CAS - IB program
An informative website for current or future IB students or other interested people
Made by IB Students from the Gymnasium am Münsterplatz
What is CAS?
CAS is one out of three core competences an IB student must complete and pass in order to complete the IB program (the other two are the Extended Essay and Theory of Knowledge). It stands for Creativity, Activity, and Service and is done outside of regular school hours and lasts 18 months. You document “experiences” for every one of those three. The goal is to provide evidence for the completion of CAS by achieving the 7 learning outcomes provided by the IB. Every learning outcome has to be completed at least once. CAS is not graded, but involvement and commitment must be shown by the student since it is a pass or fail system.
The Different Strands of CAS
These so-called experiences of CAS are categorized into the three strands creativity, activity, and service.
An experience can be a part of more than one of these activity types.
Creativity
Experiences that involve creative thinking and lead to an original or interpretive product or performance.
For example: filming/videos, photography, drawing, painting, designing, DIY projects, baking/cooking, and sometimes even BG (Art class in school)
Activity
Experiences that involve physical movement and exertion and contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
For example: a sport in a club, exercising in general, going to the gym, cycling to school, going for walks with the dog, or Wahlfachsport in school.
Service
Unpaid voluntary services to individuals or a community helping with an authentic need.
For example: unpaid tutoring, donating blood, financial donations from baking sells, sending christmas cards to retirement homes, or the SIP (Schülerparlament).
Are you still lost?
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