Guidelines and tips for selecting objects:
- Objects should be connected to you or that you understand well: specific (not generic) things that you have encountered in school or in your life beyond the classroom. This connection will keep your assignment original and prove your engagement with TOK.
- Objects can be digital, such as a photograph of an object or a Tweet or a particular article. The source of an object must always be referenced!
- Objects can be physical, or even something you have created, such as a piece of writing or a work of art (but do not create something for this assignment.) Take a picture of the object to include in the assignment. As with above, the source of the object must always be referenced, even if it is an object of your own creation!
- In selecting objects for a particular IA prompt, it may be helpful to think about the objects as curated for a museum exhibition: The object is the means through which the question prompt is explored.
- It may also be helpful to think about what objects have changed or shaped you as a knower.
- Objects should NOT relate to the prompt in the same way; in fact, the more different the objects, the more ways you will be exploring the prompt and the more interesting your IA will be.
- Avoid choosing objects that require so much explanation that they risk ignoring the TOK aspects of the assignment.
