Social Studies

• Against Scholar Dropout -A place for students, parents, teachers and others responsible for education to think about the main problems in education.
• Ancestor Photographs Project - Create a world of past times making them as close to the contemporaries as possible.
• Architecture and Living Spaces - Student research the architecture and history of the houses, buildings and monuments of their town.
• Atlas de la Diversidad - A multi-media database of cultural products, created by the students, as the outcome of their learning.
• Backtalk Journal: International News Magazine - Students participate by contributing interviews of people, who play some kind of leadership role in service to sustainable development, for publication .
• Breaking the Silence - This project serves to raise awareness of issues pertaining to disease prevention in adolescents.
• Breaking the Silence:The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Project - Joining together in a serious examination of the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TST).
• Bullying Project - A collaborative attempt to address the issues of bullying, teasing and school violence.
• Celebrations and Mournings - A project to  collect  statements, pictures, poems  and  stories  from children and their teachers about what they do when they are happy or sad.
• Child Labour Project - Youth collaboration in research and awareness-raising on the issues of child labour and exploitation.
• Child Soldier Project - This is a project where youth can bear witness to the issue of the child soldier and how it affects their lives, their families, their communities and their countries.
• Cities Near the Sea - Learning and working together by students on cross curricular themes, related to the ‘city near the sea’ they live in.
• Civil Rights and Social Movements - Links classrooms together to share coordinated activities, resources and community stories on the issues of human rights, social justice, and people's movements.
• Connecting Cultures Project - Promotion of a Culture of Peace: While helping students from different parts of the world understand their common bond and linkages.
• Corruption - Students share their opinion about corruption in their countries.
• Crossing Boundaries-Youth in Dialogue Project - A project linking youth groups across nations and continents to learn from one another ways of empowering themselves to promote the rights of children.
• Cultural Corner for Learners of English - Learners of English around the world engage in an  exchange about their cultural interests.
• Doors to Peace (Puertas Para la Paz) - Exchange, reflection and activities which contribute to modifying the local and global reality in order to achieve a culture based on peace.
• Dream School Theater - Students in classrooms around the world share their culture at the series of video conferencings.
• Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger - A global education initiative to raise awareness of hunger, malnutrition and food security around the world.
• Future Citizen Project - A project focused on children's rights and duties, tolerance and freedom, civic responsibilities and engagement.
• Fight Against Drugs - Provides an opportunity for youth to share their views, research the ill-effects of various drugs, and come up with solutions.
• Get to Know Others - An educational endavour to give students the chance to learn about their own culture as well as other cultures.
• Give Us Wings to Fly - An exchange of how students spend their vacations.
• Global Leap: The Videoconferencing in the Classroom - Opportunities to learn about the lives and challenges of young people in different areas of the world, and a resource for teachers to develop videoconferencing in the curriculum.
• Global Teenager Project - A project involving certain countries in Learning Circles.
• GoPlanet - Classes from across the world play the game of Go, exchanging moves through email or playing online. Students improve their academic skills in a pleasurable way, learn about each others' culture and become true friends.
• Good Deeds Project - Share with us, in regular basis, a simple good deed (s) you have achieved, showing the details and motives behind this act.
• Here at Home - Students do in-depth research of cultural aspects of their local community, create a web site showing what their world is like "here at home," and respond to web sites created by their global partners.
• HIV/AIDS: Beyond My Own Backyard - A collaborative, web based project that aims to create more insight in the way young people/peers think about AIDS.
• A Hundred Years Ago and Now - What do you know about the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and what part of your country belonged to it?
• International Teen Scrapbook - This global scrapbook will reflect the culture, lives, and concerns of teens around the world.
• Kindness Can Change the World - If we are kind to each other, we'll be able to change the world!
• Kindred Project - This project challenges people to explore their family heritage!
• Local History Project - Students reseach and share the history of their own town or area, and learn from the findings of the peers in other parts of the world.
• Machinto Project - Participants research what kind of wars have taken place after Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and learn about a little bird still crying somewhere in the world.
• The Many Faces of Poverty and Homelessness - Collaborate and connect with students and teachers in local, national and global communities to examine the issues of poverty and homelessness by utilizing a variety of digital technologies.
• MDG's - Only with Your Voice - Creating awareness about the Millenium Development Goals among the youth.
• Mission SLYIA - Discussions and articles from Tamil, Muslim, and Sinhalese youth in Sri Lanka and abroad.
• Model United Nations (MUN) - Students network with each and with schools in the countries they are representing at Model United Nations conferences around the world.
• My Country - Students can participate by writing, drawing or sending pictures about population, surface, culture, agriculture, industry, economy, and environment.
• My Dream World - A warm and open place
  for all students to share their ideas about their ideal world.
• My School, Your School - Students will compare school life in different parts of the world.
• My Talented Coeval - Students share positive stories about their contemporaries around the world.
• Natural Disaster Youth Summit - A project in which children will learn the importance of human lives and how to survive from Natural Disasters with students who have experienced earthquakes and other disasters. 
• Operation H.O.P.E. - Operation H.O.P.E. links countries who need help in times of crisis with other schools around the world who want to help and build long-term relationships them. Send letters, poems, drawings, comfort quilts, books, photos to the countries in need. People, especially children dealing with crisis need to know that THEY ARE NOT ALONE!
• Outstanding Persons of Armenian Diaspora - The participants of this project write essays about outstanding persons in the field of science, culture, art, literature etc.
• Peace and Justice Project - We want to show war never is a good basis for peace.
• PEARL - Prepare and Educate Aspiring Reporters for Leadership Project - A global news service run by students (in partnership with the Daniel Pearl Foundation).
• Reach Your Peak - Aims to educate students about how youth around the world are reaching their own peaks and potential.
• RESPECT and Refugees Project - Students will develop an awareness of refugee populations and the issues that they face. This will facilitate support for refugees worldwide.
• Students Unlimited- A collaborative online community service project.
• The Third Generation - Students share their feelings and views about old age.
• Think, Act, MDGs Project - A project of a virtual consulting center for young people willing to make a difference by taking an action.
• Time Machine Project - Students research an event in the past that occurred on the date of their birthday.
• Tours around the World - Students research interesting routes of their cities, villages, countries, write essays, draw, paint, take photos to attract attention to the places in which they live.
• Travel Project - Students share their travelling experiences, and give advice to others concerning preparation and travel.
• Understanding our Similarities through Religious Belief - A project designed to highlight the points of similarity among religions.
• Value of Money - This projects aims to help develop personal understanding that money has a lot of value, by not only writing essays, but playing virtual games, having real life experience with handling money and using it in a proper way.
• Voyage: Volunteer of Youth Age - In this world what we really need is not cruel wars or hostile conflicts but care and concern for people. Youth can make miracle, and Volunteers Of Youth can create a brand-new world full of love, concern, understanding and cooperation. This is the Age of Volunteers of Youth when teachers and students can explore better ways and offer their helping hands to others.
• We Are Contemporaries - Let us share precious memories of our young years, former and present inhabitants of the Country of Childhood!
• We Are Teenagers - Project allows young people to learn about popular fascinations of their peers and choose possible new hobbies for themselves.
• We Remember - A forum devoted to learning about the Holocaust. Currently, the primary project activity is the “Kamarad 23” project, a unique creative way of learning about the Holocaust by creating the continuation of a youth magazine, “Kamarad” (Friend”), that was written in Ghetto Terezin (Theresienstadt)
• Women in My Country - A comparison of the social and political status of women worldwide, as well as an exchange of information about "outstanding" women in all fields.
• World We Live In (WWLi) - Everyone has it's own world, world connecting with others personal worlds, but in the same time living alone, inside of you. Please describe it.
• Year 1945 Project - You are a news reporter who will investigate an issue from your country and publish a page which appears to be from a 1945 newspaper to share globally.

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