Eighth Grade Research Project - Ada Merritt K
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Middle Years Programme
Eighth Grade Orientation
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Guiding Question
How will MYP experiences
help me in the future?
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Eighth Grade Assembly
October 4, 2013
Interdisciplinary Unit Presentation
8th Grade Culminating Project
High School Fair
Eighth Grade Exams
MYP Requirements
Student Code of Conduct
End of the Year Activities
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
What is the 8th Grade
Culminating Project?
The MYP Culminating Project is an independent project. It will be
completed at home with guidance from a mentor and your MYP
Technology teacher.
It is a great opportunity to:
learn about a topic that interests you
apply the skills you have developed while participating in the
Middle Years Programme at Ada Merritt K-8 Center in all your
subjects and through Approaches to Learning
develop and showcase talents and interests that you may
have and apply them to a chosen goal
apply your knowledge of the Design Cycle.
What your 8th Grade
Culminating Project Must:
Have a clear and achievable goal
Allow you to express a truly personal message
Be the result of your initiative, creativity, and ability to
organize and plan
Reflect your special interests, hobbies, special
abilities, or concerns about particular issues
Connect to the Community and Service Area of
Interaction
What your 8th Grade
Culminating Project must:
Deal with a topic or area to which you are committed
and which has an impact on your community
Generate a product that connects to one of the MYP
subject areas
Be mentored by an advisor who is an expert in the
field (instructor approval is required)
Be of grade level appropriate scope and quality
Be entirely your own work—authenticity is very
important and you will be required to sign a
document stating that the project is your own work.
What are the required components of
the 8th Grade Culminating Project?
A Design Folder detailing your work through
all the phases of the Design Cycle
A product
A presentation of the project with visual aids
A personal statement
Remember: successful completion of all components will be required
to qualify for the Ada Merritt K-8 Center IB Certificate and Pin.
How will it be graded?
Your Design Folder will be graded using the Technology
assessment criteria.
The various phases of the Design Cycle will each receive
a grade.
Your final product will be graded using MYP criteria for
the relevant subject(s)
Your presentation/personal statement will be evaluated
using a project rubric
Successful completion of the project will be required to
qualify for the Ada Merritt K-8 Center IB Certificate and
Pin.
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
High School Fairs
October 24, 2013, from 8:45 am to 10:00 am
Confirmed to attend:
Coral Gables Senior High School
International Studies Prep Academy- ISPA
Miami Beach Senior High School
Miami Senior High School
Iprep
Young Women’s Prep Academy
Invited:
Young Men’s Prep Academy
International Studies Charter High School- ISCHS
New World School of the Arts
Terra
Declined invitation: Coral Reef High School, MAST Academy, Dash. Check
those schools’ website for orientation dates
Applications due January 15, 2014
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Eighth Grade Exams
Algebra 1 End of Course Exam (May 2014)
Geometry End of Course Exam (May 2014)
FCAT in Writing, Science and Reading
(April 2014)
Spanish Language AP Exam (May6,
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
2014)
Eighth Grade Requirements
To receive an Eighth Grade Certificate of
Promotion students must pass all Middle School
core classes.
To receive an Ada Merritt K-8 Center International
Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP)
Certificate and Pin students must meet the
following criteria:
a GPA of 2.5 or higher in all Academic Courses and in
conduct
a minimum of 40 hours of Community and Service: 10
in grades 6 and 7, 20 in grade 8. All Service Record
forms must be submitted before May 17, 2013
a satisfactory eighth grade research project
a complete MYP portfolio.
Student Code of Conduct
End of the Year Activities
Eighth Grade Field Trip
Dinner/Dance
End of the Year Awards
Program
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Eighth Grade Orientation
October 4, 2013
The direction in which education starts
a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
Ada Merritt K-8 Center