Report on  your Action Project

 
The Report is NOT part of your Project. When you have finished your Project and presented it in a scrap-book, poster display or video presentation, you can look back on what you have done, and what you have learnt, and ONLY THEN write up your Report in the booklet provided by the School.

Your Report will be in five parts:

1- Title – 3 marks (1 page)

The title should give a clear idea of the action that has been taken. Include the key concept the project is related to and the main activity you undertook: e.g., ‘A questionnaire on people’s attitudes to asylum seekers in my area’.

2- Introduction – 7 marks (1 page)

Give three reasons why you chose this particular Action Project.  Explain which key concept the project is linked
  to, and the class it arose from in CSPE.

3- Activities – 40 marks (3
  pages)

Page 1 (10 marks)
You should list and briefly & clearly
  describe all the different activities done by the whole group.

Page 2
  (15 marks)
Give a detailed account of ONE particular task which you started
  and finished.

Page 3 (15 marks)
Identify the different skills which
  you used in doing this task, giving a detailed account of at least two. The
  skills areas are Identification, Analysis, Communication and Action.



4. Summary of Action Project – 20 marks (1 page)

In the
  Summary, you should outline what sort of facts and information you found out
  about the topic of the Project.

You can include a presentation like a
  graph etc, from your Project.

Include the findings of ALL the
  group.


5. Conclusion – 20 marks (1 page)

The conclusion
should  reflect your own views about the Action Project.

Give reasons
for  arriving at this conclusion.

Make sure that your views reflect the
Human  Rights and Social Responsibility dimensions of CSPE.

Explain how
what  you have learned could change you for the future, particularly the way you
might  act.



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Skills






You should use the Project to practice the following
  skills:

IDENTIFICATION/AWARENESS

Skills which help you to
collect  information
- Letter writing, telephone calls
- Using computers,
sending  e-mail
- Surveying, asking questions,
  interviewing

ANALYSIS/EVALUATION

Being able to use the
information  you collect
- Collating, sorting
- Analysing
-
Evaluating

COMMUNICATION

Practicing & developing the skills of
  communication
- Reflection
- Group participation, discussion,
  debating
- Designing, planning, presenting, publishing, reporting
- Role
  play, acting, miming
- Listening

ACTION SKILLS

Being able to
do  something about what you believe in
- Political skills, like voting,
decision  making, debating, leadership
- Social skills, like hosting,
liaising,  negotiating
- Other skills, like fundraising,
budgeting