To participate in this
category, students must work alongside two
or more students from a school in another
country to investigate and research a
problem, issue, condition, or historical
event, then determine action(s) that could
be taken to improve a mutual problem or
current global issue.
Students must consider a variety of
perspectives in addition to their own and
those of their counterparts, then determine
how to communicate those perspectives
through an oral presentation with the help
of a project display board and/or multimedia
presentation.
Students who choose to
study a historical event should consider
proposing alternative actions that could
have been taken in the past to improve the
outcome of the event they are studying.
Projects in this category
are not limited to the fair's 9 social
science categories. Possible topics
might include (but are not limited to):
1.
Threats of Climate Change on Their Own
Regions
2.
Environmental Sustainability
3.
Energy Production
4. Use and Abuse
5. Pollution
6. Population Growth
7. Global Poverty
8. Migration (Immigration and
Emigration, Legal and Illegal)
9.
Global Conflict and Cooperation (e.g.,
Peaceful Conflict Resolution)
10.
Human
Rights issues
11.
Water
12.
Desertification
13.
Urban Sprawl
14.
Unemployment
15.
Political Issues
Winning students will send
medals and/or ribbons to their foreign
counterparts.
ThinkQuest
One of the best platforms
for international collaboration is
ThinkQuest, an online learning platform
that provides a variety of useful
collaborative learning tools. Many
schools subscribe to
ThinkQuest. Students who are
interested in using
ThinkQuest for their International
project should contact a teacher or county
technology specialist for assistance.
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