Process Journal

Overview PP

Personal Project 8 - September - 2016

Main Ideas Notes

What is the Personal Extreme Challenge

Project? Global Context
Inquiry Process
Process Journal
Personal Project • Brainstorm Ideas
Layout • Chose a topic
• Set one achievable goal
• Outcome/Product
• Global Context
• Inquiry Question
• Start the Investigation

Personal Project parts • Process Journal

• The Report (Essay)-
o Bibliography & Appendices
• The Product
• The Exhibition
o Cover Sheet, Academic Honesty Form

Process Journal • 10 extracts from the PJ will be assessed

• 10 extract will be in the Project Report:
o Your entries regarding the Investigation process,
Planning, Taking
o Action and Reflection throughout is woven into the
report.
• Cornell Notes
Initial Investigation
• Find a topic related to a problem
• Investigate the problem
• Investigate possible solutions
• Set realistic and achievable goals
• The investigation start with an Inquiry Question
• Inquiry Process
• Asking Question
Goals
 • Goal Page 12-14
• My aim is….

Dates

• Goal deadline 22 September

• Page 3-4 deadline 29 September

Process Journal
IDEAS
Idea 1: PROMOTE THE USAGE OF BICYCLE

TOPIC

What is the Topic? Topic → bicycle

PROBLEM

What is the Problem → pollution

Problem?

Problem: pollution Personal Global

• Each person affected by • Ruin the environment

this problem

Create a question If the bicycle would be used more, is the pollution reducing
for finding a or is it staying constant, and if promoting the usage of
solution to the
bicycle will the people use it more and will the condition of
problem
the environment improve?
GOAL

Goal Outcome Product

Promote the usage Organize a bicycle day A booklet on how the usage of
of bicycle experience bicycle mediate the global

The goal is to promote the usage of bicycle in order make the people use it more and make
them understand the problem of pollution, my aim is then to organize a bicycle day in Dubai
for GWA students in order to make them understand the importance of using the bicycle, I will
then promote a booklet will all the advantages of using a bicle here in dubai and in the rest of
the world.

What do I want to Respect the environments - be aware of your surroundings

learn ?

How will I achieve • I will research how the bicycle impact the environment
this goal? How • SEWA → green
will i learn it? • I will interview ecologists
• I will try to contact people to help me organise the day
• I will try to make it or in the desert or in the city maybe during a
day where the streets are closed
• Research how to make a guide, manual, booklet

GLOBAL CONTEXT

Global Globalization & Sustainability

Context
---> How local experience mediate the global
Extreme Challenge Organize the bicycle day in Dubai - Create a small booklet

What do I want to I want that my project incentivize the use of the bicycle in Dubai and in
achieve through the people
my personal
project?

What do I want I want that others understand the importance of the bicycle in the
others to environment
understand through
my work?

What impact do I I want that my project impact positively the people to use the bicycle in
want my project to Dubai and in their countries, perhaps to make them feel like to convince
have? others that the usage of bicycle is very important

Target Audience To the people who cares about the environments but in general to the
for my project kids from 5 to 70

INQUIRY STATEMENT

How can a specific context give greater purpose to my goal, If the bicycle would be promoted
more, is the pollution reducing or is it staying constant, and if organizing an eco-friendly day
with just using bicycle, will the people use it more and will the condition of the environment
improve?
BACKUP IDEA 2

Personal Project Overview

What is the problem? Topic → Promote the use of the bicycle through a comics book
within the kids

How to turn it in a question?

Problem → How do I promote the usage of bicycle through a

comic book within the kids of grade 3-4-5

Assessed Criteria Research how to make a good comic book

Research about interest of characters of Kids
Action
Developing the comic book

Why? Personal Global

• Not many people use • Low use of bicycle

bicycle • Many people use taxis, cars
• I love comics but not eco-friendly vehicles
• I love drawing
• I love bicycle

What are my • Create a comics book

objectives/goals? • Give it to the grades 3-4-5 to have feedbacks

What do I want to • I want to learn how to make a scripts, characters, storyboards

learn ? and set list of a comics

How will I achieve • To achieve my first goal I have to learn better how to make a
these goals? How will comics book I will:
i learn it? • Research in websites
• Research in youtube
• Ask to profesionist
• Read manuals
• Read books
• Participate to courses

• To achieve my second goal I just have to print 3 copies and I

will do it in a shop which is specialized into it

Global Context

Global Context Personal and cultural expression - Incentivize the use of the
bicycle throughout a comics book
Extreme Challenge Make a proper comics book*

What do I want to I want that my project incentivize the use of the bicycle in Dubai and
achieve through my in the people
personal project?

What do I want others I want that others understand the importance of the bicycle
to understand through
my work?

What impact do I want I want that my project impact positively the kids to use the bicycle in
my project to have? Dubai and in their countries, perhaps to make them feel like to
convince their parents to use the bicycle too

Target Audience for • Kids → Grade 3 - 4 - 5

my project

Topic Final Idea: Health & Fitness

TOPIC

What is the Topic → Health & Fitness

Topic?

PROBLEM

What is the Problem → The problem is that there are too many disease due to wrong
Problem? alimentation or wrong eating, and are spread out between the teenagers who
don’t care about food or a good way of eating. It could cause serious
problems and diseases such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease, just to
name a few…

Problem: Personal Global

pollution
• I’m not abused but I • In the whole world the bad
have some extra alimentation
kilos

GOAL

Goal Outcome Product

Health I will lose 4 kilos in 3 month I will create a poster/infographic were I will
(diet+running+football) show charts, information of the diet, my
plan, and the effects of my personal project
 on myself in order to motivate the others to
do the same thing

My goal for my Personal Project is to research about health and diets and how to design one
diet right for me. I want then to develop my own diet with a professional, to lose weight in
order to have a better physical performance and to prevent the diseases that run in my family
like obesity and diabetes and incorporate also physical activity. In order to obtain physical
health fitness will help me, running in the treadmill or in open places will improve my cardio
and will help me to lose weight. Moreover a sport like football in school will contribute to help
me. Then create a poster with the recording of charts, pictorial charts and all the steps of the
project in order to show the target audience, like me, the importance of a diet and a better
eating habit associated with sport in order to show the effects. .

Draft goals
• Goal is to lose weight 5 kilos in order to improve my health and physical performance.
I will create a book in order educate the people to eat well and to guide them to lose
weight.

• My goal for my Personal Project is to is to lose weight in order to have a better

physical performance and to prevent the diseases that run in my family like obesity and
diabetes. I have seen the consequences of those diseases and I’m more motivated now.
I want to develop my own diet with a professional, in order to then lose weight and
then be able to teach the other what a good way of eating is and what a way of staying
healthy is.

• My goal for my Personal Project is to research about health and diets and how to
design one diet right for me. I want then to develop my own diet with a professional, to
lose weight in order to have a better physical performance and to prevent the diseases
that run in my family like obesity and diabetes and incorporate also physical activity in
order to make muscles. Then create a poster with the recording of charts, pictorial
charts and all the steps of the diet in order to show the target audience, like me , the
importance of a diet and a better eating habit effects

What do I want I want to learn an effective way of diet which could benefit myself and
to learn ? could be a solution for teenagers.

How will I • To learn about the diseases that are caused I Will research on the
achieve this websites like
goal? How will i • WHO
learn it? • CDC
• HHS

• Football
• The couch to 5K
• STRAVA
• I will ask to a professional in Italy, in order to develop a diet
together - so I create one myself after
• I will research about opinions about diet
• Develop a theory of eating well
 What I will do
• Exercise charts
• Pictorial charts
• Measuring weight
• Pictures
• Diet steps
• Meetings with the professional nutritionist
• Machine which analyze the body accurately

Criteria

GLOBAL CONTEXT

Global Identities and Relationships

Context
--> Physical Health
Extreme Lose 4 kilos in 3 months (diet+running+football)
Challenge

What do I want I want to lose weight in first place and I want to learn how I can eat
to achieve well/healthy
through my
personal
project?

What do I want I want others to understand about the importance of a good physical health
others to and how can a different type of diet change their way of eating
understand
through my
work?

What impact do I want that my project impact positively the people to follow a diet, or just
I want my follow the theory that I will provide my audience in order to improve their
project to have? quality of health of eating.

Target Audience The people who cares about the their personal health and the people who
for my project wants/need to lose weight

INQUIRY STATEMENT

What if a way to eat better is introduce in the life of a person, will that help him to lose weight
and to decrease the probability to have diseases linked to food and what if teaching others how
to eat well, will help our world society to be more health and to introduce a better food
culture?
Reflections

Date: 05/10/2016

Date: 25 August 2016

ATL categories Reflection

• Thinking Brainstorming
• Social Today I came up with 3 different ideas which I developed above. I
• Communication started to gather all the idea that I had in mind and at the end I developed
• Research 3 ideas. I started to develop ideas on the topic of bicycle, my topic was to
• Self-Management develop the usage of bicycle. My first option was to make a comics book
about the bicycle but what I have a doubt was the topic of it: is it to
promote the bicycle or is it to learn how to create a comics? How can I
develop every point (Global Context, Problem, Goal)? So I tried to think
about other options and I came up with promoting the bicycle by
influencing the people to use the bicycle more in Dubai and other places.
The doubt in here was that in dubai using the bicycle is rare and difficult,
so I have to ask Ms. XX (PP coordinator) if it is duable. My last topic
wis health and fitness which is really personal to me and it is possible to
develop in each point. It is a combination of diets and sports. I still need
to have the project approved and I have a few question to ask when I
came back to school, like “How can I write a goal?”, “What is the Global
Context?”. Just to be prepared I will soon go to see specialist nutritionist
which will analyze me and will tell me what to improve.

Thinking: brainstorm ideas for my personal project and come up with 3

choices.

Date: 27 August 2016

ATL categories Reflection

• Thinking Today I had a meeting with my nutritionist. She talked me about why is
• Social important losing weight, introducing me in the “world of health”. She
• Communication explained to me the theory about a diet and how the body works, what
• Research we feel as “hungry” it is just that the body requires sugar, because we
• Self-Management are use to eat a lot it and our organism send message to the brain which it
read it as “being hungry”. After a bit of theory with a machine she
analyzed my body and she made me those charts below.
 :::::::::: Normal
:::::::::: Out of Normal
:::::::::: Really deviated

Communication: talk personally to a specialist

Research: gather data

Date: 1 October 2016

ATL categories Reflection

 • Thinking I chose as my topic “HEALTH & FITNESS” because it something really
• Social personal to me and it is an issue that affect me and the entire world.
• Communication
• Research Goal Achievement
• Self-Management Due to my weight and height right now, I shouldn’t be 60kg but 55 and
less. I would need to lose ‘just’ 5 kq to have the best fit between height
and weight, so my goal, as i stated, will be to lose 4 kilos, in order to
have a good health and prevent any diseases. Before the start of a diet to
lose weight is fundamental to know why there are certain association
between the types of food, so befor put the diet in practice, I need to
research about the theory. From the theory, the results I will obtain from
the project and the specialist where I am going to, I will be able to
complete my goal of the project. It is totally achievable and with hard
work I can have my outcome and my product done for the final
deadline.

Thinking: think about if my goal is achievable

Research: Research if my goal is achievable→ expert and internet

Date: 12 October 2016

ATL categories Reflection

• Thinking Today I met for the first time with my supervisor which is Mr. XY. I
• Social came to him at lunchtime to discuss about my PP proposal. I told him
• Communication that my project was about a diet and to lose weight. He suggest me that if
• Research I want to something good and complete I have to incorporate fitness. So I
• Self-Management change my topic from Health to Health & Fitness. My project is then
became a combination of diet and fitness, I will have a diet from a
specialist, then I will do sports like soccer and tennis in school. Since I
live in Jumeirah Heights I’m really close to Jumeirah Islands and I have
the possibility to go and run and biking so Mr. XY suggested me the
application named Strava which record the running/cycling and give
statistics, which will help me to create my infographic at the end of the
project .

Communication: talk face to face with my supervisor