CyberFair Project ID: 6407

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: Turn the great love into a purifying stream, save the earth with environmental protection
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
URL: http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2010/gsh6407/
Bibliography: http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2010/gsh6407/h1.html

School: The Exp. Elementary School of TzuChi University
    Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C

6 students, ages 10-12 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 22, 2010. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2010

Classes and Teachers: Yao, Zhang

E-Mail contact:

Our School's Web Site: http://www.tces.hlc.edu.tw

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Hualien County is best known for its tourism. In its south, day lilies are planted on 60-Stone Mountain; in the north, world-famous Taroko National Park is located; in the east is the endless Pacific Ocean, and in the west is Qilai Mountain. Hualien City is in the center of this precious land, gathering its culture, economy and politics. Here, the developed, developing and underdeveloped beautiful scenes are waiting for your visits.

2. Summary of Our Project

What is called “garbage”? In the dictionary, “garbage means filthy and useless things, but can all useless things be called as garbage? Is all garbage really useless? Nowadays “garbage” is defined as “things we no longer need”.

Garbage, however, changes with social environment, eras, economical status, personal consciousness etc. General definition of garbage means “junk”. Junk can be divided into daily and business. To be more specific, it can be classified as huge garbage, burnable trash, unburnable trash, harmful waste. Many countries are now worried that trash keeps increasing; general publics like us should think about this problem: why this garbage is produced and how we can deal with it.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:more than 6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

School Internet Facilities Current Internet environment at school is ADSL broad band. There is one computer lab, with 36 Intel-P4 PCs for students and one for teachers. Domestic Internet At team members’ houses, few of us use 56K dial-up Internet and ADSL broad band. We usually discuss at school or utilize our free time at school to communicate with emails, MSN messengers, FTP and exclusively internet forum to send data and exchange thoughts.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

The principal and administration unit helped us contact relevant organizations and the profession. Parents of the students helped contact narrators and interviewees. Activity fees were raised by the school administration unit and instructors. Instructors provided vehicles and picked up students. In order to write articles on the site, the students searched data on the internet and found relevant information. Special thanks to Office of Construction and Academic Affairs for providing data and introduction. Because of limited time, we sacrificed lunch break and our leisure time.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Hundreds of garbage problems all come from the same ultimate reason: the source. We thought about the story which the main character tried every possible way to put out the fire but his insight was not adopted, and we should cope with the trash problem just like him. We can never avoid creating waste, but we should eliminate it when we make it. If there is no source, we don’t have to deal with it too hard. Less clothes means less dumped clothes, less money spent and less trash.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

The purpose of this project is to let others understand the trash issue in Hualien and with what attitude we should face it. We are very grateful for those who helped us to do the interviews; it really made us understand more. We hope through this site more people can know how serious this problem is.

In this project research, every team member fulfilled every task by division of labors, through dividing into teams, discussion, collecting and sorting data, and conducting interviews together, and we learned how to apply the knowledge we gained into life. We tested what we had learned in life. Every interview and field trip, we found that we focused more, our asking skills became more sophisticated, and team members encouraged each other to make things more perfect. More importantly, we cared about every detail now; whereas, we were careless at the beginning, which made the interviewees feel that we were serious and sincere.

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Project Elements

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Computers, Searching data, writing research reports, making web pages Internet, Searching data, uploading research reports, using emails, making web pages Computer Software, Searching data, writing research reports, making web pages Scanner, Sorting paper references Digital camera, Taking pictures of work and interviews Digital recorder, Recording interviews

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

In this project research, every team member fulfilled every task by division of labors, through dividing into teams, discussion, collecting and sorting data, and conducting interviews together, and we learned how to apply the knowledge we gained into life. We tested what we had learned in life. Every interview and field trip, we found that we focused more, our asking skills became more sophisticated, and team members encouraged each other to make things more perfect. More importantly, we cared about every detail now; whereas, we were careless at the beginning, which made the interviewees feel that we were serious and sincere.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

The purpose of this project is to let others understand the trash issue in Hualien and with what attitude we should face it. We are very grateful for those who helped us to do the interviews; it really made us understand more. We hope through this site more people can know how serious this problem is.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

We want to thank our principle and all the teachers who have helped us in our schools. They spent lots of time to give us information and to help us to finish all the works we need to do. Teacher Yao, he teach us using the computer skillfully. We also want to thank all the people with whom we had the interviews.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Although we do not have the relevant skills and knowledge of doing a research project, with the instructions from the teachers and the endurance from this period of time, we started to love the content of our project. We now have a better understanding that “garbage” is not the simple thing we used to know, it includes the results of hard work from many people. In order to learn this new concept, we read extensively, went to the sites and we learned a lot, which also made us treasure materials to protect the earth.

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