Project Elements
1. Combine our research activities of our project with the needs of
our school teaching program
A. Combine our research activities of our project
2-3-3 Learn about the global environmental issues and the effects toward the human society and know some recent related solutions.
6-3-2-3 Face the problems, do multi-thinking, offer solutions.
7-3-0-2 Apply to daily life with the learned science knowledge and skills.
B. Project research and Seven Domains Language Arts:
By researching information, visiting the farm, investigating the environment, generalization, integration, and integrated data, we learned the expressive way of reflection writing and oral presentation.
Integrative Activities: Through this search, we learned how to express our own opinions, share our experiences after activities, and respect others’ thoughts. Besides, we also learned to take part in each activity actively and experience life outside the school. Further develop our own responsibility.
Gender Education: There are six students and three teachers in our team. The four boys and two girls are sixth grade students. They play their strengths and cooperate. In harmonious atmosphere, they complete this project step by step and finish the web-pages successfully.
C. Project research and ten basic abilities What we learned:
The skills of interview:
We understood contact and draw up interview drafts (or question list) before interview. When the interview starts, be polite and clearly speaking. Convey thanks after interview. So that will be a successful interview.
The skills of the questionnaire survey:
In order to know if the teachers, students and parents realize about and agree with the “Ecology Insect Garden”, we made a questionnaire survey. And then, gather the written questionnaire to tabulate and draw. After experience the completed investigation, our abilities are greatly enhanced.
The skills of active exploration and researching:
This research is a brand-new topic for us. It’s precious to participate and implement to complete it. So, everything you want to learn, you can learn everywhere. Active exploration, team cooperation and problems solving are the most important factors to support and lead us to succeed.
The skills of web authoring:
The article writing, content arrangement, image processing, video processing, graphic design, Webpage editing etc in webpages are discussed and worked together by us and teachers. We benefited a lot.
Implement and practice ideas and methods of team cooperation to finish our project:
(1) Whatever questionnaire, interview the owner of the farm, promotion activities or report writing, we separate each big task into many small tasks. Allot tasks by personal strength, interesting or will. Everyone elaborates his part, and then put all results together to become a complete work.
(2) Some tasks cannot be allotted equally, therefore, the one first completed would assist the unfinished ones. We work together and cooperate with each other to complete the project smoothly.
2-3-3 Learn about the global environmental issues and the effects toward the human society and know some recent related solutions.
6-3-2-3 Face the problems, do multi-thinking, offer solutions.
7-3-0-2 Apply to daily life with the learned science knowledge and skills.
B. Project research and Seven Domains Language Arts:
By researching information, visiting the farm, investigating the environment, generalization, integration, and integrated data, we learned the expressive way of reflection writing and oral presentation.
Integrative Activities: Through this search, we learned how to express our own opinions, share our experiences after activities, and respect others’ thoughts. Besides, we also learned to take part in each activity actively and experience life outside the school. Further develop our own responsibility.
Gender Education: There are six students and three teachers in our team. The four boys and two girls are sixth grade students. They play their strengths and cooperate. In harmonious atmosphere, they complete this project step by step and finish the web-pages successfully.
C. Project research and ten basic abilities What we learned:
The skills of interview:
We understood contact and draw up interview drafts (or question list) before interview. When the interview starts, be polite and clearly speaking. Convey thanks after interview. So that will be a successful interview.
The skills of the questionnaire survey:
In order to know if the teachers, students and parents realize about and agree with the “Ecology Insect Garden”, we made a questionnaire survey. And then, gather the written questionnaire to tabulate and draw. After experience the completed investigation, our abilities are greatly enhanced.
The skills of active exploration and researching:
This research is a brand-new topic for us. It’s precious to participate and implement to complete it. So, everything you want to learn, you can learn everywhere. Active exploration, team cooperation and problems solving are the most important factors to support and lead us to succeed.
The skills of web authoring:
The article writing, content arrangement, image processing, video processing, graphic design, Webpage editing etc in webpages are discussed and worked together by us and teachers. We benefited a lot.
Implement and practice ideas and methods of team cooperation to finish our project:
(1) Whatever questionnaire, interview the owner of the farm, promotion activities or report writing, we separate each big task into many small tasks. Allot tasks by personal strength, interesting or will. Everyone elaborates his part, and then put all results together to become a complete work.
(2) Some tasks cannot be allotted equally, therefore, the one first completed would assist the unfinished ones. We work together and cooperate with each other to complete the project smoothly.
2. Using information techonology to finish our project:
We finished our project search by using six computers with network in normal classrooms after school every Friday. These six computers are provided by school or instructor’s personal computer. Most search and work are uploaded to the website platform (Wenhua Elementary School ePBL) set up by Miss Xu. In addition, we made good use of Cloud, such as Google Drive and dropbox, to access, upload and share our documents, videos and photos (taken by digital camera or smartphone). Using the software and website platform made us work more efficiently.
Used information technology:
(1)Desktop computer, Laptop, Pad: search information on the internet, data integration, project website processing
(2)Printer, copy machine: copy or print data, worksheet, questionnaire, interview draft, etc.
(3)Telephone: Contact with the interviewer. It’s also an important tool to connect between team members. Introduce our research to the local farmers and ask them to accept our interview by telephones
(4)Mobile phone and pad: Nowadays, the mobile phone can be a tool for taking picture and recording. The communication system, such as LINE, is very convenient for us to have video interview with the owner of the farm on line directly.
(5)Digital video, camera, audio recorder, single beam projector: Photography, videography and record of our events, projector for presentation
(6)USB / CD:
(7)Software / document: Word, PSPad editor
(8)Software / brief: PowerPoint
Software / image processing: PhotoCap 6.0
Software / : Xmind
Software / Flash photoalbum: Flash Slideshow Maker Professional
Software / video editing: FormatFactoryPortable_3.3.5
Software / webpage processing: EXE, Dreamweaver
(9)Cloud platform: Google Drive, Dropbox
Used information technology:
(1)Desktop computer, Laptop, Pad: search information on the internet, data integration, project website processing
(2)Printer, copy machine: copy or print data, worksheet, questionnaire, interview draft, etc.
(3)Telephone: Contact with the interviewer. It’s also an important tool to connect between team members. Introduce our research to the local farmers and ask them to accept our interview by telephones
(4)Mobile phone and pad: Nowadays, the mobile phone can be a tool for taking picture and recording. The communication system, such as LINE, is very convenient for us to have video interview with the owner of the farm on line directly.
(5)Digital video, camera, audio recorder, single beam projector: Photography, videography and record of our events, projector for presentation
(6)USB / CD:
(7)Software / document: Word, PSPad editor
(8)Software / brief: PowerPoint
Software / image processing: PhotoCap 6.0
Software / : Xmind
Software / Flash photoalbum: Flash Slideshow Maker Professional
Software / video editing: FormatFactoryPortable_3.3.5
Software / webpage processing: EXE, Dreamweaver
(9)Cloud platform: Google Drive, Dropbox
3. How to play a role as an “ambassador” through the interactions between persons and your group?
Through participate the project, we know further about the environment reformation on campus. The ecology environment should be protected by everyone to let the beautiful butterflies live sustainably. Basic on it, we have the sentiment to protect the environment and active concern about the community surrounding.
(1)The way of data collection and arrangement: Search information through the internet, take photos and videos by ourselves, record local field observation
The ambassador: Know the environment reformation on campus by discussing the external experiences and the cooperation of the internal folk force.
(2)Project interview and forums
Contacted people: The owner of the Hong Wa Cuo Science Education Farm – the Xu Fu-chang couple and our principal, Lai Ming-chuan
The ambassador: Understand how to run a insect garden and the related knowledge
(3)Questionnaire survey:
Contacted people: Teachers and students at our school and communities
The ambassador: Discuss and understand if they agree or oppose the environment on campus reformed and the insect garden set up.
(4)Field investigation
Contacted people: The owner of the Hong Wa Cuo Science Education Farm – the Xu Fu-chang couple and teachers at Wenhua Elementary School, Lai Qiu-yu, Chen Fong-gui, Zhang Ming-zheng.
The ambassador: Visit the Hong Wa Cuo Science Education Farm to understand deeply the insect feeder’s efforts, faced difficulties and the value of environmental education in the farm. By actually interview understand how the environment reformation affects our living.
(5)The way of policy forum:
Seek advices from related communities about setting up the insect garden on campus.
The ambassador: To know other methods of environment reformation or leaning paths at other school
(6)The way of practice and experience:
Participate in the insect garden conservation and explanation
The ambassador: Experience, implement environment reformation, participate in conservation, nurturance and commentators.
(7)Guidance activities
Contacted people: All teachers and employees in our school, volunteers, communities and parents
The ambassador: Let more people know the important of environment reformation on campus and realize that it’s a good virtue to protect nature and respect for lives.
Data collection | Field investigation |
Practice and experience | Guidance activities |
The ambassador: Know the environment reformation on campus by discussing the external experiences and the cooperation of the internal folk force.
(2)Project interview and forums
Contacted people: The owner of the Hong Wa Cuo Science Education Farm – the Xu Fu-chang couple and our principal, Lai Ming-chuan
The ambassador: Understand how to run a insect garden and the related knowledge
(3)Questionnaire survey:
Contacted people: Teachers and students at our school and communities
The ambassador: Discuss and understand if they agree or oppose the environment on campus reformed and the insect garden set up.
(4)Field investigation
Contacted people: The owner of the Hong Wa Cuo Science Education Farm – the Xu Fu-chang couple and teachers at Wenhua Elementary School, Lai Qiu-yu, Chen Fong-gui, Zhang Ming-zheng.
The ambassador: Visit the Hong Wa Cuo Science Education Farm to understand deeply the insect feeder’s efforts, faced difficulties and the value of environmental education in the farm. By actually interview understand how the environment reformation affects our living.
(5)The way of policy forum:
Seek advices from related communities about setting up the insect garden on campus.
The ambassador: To know other methods of environment reformation or leaning paths at other school
(6)The way of practice and experience:
Participate in the insect garden conservation and explanation
The ambassador: Experience, implement environment reformation, participate in conservation, nurturance and commentators.
(7)Guidance activities
Contacted people: All teachers and employees in our school, volunteers, communities and parents
The ambassador: Let more people know the important of environment reformation on campus and realize that it’s a good virtue to protect nature and respect for lives.
5.Knowing about Intellectual Property Right:
1. The articles and charts on our website were made after visiting coherent units or person and the photos were also taken by us with our digital cameras. We enclosed the source of the materials on every picture and asked the authors’ agreement to post their promotion experience on the internet just in order to respect the intellectual property right.
2. All videos and pictures on the website were taken by teachers and students in Wenhua Elementary School.
3. Mark the name – Use noncommercially – Be forbidden to do any revise
This license allows the user to reproduce, distribute, transfer of copyright, but not for commercial use, shall not modify the works. The use must be in accordance with the works specified way to honor his name.
4. All the related data and pictures about visiting and interview had been used on our project research and academic research with consent.
*Transcription Agreement: Thanks to the offer of the information as below:
2. All videos and pictures on the website were taken by teachers and students in Wenhua Elementary School.
3. Mark the name – Use noncommercially – Be forbidden to do any revise
This license allows the user to reproduce, distribute, transfer of copyright, but not for commercial use, shall not modify the works. The use must be in accordance with the works specified way to honor his name.
4. All the related data and pictures about visiting and interview had been used on our project research and academic research with consent.
*Transcription Agreement: Thanks to the offer of the information as below:
6. The Influence and the Impact of doing this project:
1. We promote our project with community promotion. Through the print media, students at school and parents in the community are interested in our project. It proves the effect of the publicity.
2. With the care of all the teachers and parents, many guests – little animals have increased on campus. We can see cute squirrels in the insect garden. Sometimes, we can also see magpies. I hope there are more and more animals at school. I would treasure them because it’s important to learn to live in harmony with nature. When we treat animals and human beings as friends and no harm them, we can find out our value of life.
3. We hope we can rouse the masses to maintain the environment on campus together. Share our activities with friends on the internet, act to move our classmates, families and communities. We expect more people protect the most beautiful natural environment.
2. With the care of all the teachers and parents, many guests – little animals have increased on campus. We can see cute squirrels in the insect garden. Sometimes, we can also see magpies. I hope there are more and more animals at school. I would treasure them because it’s important to learn to live in harmony with nature. When we treat animals and human beings as friends and no harm them, we can find out our value of life.
3. We hope we can rouse the masses to maintain the environment on campus together. Share our activities with friends on the internet, act to move our classmates, families and communities. We expect more people protect the most beautiful natural environment.
7. Discoveries, Lessons, and Amazement:
(1)Discoveries
We watered, fed bugs and swept in the insect garden at noon every day. It was hard and busy, but we were happy. When the flowers become beautiful, the butterflies fly around, and the bugs are strong and pretty, we felt a sense of achievement!
(2)Lessons
As we investigated the insects’ ecology, we reformed the environments on campus and maintain the insect garden. At the same time, we set up our webpages. The research took us more than 7 months. From the start of the project, we had a meeting and worked every Friday. Without hard-working, our web-pages would complete smoothly.
(3)Amazement
There are more and more animals at school. We would treasure them because it’s important to learn to live in harmony with nature. When we treat animals and human beings as friends and no harm them, we can find out our value of life from that. We lead by example as the little moving force of the environment reformation to explore the secrets of the insects. And then, promote to teachers, classmates and parents in many ways. This project made me get a deeper understanding for the insects. Further, I realized that it’s a good virtue to protect natural environment and respect for life.
We watered, fed bugs and swept in the insect garden at noon every day. It was hard and busy, but we were happy. When the flowers become beautiful, the butterflies fly around, and the bugs are strong and pretty, we felt a sense of achievement!
(2)Lessons
As we investigated the insects’ ecology, we reformed the environments on campus and maintain the insect garden. At the same time, we set up our webpages. The research took us more than 7 months. From the start of the project, we had a meeting and worked every Friday. Without hard-working, our web-pages would complete smoothly.
(3)Amazement
There are more and more animals at school. We would treasure them because it’s important to learn to live in harmony with nature. When we treat animals and human beings as friends and no harm them, we can find out our value of life from that. We lead by example as the little moving force of the environment reformation to explore the secrets of the insects. And then, promote to teachers, classmates and parents in many ways. This project made me get a deeper understanding for the insects. Further, I realized that it’s a good virtue to protect natural environment and respect for life.