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1.Motivations for conducting the research:
Our
campus is open and spacious, with plenty of fully-grown trees. The campus, filled with greens, appears very
lively. The campus is rather big but
there are not that many students. The
students help to sweep many fallen leaves on the floor, but there are too many
leaves on the floor to be cleaned up. It
is a shame not to know the kinds of the trees we see everyday in our school.
As
a natural-science teacher myself, I used to feel guilty for not letting my
students learn more about the plants here, and I didn’t know exactly where to
begin.
When I mentioned my thoughts to the other two
teachers, they also felt the same. Also because
one of our alumni, Mr. Pei Chuan, helped to plant seedlings of endemic genres
in our campus, our chief administrator and teachers began to initiate this
project to enter Cyber Fair’s environmental-issues category. Also, our school has been selected as one of
the computer-technology focus schools.
We have purchased and added equipments to enhance computer technology. We hope that by joining the research project,
we can let our students learn more and have better understandings of the
plants.
2.
Objectives of the research:
(1).
To know endemic plants
(2).
To know the endemic plants in
our campus
(3).
To realize the threats posed by
foreign plants to local plants
(4).
To let students appreciate and
cherish the trees and plants around us
3.
Methods of research:
(1).
Collect related information
from the Internet
(2).
Read books related to plants
(3).
Visit relevant organizations: “Special Plants
Center” in Ji-Ji, “Endemic Plant
Products Promotion Class” of Ur-Lin (hosted by Mr. Chan Jay Wu), “Happy Ecological
Garden” in Chang-Hua, and the “Tien-Wei Freeway Garden”
(4).
Small-group discussions and
conferences
(5).
Invite scholars and experts to
give speeches in our school
4.
Results and discussions from
the research:
(1).
From the facts that some of the
seedlings have dried and died in our school, we learned that not all endemic
plants are suitable to be planted in the plains. We have to grow trees according to their
nature and needs.
(2).
Being able to distinguish some
endemic plants
(3).
Understand the impacts foreign
plants have on local endemic plants
(4).
Understand different views the
academic field and plant-industries have on these plants
(5).
Knowing how to distinguish
trees by using collected data
5.
Suggestions and afterthoughts
(1).
This research is just a
beginning. We only know the very surface
of endemic plants. It will take a longer
period of research and studies to have an even deeper understanding of the
plants.
(2).
We should let the students know
the plants first. Then through the
method of “Adopting a Tree”, we will let students adopt trees and take care of
the trees automatically.
(3).
People in our community can
also adopt the trees through PTA and Parents’ Association.
(4).
We didn’t know how open-ended
this field of study is until we started getting involved. The very little knowledge we had made us feel
that we still hadn’t known enough. We
still needed to spend more time to gain more knowledge.
The passions and
dedications we had seen from Dr. Tseng, Mr. Wu of “Ur-Ling Products Promotion
Class”, and Mr. Pei Chuan of the “Happy
Ecological Garden”
really touched us deeply. Their
dedications and contributions are tremendous, not for profit, but rather to
fulfill their own dreams. People turn
great when they have dreams. People who
actually realize their dreams are the luckiest ones. We hope that you and us can learn from them
and look up to them as role models. As
teachers, we should do better researches and spend more efforts in hope of
benefiting our students more.
Is this the end? No, it’s just the beginning.
When a seed falls down onto the ground, it
silently waits for the right moments to come.
When fire burns, or snows fall, or the
spring rain showers on it,
all the beautiful genes start to be awaken.
We, the Sun Forest Explore Team, are just
like the awaken seeds that
will continue to grow and get stronger.
Our team, with systematic planning,happily learn by doing.Originally we already love plants，so we really enjoy the learning
experiences.Learning Taiwanese endemic/special plants
and their families, genera, and natural orders really enhances our
knowledge. Getting to know and
interviewing the scholars and experts in studying plants, planting plants, and
selling plants are joyful encounters. We
enthusiastically want to influence people around us to embrace the trees in Taiwan. After reading the research by the students,
we think their products produced with great efforts deserve to be stored and
shared.
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