Objectives

Objective A

Define a clear goal and global context for the project, based on personal interests

The amount of sleep teenagers on average get versus the amount of sleep teens should get and how this correlates to grades and work and what to do it fix it.

Identify prior learning and subject-specific knowledge relevant for the project

Teenagers are generally known for not getting enough sleep. The average amount of sleep that teenagers is between 7 and 7¼ hours. Teens generally need 9 to 9½ hours of sleep but they don't tend to get that amount. The main reasons why teenagers don't get much sleep is a shift in sleep schedule, early high school starting times, and social and school obligations. for the first one I listed, after puberty there is a biological shift in teenagers’ internal clock of around 2 hours. what this means is that a teenager who used to fall asleep at 9:00 PM will not be able to fall asleep until 11:00 PM. this also means that teenagers will wake up two hours later in the morning. the next reason why teenagers don't get enough sleep is because of high school starting times. in most school districts the switch to high school is accompanied by an earlier start time. at Lamar school starts at 8:30 but if you have sports you have to get there much earlier. for example, for me I have to wake up between 5:30 two 6:30 on days where I have swimming in the morning. this is a really big struggle for me because it's hard for me to wake up early. as the day continues on, I get a lot drowsier and when I get home, I have to take it two to three-hour nap just so I can get back to the same energy level. For other people it may be worse if they live farther out or if they have in earlier time for sports and such. before COVID was a thing, teachers had tutorials early in the morning. this meant students ha

Objective B

Develop criteria (steps) to achieve the product/outcome-meaning the goal you set during the investigation objective turned in last month. This may involve developing a proposal for action to serve th

For my personal project there are four steps for what we need to do to complete it. Step one is to research what we're going to fix which is the amount of sleep teens get any effect on their daily life. The second step is two thread awareness of what needs fixing and the third step is to get approval of what needs to be fixed. The final step is for action to happen. This step is where after all we've researched and to spread awareness about, we finally have physical change happening. For my personal project the physical change would be to have less homework, have shortest school periods, and two possibly get rid of one day of school. So far I have done the first step where I have researched about teens sleep and affects that the amount of sleep I have on their day. Overbreak, I will be starting my website to spread awareness about the amount of sleep teens should have and how the school system drains too much energy from them. My next step will be to talk to people who work at my school to try to fix this problem and talk to them about the problem. I will try to get their approval and possibly go to HISD administrators. That part will be extremely crucial because we will be about to go into the physical stage or the fourth stage where something is actually done. In the fourth stage I will try to make it mandatory that students have less than two hours of homework for all classes for one day.

Plan and record the development process of the project (collaboration and organization are critical at this)

The plan in development of stage 2 will be to make a website but I will eventually show the administrators of my school and the administrators of HISD. I will have all the information about why schools should have less homework and the reasons to support it. I am planning on using wix.com to make my website or to have my own domain to talk about this issue. I will most likely have multiple slides or pages on the website to talk about different problems and solutions for those problems. I also will most likely compare my school times to other schools around the world if they have less school time and to see the positive and negative effects of more school, less school, more homework, less homework. While I'm making this over winter break, I'll be recording what I'm doing every time I work on it and it will show progress. I will have another page on my site that will talk about the websites I've used to find this research and where I have cited my sources.

Demonstrate self-management skills (you are the one in charge. how will you management the responsibilities of your Personal Project in order to achieve the desired outcome?)

I will manage my responsibilities by staying on task. That is not very specific but what I will basically do is that I will work on portions every day also I don't get tired and bored of it because this is a big project.

Objective C

Describe how you created a product/outcome in response to the goal, global context and criteria you established for your Personal Project.

I created a product/outcome by making a website to talk about how the amount of sleep affects teenagers and what to do to fix that. I also talked about what schools should do for better effectiveness in teaching like getting rid of one day during the weekday because that is proven/shown that kids have higher grades and that kids are more well rested. I created website to inform the public and to inform many people about what is happening and how to fix it. This year alone 42% of Kids in my district are failing their classes and I believe that is subject to online school and how many hours of homework they have per night. Someone did a survey that said that sophomores in previous years had much less homework than sophomores during the pandemic situation. The criteria established from a personal project was based off of many medical websites and was based off surveys that students answered.

Demonstrate thinking skills (describe how and why you made certain choices along the way to reaching your goal).

Some certain choices I made along the road was that I've made a website which seems like it would be above and beyond then a PowerPoint or other similar things like that because with the website anybody can access it and it is information that is available and it is all in one area. Along the way to reaching my goal some choices that I made were that I had separate small pages in my website where each subdomain talked about different things and different topics like one topic is what schools should do to help kids and teenagers with sleep and another topic was The amount of sleep teenagers normally get. I also included a bibliography Westside my sources on a separate sub domain and I did that, so my website is creditable, and it is accurate. I made my website have a good look to it, so it was appeasing.

Demonstrate communication and social skills (This step was absolutely critical to achieving your goal! Various methods were certainly used to bring together the people you were trying to impact with

In my project I tried to make my audience be teachers or people of that age and people who can have an impact on the education system. I remember that in my middle school in 8th grade we were supposed to not have any homework because the principle thought it was not necessary and it was actually a negative effect on kids. Sadly we did have homework in 8th grade because the district did not allow for us to not have any homework. My website also is directed towards kids who can have an impact on their school and who can change the way The United States education system works. I want to impact the teachers and people who can affect what I talked about in a good way and in a way so they can be open minded on the way students feel and the way students deal with stress at school and so they can see everything from the students point of view.

Objective D

evaluate the quality of the product/outcome against their criteria

I would say that the quality of my work is very minimal. I decided to procrastinate my work very late and I did not stick to the schedule that I wanted to be on. As of right now I am doing this today that it is do which is not something I wanted to do. I think that in the end I produced a very good explanation on my third page which ended up being better than I thought where I had several different points.

reflect on how completing the project has extended their knowledge and understanding of the topic and the global context

Completing the project has expanded my knowledge and understanding of this topic and my global Contacts because name realize how some countries have very poor education systems like the US Meanwhile some have very good education systems like Germany. It made me realize that mini students in high school are overworked and where they should be where they have less sleep they have more homework than what they should have aimed they also are completely wired differently than adults. This relates to my global context because there are districts in The United education system like mine where it is it own system compared to the United states education system. There is a major impact on decision making in the education system between Germany and between the United states where they have more sleep less homework and they get better grades while in the United states we have more homework more sleeper and worse grades. It seems like it would be counter intuitive but it's actually not. Minot has extended to where I know how most kids feel about how much homework they get and how much sleep they get. I now can see the effects of this on so many children.

reflect on their development as IB learners through the project.

I think that my development as an IB learner has change so much. I am not much of a risk taker anymore at more of a knowledgeable IB learner trait I think that after doing this project my research and my change in how it work and currently I'm changing my current lifestyle so I read more get more sleep and so I get my work done more efficiently. I really believe that in the beginning my development went down because I got consumed by my computer and by video games and such but currently this year I am working on bettering myself by working out and by being more social with my family and friends.

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