Personal Project

Each section of International Baccalaureate: Primary, Middle and Diploma requires a culminating project at the end. For Primary it is an Exhibit of inquiry, Middle school students it is a personal project (with a written component), and Diploma is an extended essay and test.

The middle school students find a mentor teacher to oversee their project. It should be a subject or project of their own idea. The student project is primarily completed on their own time. The example that was provided was for students to decide their topic or guiding question during the spring of their 9th grade year.

The writing portion should be 400 words or more, but the project is primarily focused on the work. The work should also address the Area of Interaction (AoI). Students are to approach the project from this designated Area of Interaction. Sample forms of work might be a piece of art, music, original science experiment, invention, business or organizational plan, movie or photo exhibit.