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HKUGAC
S3 Humanities
Inter-disciplinary Project 3

Human Major Achievements since 19
th
Century

1. Introduction
This project may focus on the human achievements which bring about
contributions to the progress of modern civilization in terms of
international relationships, economic development and environmental
conservation since 19
th
Century. With the inputs delivered by teachers
from History, Geography and Business Studies in lessons, you may work
with group mates to investigate one human achievement that you consider
as historically, geographically or economically meaningful to the
worldwide population. It could be an international organization, a treaty /
protocol, a scientific invention, an economic system or policy, etc. A
more detailed list of examples is shown below:

Category Examples Basic information
International
relationships/History
United Nations To promote and facilitate cooperation
in international law, international
security, economic development,
social progress, human rights, civil
rights, civil liberties, political
freedoms, democracy and
achievement of lasting world peace

Economic World Trade
Organization
To supervise and liberalize
international trade between different
countries

International Monetary
Fund
To assist in the reconstruction of the
worlds international payment system
post-World War II.

Environmental /
geographical
Renewable energy
technologies
(more specific)
The technology to generate energy
from resources which are continually
replenished such as sunlight, wind,
rain, tides, waves and geothermal
heat. It aims at catering for the
existing populations use without
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compromising the needs of future
generations.

World Wide Fund for
Nature
An international non-governmental
organization (NGO) to halt and
reverse the destruction of environment

Health Influenza Vaccination To protect against the highly variable
influenza virus


2. Schedule of Project
Stage Cycle Objective Details
1 8 Introduction of project
(1 lesson)
Research in Computer
Lab (1 lesson)
To introduce the guideline of
project
To rearrange the grouping of
students
To formulate the topic of
project with group members
2 9 Research in Computer
Lab (2 lessons)
To research the information of
the selected achievement and
prepare for the presentation
3 10 Presentation (4 lessons) Presentation


3. Assessment
1. Presentation (10 mins) + Q & A (5 mins)
2. Information Sheet (500 words)


4. Presentation Guideline (total marks: 50 marks)
In your powerpoint, you should consider the following criteria:
Criteria Marks
1. Background information of the achievement, such as:
Objective, scale (people, nations, etc), the problems
they attempted to solve, category (international
relationships, environmental protection, economic
development)
5
2. Effectiveness of the achievement (need to show some
data / evidence to illustrate the differences between
before and after the achievement being formed)
10

5
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3. Limitations of the achievement (what problems still
remain unsolved or what new problems emerged
because of the achievement)
10
4. Offers additional perspectives: includes other
perspectives that go beyond the field of the
achievement researched
5
5. Suggestions to improve the effectiveness of the
achievement, such as:
- To extend the coverage of the policy
- To add new conditions in order to solve the new
problems emerged

10
6. Organization of data and structure of presentation 5
7. Equal allocation of work 5


5. Information Sheet Guideline (10 marks) individual marks
The content of the information sheet can mainly base on the presentation
powerpoint, but the part(s) prepared by each student need to be stated
clearly as the individual marks would be given for each students.


6. Grouping
Each group should have 3 to 4 students, each class could be split into
around 8 groups.

7. Deadline
Due Date: 23/5 (Day A, Thursday). Presentation order will be decided
later.
Submission: Powerpoint Slide and Information Sheet (both hard and
soft copies, send copies should be sent to your THREE humanities
teachers)