Some ideas for each Grade for the 2020 PAT. The Grade 11 and 12 PAT’s each requires the Learner to select a project as part of their investigation; many are finding this difficult.
Grade 12
Topic: Volunteer Opportunities
Project ideas
- Animal welfare
- Alien vegetation control
- Hunger-relief food parcel delivery
- Beach safety (NSRI, Shark Watchers)
- Security/neighbourhood watch
- Combatting homelessness
- Wildfire management
- Ocean / Waterways & beach clean-ups
- Addressing Education Inequality
Grade 11
Topic: “Online collaboration tools for working together”
The 2020 PAT requires Grade 11’s to investigate the use of online collaborative tools to work productively as a team. Many Learners are battling with the “double” nature of the topic: it is easy to investigate online collaborative tools, but not so easy to come up with a suitable project.
Project ideas
We have discussed several projects around the following concepts:
- Animal welfare
- Alien vegetation control
- Event planning
- Hunger-relief food parcel delivery
- Security/neighbourhood watch
- Trading surplus homegrown fresh produce
- Distance learning
Online collaborative tools
- Communication
- Telegram
- Video conferencing
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Microsoft Teams
- Messenger Rooms
- Mapping
- Google Maps
- Image sharing
- Documents
- Google Docs, Google Sheets
- Microsoft OneNote
- Document/information management & sharing
- Google Drive
- WorkPlace from Facebook
- Dropbox
- Microsoft OneDrive
- WordPress site
- Online project management
Grade 10
Topic: Digital Footprint
What an amazing topic! I am encouraging my students to Google-stalk themselves to see what turns up. I am also suggesting they start nurturing their online presence to build it into something positive and useful in the future.
