IB skill practice

Balance creativity, activity, and service in CAS planning

CAS practice that supports authentic student-owned planning, purposeful action, evidence collection, reflection, learning-outcome thinking, project collaboration, review, and portfolio preparation without inventing outcomes or writing final reflections.

CAS portfolio 5 marks Difficulty 3

CAS practice: Balance creativity, activity, and service in CAS planning

A student is balancing creativity, activity, and service while planning the CAS experience "starting a lunchtime walking club for Year 11 students during exam season". Choose the route that keeps the strands natural rather than forced. Select the balance focus, strand mix, balance move, and overload check. Then answer this in your own words: why would this route keep the CAS evidence and reflection authentic? AI will analyse your reasoning, evidence, reflection quality, and expression.

Worked practice: build the reflection

Work through the CAS task: purpose focus, specific evidence, the CAS move, then a bounded reflection.