In the kick-off meeting of this “A home to the fish” project, children watched the movie of how the majestic warship was burst up and suck into seabed, and then became to be the future beautiful castle for aquatic livings. These little team members were impressed, and their strong eagerness to further understand and be attentive to the protection of sea world was shown on their sparkling eyes.
After uploading their first reports, all kids felt much self-achieved. They expressed what they learned and what they thought by drawing and writing short essay. These were shown on web pages, which were really dainty and sincere. They all participated in the discussion meetings, movie watching, data searching and Fishery Administration (FA) visiting. We interviewed the Managing Director of FA (Mr. Hsieh Da-Wen), Section head (Mr. Lin Guo-Ping), Technical Chief (Mr. Wang Mao-Cheng) and Public Relationship (Mr. Kuo Xin-Sheng), and learned a lot from them on the captioned subject.
We had been waiting for a good weather for going to the sea. Finally we had our wish fulfilled and we saw how FA staff throw the reef. We interviewed the Administration of Fishing of Tao-Yuan County (Mr. Yu Yeh-Shen), Captain of the ship we boarded(Mr. Chang Jin-Feng), Diver (Mr. Wu Mu-Shen), Chief-secretary of Tao-Yuan County Farmers’ association (Mr. Chen Yih-Cheng) and the designer of steel reef (Mr. Yen Rui-Heng), and came out a professional report of how reef is set up.
By the group discussion between teacher and students, we designed an electronic drawing book and it then became to be a talking book. The students were very excited when they heard their voice from the talking book. Script discussion, dub recording … etc., all kids were excited and nervous in each step. Though they are just kids at the age of 8 or 9, the spirit of their devoting themselves to the project and the growth along with the project is really amazing and applauded by adults. Furthermore, we shared this fish care project with other students. We conducted two conferences and the target audience was the students in grade 1-3 . In the conference, we played the movie of warship reef and the talking book designed by us All 11 little team members presented what they learned and thought, and the feedback was great. It fully achieved what we expected.
Starting with learning how warship reef is set up, knowing enormous and gentle shark – whale shark, interviewing the Managing Director of FA, and consulting with the experts, we realized the urgency and importance of caring the resources of sea world, and we also complied the script of the show of sea world environment. Through these activities and designs, we worked as a team, leaned the team building and cooperation, learned how to care earth and our living environment, learned earnest and responsibility, and learned interpersonal communication and presentation skills. The inner meaning of this project is extraordinary. It’s not just a web page design. Enlightening the children to know how to love themselves as well as to care others, isn’t it the most beautiful part of sincerity? We hope the world will be influent by the heart of caring earth via the endless cyber world.