CyberFair Project ID: 7042

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: National Wetland Park
Category: 5. Local Attractions (Natural and Man-Made)
URL: http://www.yellowsheepriver.com/~qh000012/2012/
Bibliography: http://www.yellowsheepriver.com/~qh000012/2012/04005zhdjh.htm

School: Qinghai Hexi boarding school
    XiNing, QingHai, China

3 students, ages 15 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 13, 2012. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2009,2010,2011

Classes and Teachers: Li xiaoying

E-Mail contact:

Our School's Web Site: http://qh000012.edu.17888.com

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Guide County is in Qinghai Province of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, between the Longyang Gorge and Lijia Gorge which located in the upper reach of Yellow River, the clear and crystal Yellow River running through the county in recent years attracted many tourists from home and abroad. The government office is in Heyin Town, 114 km from the provincial capital Xining, and 158 km from the capital town Qiabuqia of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Guide County is located in the transitional zone between the Loess Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with Yellow River west-east running across the central and northern part of it, lying stream for 76.8 kilometers. Throughout the whole area, ravines and ditches are criss-cross, mountains and rivers are spotted inter-phrased, forming a multi-level river terraces and hilly basin landscape. The south and north part of the county is upper while the middle part is lower, thus there formed a kind of basin valley ringed by mountains. Its altitude is at 2200 meters, with the lowest altitude at Songba Gorge gap of 2710 meters and the highest at A'nizhi Mountain of 5011 meters. Due to its hiding inland location, Guide is of plateau and continental climate, enjoying more hours of sunlight and stronger solar radiation. Featuring dry and windy spring, cool but short summer cool, damp and rainy autumn, long and dry winter of great difference in temperature, the annual average temperature in Guide county is 7.2 ?, comparing to that of the extreme maximum temperature in history was 34 ?, while extreme low one was -23.8 ?. The annual precipitation averages 251-559 mm, while 258 days' annual frost-free period, 223 days' crop growth period and 2928 hours' annual hours of sunshine.

2. Summary of Our Project

Investigation and research into the Yellow River help people get a deeper understanding of it that it is the mother river of our country, the cradle of the nation, also is a cultural accumulative heritage. The Yellow River, has been nurturing generations of descendants, while witnessing the history of the human civilization. Therefore, every one of us has the responsibility to protect it. Let's join to protect our mother river as well as its cultural and historical treasures.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:less than 20

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:2-3

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

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

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

Balzac once said: 'the difficulty, for the weak is an abyss, it is a fortune for the strong.' Yeah, if you surrender to fate, to yield to difficulties, so he is only a weak. After meditation, I could not help but think of a thing. It was on a week day, teacher, my classmates and I went to interview making webpage information. On the way, begin, I full power, also walked very carefully, but then journey is not half, I was too tired to dizziness asthma. To see the road, continuously in the heart beat a retreat. The teachers struggled to move forward, asked me;' how, not to go?' ' Oh! I'm exhausted! ' This is what! The Red Army fears not the trials of the March, holding light ten thousand crags and torrents. I think : the teacher can' the trials of a long journey just aimlessly', why can't I' the winding Teng ripples, Wumeng Pangbo torrents'? One gnash one's teeth, courage, ventured, done in one vigorous effort to climb, although the sweat DC, but I finally climbed to the top of the mountain, enjoy the beautiful scenery. Now in retrospect, it is described as perseverance, courage to overcome difficulties, you are sure to succeed this truth? Friend, when you encounter difficulties, please use Comrade Lenin this word to encourage yourself! ' A revolutionary should never let fear overcome ourselves, we should all whenever and wherever possible, exercise their own will.'

5. Our Project Sound Bite

Our special feature research project also gained strong support from the school leaders and teachers. Got close to nature, our horizons have been broadened, and our social practice abilities have been strengthened. Apart from that, in data collection, we did practice so much of our interpersonal ability and gain a lot from it, such as knowing the history and culture of our hometown, mastering basic skills of building website and image processing. Through this theme event and Green Promotion Initiative, we deeply understood and were touched by the famous saying that 'a willful man will have his way.'

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

Through this special feature study, we got valuable knowledge on Yellow River as well as plenty of native culture and history. Besides, we have gained a lot of valuable experience through successfully completed the whole process comprising of schedules making, data collection, collation and discussion, interview skills training, research report writing, website construction etc.. We were passionate and confident, hence our actions got great support from the interviewees. They also believed that our promotion would help to make our hometown and our country get known by and loved by more and more people. The research project has given us the opportunity to practice with what we have learned in school, also we have gained a lot that the books failed to enlighten us. We were so happy to own such valuable experience.

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Project Elements

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

1,Software: frontpage-Webpage edit WORD 2003-Word processing Flash 8.0-Animation photshop 7.0-Image editor Internet Explorer-Searching, browsing FTP-File upload and download 2,Hardware: Computer-Date collection, web-page made U disk, Mobile hard disk-Copy data Digital camera-Photo shoot Network-Write email, online communication

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

Through this successful practice, we all have learned that one could not finish the task without partners but worked in a team, in which we had our respective and appropriate task, cooperated together and mutual trusted. As pioneers, we have been disposed to enhance everyone's environmental consciousness in order to build a better home. Apart from that, we kept trying to promote this throughout the whole world, in hope of everyone can protect our nature such as the mountains and the water.

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

Through this special feature study, we got valuable knowledge on Yellow River as well as plenty of native culture and history. Besides, we have gained a lot of valuable experience through successfully completed the whole process comprising of schedules making, data collection, collation and discussion, interview skills training, research report writing, website construction etc.. We were passionate and confident, hence our actions got great support from the interviewees. They also believed that our promotion would help to make our hometown and our country get known by and loved by more and more people. The research project has given us the opportunity to practice with what we have learned in school, also we have gained a lot that the books failed to enlighten us. We were so happy to own such valuable experience.

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

We do appreciate headmaster Mr. Si's strong support on our work and Director Mr. Wang's offering us vehicles. Thanks teachers Mr. Cui and Mr. Yang for taking pictures for me. Thanks team leader Mr. Nan, teachers Mr. Wei and Mr. Dan for offering me the related information. Thanks teachers Mr. Ma and Mr. Li's guidance us.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

In this research, we not only studied some basic computer skills, but also deeply realized the importance of environmental protection. Protecting the environment, in essence, it to save and protect the draining resources and that for the most basic living condition. Is was witnessed that the industrial civilization in the 21st century increasingly abused the resources, doing serious damage to the environment, which has spurred the human beings' awareness and vigilance. Governments have carried out many measures to protect the environment, which also gained considerable improvement and has been a social consensus. Today, speaking of environmental protection, almost nobody will be disapproved, but put it into actions that continuous protecting the environment and resources, we still have a long way to go. That is, on one hand, we need to develop resources consciousness and survival consciousness. It should be known to everybody that protecting environment and resources is bound up with everyone’s survival, thus it is more than a great everlasting cause that determines our living environment and even the descendants'. Therefore, in the cause of environmental protection, every one is playing an important part in it, it is critical not to be tiresome but to be positive and active. On the other hand, it is the undeniable fact that the government should be responsible for environmental protection, while the more direct and concrete responsibilities are to be bored by each enterprise, institution and human being. In a word, as long as we take the lead of doing every single detail nearby, with our persistent cooperation and hard working, the promising outcomes of blue sky and clear water shall be preserved and everlasting.

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