How did your activities and research for this International Schools Cyber Fair project support content standards, required coursework and curriculum requirements?

1、Language
With aggregated data, access reports and tips to improve our language skills. During his visit, we want to access the conceptual design problem, pay attention to etiquette and attitudes, especially to maintain calm mood to deal with fluency required content.

2、Methmatics
Use addition and subtraction operations, second-hand goods at a flea market trading activities, find the money to count the money. Survey statistics, re-use computer teacher taught us the calc program, input data to complete the chart.

3、Art and humanities
During a visit to the production of detergent and soap we gave respondents, thank respondents interviewed busy, give us a lot of valuable information. Environmentally friendly toys and DIY activities to inspire students ingenuity and creativity, environmental issues and more caring mood. In the production of web pages, in addition to editing photos, the gorgeous layout techniques have full use of the United States Code, in order to play the effect.

4、Computer skill
The use of computer software to create web pages, for example: Draw survey charts, vegetables growth record table ... so skillfully manipulated computer operating procedures, typing speed will progress, and check the necessary information from the Internet, web pages, photo editing, animation, but also enhance our ability to live technology.

5、Society
The web production, visiting Beitou incinerator Lake regeneration furniture factory, Tzu Chi Guandu environmental stations and recycling field, let us recognize that local officials, non-governmental environmental organizations, increasing the knowledge of many of the social sphere.

6、General Activities
In the web production process, there are different activities each day, activities to be responsible for due diligence, hard work so as not to affect the progress of the division of labor, so the team is very important; in addition, to express their views with each other, communication concept view, respect for each other are let us learn and grow in the process.

What information tools and technologies did you use to complete your Cyber fair project?

In our project, we used these tools which included digital cameras, telephones, computer software, projectors, recorders, books and etc... By using the projectors and computers at school, we could discuss and work in groups to make the webpage. The recorders and earphone helped us to record all the interviews. Moreover, we often took pictures with our own cameras during our experiences activities. No matter what tools we used, we thought the most useful and valuable tool is internet. The internet helped us not only find data and information we need, but also send the photos and the articles to our teammates. Most importantly, we communicated with each other via the internet and integrated the finished parts into the project on the web.

In what ways did your students act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyberfair project both on-line and in person?

Beitou is located in Taipei due to earlier development regions, traditional folk conservative, industrious and thrifty nature, repair industry, recycling industry, in Beitou streets can be easy to see, is a part of human life Beitou, therefore, first of all we first the students compiled groups assign a different time to visit and contact the agreed meeting time, their duties by telephone, face to face visit, collect information, photographs, and then another message through the computerized processing of a compilation, not only made into "More Recycling , Better Future. ", and to carry out" recycling "of teaching and community resources to improve the campus environment combined with teachers and students, thus more transparent as a process-related activities, training students planning organization and coordination, communication and response, article compiled language and ability. Let us hope that through this website more attention to environmental issues and to share with more people know.

What has been or will be the impact of your project on your community?

Although recycling, everyone knows, but the real implementation to do, how many people? In this web activities, know Beitou incinerator and the lake regeneration furniture, although Taipei municipal garbage collection units, but the use of recycling, the recycling of garbage burning power change, recycling furniture, bicycle repair Used become another auction, really worthy of the name "garbage into gold"; especially environmental station based Tzu Chi Guandu "junk into gold, gold becomes love, love of clean, clean around the global" concept, combined with local volunteers, recycling various environmental materials re-use, re-invest the funds received to charity, this spirit of selfless love, is really impressive. Another day in every corner, there is a group of people or picking up recycling industry quietly pay, so Beitou Acres implement environmental protection work. Students through the writing process of the topic, the integration of these bits and pieces of information to form a systematic delve into recycling and environmental implementation picture, and by participating in creating web pages and look forward to caring for living things we know how to love things, more attention and implement, reuse and recycling classification.

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

Tzu Chi volunteer referrals through environmental team to assist the work of the school environment. Community college teacher Tang lead you learn how to do an extension cord. Toy doctor to teach you how to care for and repair toys. Another local environmental protection industry, and are willing to accept our busy schedule to visit, let us understand the characteristics of various industries, and provide a lot of valuable information and stories, let us gain full interview.

Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises

1、In the school day to teach parents to make "Soap", after a month of ripening, parents and teachers to try, were well received, but clean and strong moisture, become the best Souvenir visit, everyone close when liked this noble and easy to use soap. !

2、Umbrella cloth and then use "this is a big test craft activity, we do not use an umbrella made of cloth raincoat, Zhiwu Dai, shower cap, reusable shopping bags, picnic mats, etc., each has a unique kind of design ingenuity, it is put it down.

3、"Green toys' production, all of the students participating in the fourth grade, everyone played creativity and ingenuity, there are sets of circle, pinball machines, bamboo guns and other works, all of them are environmentally friendly and fun features, so that our activities extremely exciting, had only an environmentally friendly toys creative competitions, but later joined the class of environmentally friendly natural elasticity car contest, solar car experience, bamboo dragonfly production. Wide range of toys, so that we have a new environmentally friendly recycling awareness, hands definitive answers, fixed brains and environmentally friendly and interesting.

4、In order to experience the production of "kitchen waste recycling," we bottled and bagged two groups for comparison, would have thought that there will be a "liquid fertilizer," one week later to explore the possible impact because the weather is too cold. After a week to wait, finally fertilizer. Two kinds of ways to collect almost time, but inside the recovered material will affect the fermentation, because our class itself to Liu Dingpi do, after three weeks no fertilizer, Qi Jun home mom with fruit peels and coffee grounds, 10 days to produce fertilizer. "Fertilizer" We used to sweep the toilet, nor smell good wash. We kind of fertilizer produced delicious vegetables, the re-use kitchen fully utilized in life.

5、"Campus small vanguard" is the most difficult of our activities, recycling has been doing the things you know, but after participating in activities to understand, in fact, there are many areas for improvement, we are involved in Beitou night Tzu Chi Bin field classification work, to know more detailed classification as well as the type of item, such as "paper" have divided black and white paper, colored paper, thick paper, newspapers, etc., "PET bottles" to go to the ring and then flattened bottle caps go on recycling is our task to learn again. Advocacy on campus, the recovery of some schools to be improved in order to theatrical performances presented in a way so that we can do better by Tzu Chi environmental groups involved in helping improve the campus environment, the resource recovery better.

6、Members participate in the activities of the warmest is "flea market" to collect unwanted items class home, provided by our chairman Tang Tianmu flea free venue to sell second-hand goods, purchase large amounts of goods to return to school set up a stall to sell, a weeks off, we have more than eight thousand yuan of charity income growth Foundation donated aid children with cancer, in addition to the actual experience of the students when the boss, learn how to sell things, and to help small patients need, this is the most fun and meaningful activities.

7、Environmental volunteers and recycling industry, whether as a volunteer or to make money breadwinners, these resource recovery work going on every day, just as volunteers Chensheng Sheng said, the best hope for the future is "everyone does green" implement in every heart, I believe that our children and grandchildren for the next generation is still a beautiful planet.

8、From the interview record, each work has its hard place, the so-called "great wealth better than a technology in itself," a variety of repair industry, has its own skills, able to survive in this environment of ample supplies, there must be its necessity, can meet their own food and clothing with a person, but also to make thin cotton force for environmental protection.

2015 Li-Nong Elementary School , Taipei , Taiwan - Recycle Pioneer  
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