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Federal Hocking 6th Graders Bring the World to Stewart, Ohio Stewart, Ohio 24 May 2007 Still can't afford that get-a-way to Fiji you always dreamed of? How about the Bahama Islands or the green rolling hills of Ireland? If you attended the 6th grade International Fair at Federal Hocking Middle School, you could have taken a virtual tour of all three countries, and many more! Students in Ms. Markovich's 6th grade class brought the world to Stewart, Ohio on Thursday, May 24 for Federal Hocking Middle School's annual International Fair. This social studies project required each student to select a country to study, and then to share what he or she had learned with others by creating a display. Displays included a tourist brochure, political and geographical maps, a 3-D representation of something you might see when you visited the country, and edible samples of a food representative of the country. Federal Hocking 6th grader Caleb says that the television show "Fiji Survivor" inspired him to choose Fiji for his project. He learned about The Republic of the Fiji Islands in more detail from internet resources. He served a coconut confection to give visitors to his booth a taste of this South Pacific nation.  Photo published with parental permission. Another 6th grader chose to study Ireland because her family boasts Irish origins and also because she loves horses. She says that the Irish raise horses for show and for use in recreational sports like fox-hunting. Her 3-D depiction of Ireland clearly represents her vision of Ireland as a beautiful country, and she says she would like to visit there some day. 
According to Ohio Academic Content Standards, 6th grade social studies students should be able to place countries, cities, deserts, mountain ranges and bodies of water on the continents on which they are located and to compare the cultural products and practices of societies studied, as well as to complete a research project using different kinds of sources. Student projects at the International Fair demonstrated these and many other skills, including some good cooking, as the photograph below (Iceland project) illustrates! 
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