These materials are designed to help students build knowledge, examples, and confidence before the Bangkok Pilot Event. Students are not expected to memorise everything. The aim is to understand major ideas, discuss them thoughtfully, and practise using evidence in written and spoken responses.
Read and watch a small number of resources across the theme. Focus on useful examples, not memorising facts.
Use the guiding questions to practise explaining your views, listening to others, and developing stronger arguments.
Collect examples from history, geography, economics, politics, society, and current affairs that could support your ideas.
The theme “A Changing World” explores how societies, economies, environments, technologies, and cultures have evolved over time. Students should consider the causes and consequences of change, and whether change has been positive, negative, or uneven.
How technology has transformed communication, work, education, politics, and daily life.
Development, globalisation, inequality, trade, work, and changing economic systems.
Climate change, sustainability, resource use, human impact, and responses to environmental challenges.
Changing identities, migration, urbanisation, cultural exchange, rights, and social movements.
Technology, communication, work, AI, digital society, media, and innovation.
Globalisation, development, inequality, poverty, trade, labour, and economic opportunity.
Climate change, sustainability, cities, resources, disasters, and environmental decision-making.
Migration, identity, culture, demographic change, social change, and global connections.
These questions are designed to help students think across the theme and prepare for discussion, writing, and presentation tasks.
Before the event, students should aim to feel confident with the following: