1. Welcome to Extended Essay
Grade 11
Open the Edublog site / Managebac /
Start with a discussion: with an elbow partner discuss what you know about EE
On a piece of paper: write one thing you would like to find out about the EE – pin to a bulletin board
Prepare exit slips

2. What?
A 4000
word essay

3. What? Language A Physics Language B ESS Business Visual Arts History
Theatre
Geography
Music
Economics
World Studies
Maths
Biology
Chemistry

4. Why?

7. When?
First Draft of 4000 words due in June 2017 Extended Essay Symposium June 2017

8. Final essay due December 2017
When?
Final essay due December 2017

9. Choose a subject – you must be studying it (except for World Studies)
HOW?
Choose a subject – you must be studying it (except for World Studies)

10. Speak to the teacher and ask them to supervise you
HOW?
Speak to the teacher and ask them to supervise you

11. What next?
Discuss ideas for the essay with your supervisor and then write a proposal in Managebac including a ‘working research question’

12. Start your Researcher’s Reflection Space (RRS) in Managebac
What next?
Start your Researcher’s Reflection Space (RRS) in Managebac

13. Life 101 November 30th Chosen subject Met supervisor Written proposal
When?
Life 101 November 30th
Chosen subject
Met supervisor
Written proposal
One entry in RRS

14. WORLD STUDIES EXTENDED ESSAY
WHAT IS A WSEE?

15. THE AIMS OF THE IBDP WSEE IS TO:
GLOBAL
SELF
SIGNIFICANT
SENSITIVITY

16. THE WSEE GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY…
To investigate a topic that is personally meaningful connected to your interests or future plans.
To be interdisciplinary – to work in work with the terminology and concepts from 2 or more subjects – to borrow from areas of knowing
To explore topics of global and local significance
To nurture your international mindedness/global citizenship by exploring the complex problems of today:
Poverty
Digital divide
Religious upheaval
Artistic revolutions
Sustainability
Conflict

17. Focus through one of 6 Global Contexts:
Conflict, peace and security
Economic and environmental sustainability
Equality and inequality
Health and development
Language, culture and identity
Science, technology and society

18. Examples: Bio. & Geo. History & music History & economics
Film & history
Language A & psychology
Visual art & history
Geo. & Econ.

19. EXAMPLES FROM NIS:
ANALYZING TABLET USE ON YOUNG CHILDREN – PSYCHOLOGY & BIOLOGY
MEAT CONSUMPTION IN CHINA AND THE IMPACT ON GLOBAL GREEN HOUSE EMISSIONS – BIOLOGY & GEOGRAPHY
POETRY AS A PERSONAL EXPRESSION OF LIVING THROUGH GENOCIDE - HISTORY & LITERATURE

20. Where can I get help?

23. What if I am leaving?

24. Did all the questions get answered?
Check the bulletin board

25. Make an EE folder on desktop Download the EE guide
What now?
Make an EE folder on desktop
Download the EE guide
Bookmark the EE page on Edublog
Log in to EE on Managebac and find the RRS (journal), the assessment criteria and the proposal
Look at some example essays from Edublog

26. Exit slips
What would I like to be told about in the next EE session on November 30th? OR
What would I like to do in the next EE session on November 30th?