How to combine the project activities with Grades 1 to 9 Curriculums and our school-based curriculum?

Mudan Incident is our topic for this International Schools CyberFair project. We focuse on the reasons, duration, result and influences of Mudan incident.

We combine the project activities with Grades 1 to 9 Curriculums and our school-based curriculum.
1.Be able to analyze the impacts on space design and environment types that personal temperaments,cultural backgrounds, social systems, and natural environments exert.
2.Be able to know the important people and events of Taiwan from past to now.
3.Be able to study the origin of Taiwan culture, and be able to appreciate the contents of Taiwan culture.
4.Be able to understand the characteristics of any roles, and relationship between the roles.
5.Combine the project with our own school-based curriculum. Let it be the integrated curriculum in Social Studies, Chinese, and Arts and Humanities.

 

What kind of computer technological tools did you use to finish your Cyberfair project?

computer technological tools

Purposes

Internet Use the internet browser to collect the information we need.
Use E-mail to connect with the persons we want to interview and with our team members.
Use E-mail to sent our reports to the teachers.

Digital cameras

To take the photos of visits, interviews, activities, and the places we went.

Digital video cameras

To take the videos of the whole duration of activities and the interviews.

Images retrieved facility

To arrange the photos and videos we made from cameras to computers.

Scanners

Scann pictures and pages.

Telephones

Connect with the persons we want to interview and with our team members.

Softwares

Ulead PhotoImpact, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia Fireworks MX, Micosoft WORD, Micosoft Powerpoint, Ulead VideoStudio 9, etc.

 

What will we gain most from the Cyberfair project?

The students are all 5th grade. They got no ideal about Mudan incident at beginning. We got lots of informations by interviewing the related persons and by visiting the historical spots.

1.We can interview the descendant of Yang You-Wang
2.We can interview the descendant of Sinvaudjan.
3.We can interview the town mayor of Mudan and the senior history researchers.


Those are meaningful gains for students. When we listen the storys, it just like the Mudan incident happened lately.

 

What did you get influences and impacts from your project?

We get familiar with E-learning and E-sharing. Our team members used the web-pages to present our research achievements. Though not perfect, they gave us the precious experiences of learning and sharing online.

We learned to cooperate, face challenges, and grow through hard work. The final product online was a resentation of the team effort. We worked hard together to collect data, make visits to people and places, and devise web-pages. Although we came across some bottlenecks and difficulties, we solved them through brainstorming. Now, we are a research team with esprit de corps.

 

We respect the intellectual property rights and copyright of materials we cited on uor project web-pages.

Most of the pictures we used on our web-pages were taken by ourselves. The materials cited from books and the Internet were listed in detail in the section "References."

 

What did we get besides the study of Cyberfair project?

1.We learn a lot about the origin of the place name where we live nearby.
2.We learn the basic manners. for example, we must to make a reservation to the person we want to interview, tell them the topic we want to discuss in advance, and meet them on time, etc.
3.We learn the importance of teamwork, plan, cooperation.
4.We learn to respect the aboriginal culture.