Criterion B: Investigating
Maximum: 8
Students should be able to:
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choose a topic to research
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follow a simple action plan to investigate a research question
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use methods accurately to collect and record information consistent with the research question
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answer the research question.
Achievement level
0
1–2
3–4
5–6
7–8
Level descriptor
The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors below.
The student:
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chooses a topic to research
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makes a limited attempt to follow a simple plan to answer a research question
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makes a limited attempt to collect and record information
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makes a limited attempt to answer the research question.
The student:
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chooses a topic to research
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partially follows a simple plan to answer a research question
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uses a method or methods to collect and record some information in line with the
question
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partially answers the question.
The
student:
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chooses a topic to research
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satisfactorily follows a simple plan to answer a research question
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uses methods to collect and record appropriate information in line with the research
question
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satisfactorily answers the question.
The
student:
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chooses a topic to research
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follows a simple plan completely to answer a research question
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uses methods accurately to collect and record appropriate
information in line with the research question
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completely answers the question.
Command term and MYP definition
Use
Apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice
Task instructions:
Students will choose an event in European history. You will create an annotated (supplied with or containing explanatory notes,
textual comments, etc.: an annotated edition of Milton's poetry) multi-flow map showing what caused your chosen event to
happen and then what happened because that event took place. In other words what are the consequences of the event?
Topics to choose from
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Thanks
Renaissanceo art, architecture, science, printing press, Johannes Gutenberg, rise of the middle class, Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci,
Reformationo Martin Luther, anti reformation, development of Protestantism, Henry VIII
The Age of Enlightenment
Scientific Revolutiono Galileo, Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Madam Curie,
The French RevolutionLouis XVI, Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte
Age of Exploration,
o Christopher Columbus, De Gama, Sir Walter Raleigh, Elizabeth I, John Cabot, Prince Henry the Navigator,
Ponce de Leon, Columbian Exchange
Colonialism
Industrial Revolution
Peter the Great
Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin,
World War I, weaponry, airplane in battle, trench warfare, Treaty of Versailles,
World War II, holocaust,
Cold War, The Wall, Divided Germany,
Collapse of Eastern Europe
Formation of the European Union