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Our Miraculous Travel to the Salt Lake

2009
My Project：Our Miraculous Travel to the Salt Lake http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/tqp/f?p=50900:1000:472079025::NO:1000,1400,1401,1402,1403,1500: P1000_TEAM_ID:475075187 Dear friends, have you ever been to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the well-known Qaidam Basin? Have you ever seen the vast and green Salt Lake and the multi-colored and shaped and jady salt crystal? Do you know how the edible salt is made from the Qarhan Salt Lake in Qinghai, what other minerals are produced from the Salt Lake and why the Qarhan Salt Lake is reputed as a white treasure lake? If your answer is no, let’s take a scientific exploration to a world of salt. Standard language courses in primary schools Resource requirements ：Mythical Salt LakeQuoted from Plan on Chinese Reading & Writing Week, Grade 4, Beijing Education Press. The main stage activities and page structure include: Activity I: The Salt Lake described in words is the propeller of our travel to it. 1.Inspiration of our interest in the Salt Lake by reading some model essays. 2.Establishment of my own database using indices. Activity II: Work is divided for each team member and a plan for the travel to the Salt Lake is made. 1.Discussion on the travel plan. 2.Framing up a work plan in table form. Activity III: Read thousands of scrolls of books for knowledge and walk thousands of miles for exploration-our fantastic travel to the Salt Lake. 1. Rushing to the Salt Lake. 2. Stepping on the salt dredger. 3. A visit to the Museum. 4. Return with fruitful results, taking a look at the salt crystals, doing experiments and research by ourselves 5. Picture show on salt crystals. 6. Briefing on the fantastic travel to the Salt Lake and writing compositions on the topic. Activity IV: Exploration of the mysteries of the Salt Lake doesn’t end. 1Questions after our travel. 2.Interview with experts and keeping record. 3.Making interesting experiments and preparing report or recording the entire process. 4.Knowledge on salt we’ve got. 1) The importance of salt. 2) The wide uses of salt. 5.Development and use of the Salt Lake. Activity V: The travel to the Salt Lake inspires us to create our ideality for the future. Imagination after the travel: The Salt Lake and Its Use in the Future. Team members and division of responsibilities Pre-trip Tasks: Schemer Toy Investigators JunnaLuke Negotiator Jason External Liaison Tom Prepared by Susan Trip Period:Interpreter Junna Recorded by Jason Susan Photographed by Luke Communicator Toy Collected by Tom After Trip:Interviewer Jason Experimenters Junna Susan Recorded by Toy Coordinator Tom Summarized by Luke. Teaching objectives of this project and expected results: We may have known something about the Salt Lake from legends, stories and its history. But some of us may not have the chance to go in depth into the essence and the mystery of the Salt Lake culture throughout all his/her life. However, it is still our earnest expectation to provide an utmost opportunity to our students for their active study through such interesting activities like Chinese learning, field study, expert interview and experiments with the assistance of the “thinkquest”. These activities are designed to lead them to seek the truth under the surface, raise up questions frankly, learn the knowledge actively and learn to communicate with others through an easy, think independently, do planned teamwork, help them acquire positive emotional experience and develop their spirit of exploration. What’s more, we hope the children can feel the nature with their heart, feel the change, the grandness and vastness of the Salt Lake, thus they are enlightened to love, appreciate and respect the nature and bear the responsibility of nature protection.

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ywQinghai Xining South Street Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

wenjunQinghai Xining South Street Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

xiaoxianQinghai Xining South Street Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

feiyunQinghai Xining South Street Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

chunyangQinghai Xining Nanfang Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

zhaozhengQinghai Xining Nanfang Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

Age Range

12 & under

Coaches

qiong zhaoQinghai Xining Nanfang Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

jinqi bQinghai Xining South Street Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China

Category

Geography & Travel > Asia > China

Audience

All ages

Language

English

Team Collaboration

Team Leader: Junna and Luke

Pre-trip Tasks: Schemer Toy Investigators JunnaLuke Negotiator Jason External Liaison Tom Prepared by Susan

Trip Period:Interpreter Junna Recorded by Jason Susan Photographed by Luke Communicator Toy Collected by Tom

After Trip:Interviewer Jason Experimenters Junna Susan

Recorded by Toy Coordinator Tom Summarized by Luke

Junna: As lovely as she is, Junna is a 10-year old girl. She has strong consciousness and oral expressive capability at her age. She can operate the computer well and think in calmness. And she is good at using her mind, so it is perfect to assign her tasks like survey, interpretation and sorting of experimental results.

Luke: As young as 10 years old, Luke is an observant and meditative boy interested in maths and intensive study. He is quick in discovering problems. He is especially excellent learner via Internet and photographing. So he is very suitable for photographing, experiments and work summarization.

Susan: Susan is a 9-year-old girl. She has a good moral character. Being clever and efficient, she takes good care of things and is always pleased to help others. As she is also responsible, she could be assigned to the tasks of note-taking, experiments and making preparation.

Toy: Toy is an excellent 10-year-old boy. He’s optimistic, aggressive, quick-minded and not afraid of being defeated. He takes good care of his job. As observant as he is, Toy is perfect to take tasks of planning, communication and taking notes.

Jason: Jason, a 9-year-old boy, has wide interests and is passionate to others. He likes to communicate with others. He has good performance in maths and he can make quick and accurate calculation. So he would be excellent in such jobs as negotiations, recording and interview.

Tom: As lovely and lively as he is, Tom is a 10-year-old boy. He is responsible for the sanitation in his class. He is keen on sports, especially on skateboard. Piecing together a robot toy is his favorite and he is so skillful that even senior high school students cannot perform better than him. He is willing to take the jobs of liaison, data collection and sorting.

Team Diversity

MY Team members from diffrent school.Such as:Assistant Coach Miss Zhao and Tom ,also Jason from Qinghai Xining Nanfang Primary School.The other members from Qinghai Xining South Street Primary School. But we both love travel and love Qinghai,love China,love language.Although we have different personalities,but we are both optimistic, aggressive, quick-minded and not afraid of being defeated. We are gender different form of thinking that we complement each other.So we learned each other,Through this activity, we have many different harvest!Someone learned to Travelnotes,someone learned to Experiments,somrone learned to Interview,somrone learned to Question raising,somrone learned to Observing ,somrone learned to data collection ,somrone learned to Photo taking !Somrone learned to summing-up !It's exciting to close cooperation and task accomplishment.So my team's Project is Interesting about Our Miraculous Travel to the Salt Lake. Our website is rich, and because in practice we can visit and travel ourselves, so our language, pictures, comic books, are their own creation.We are very proud proud!Do not believe, you see!

Making for the Salt Lake!

Much-told the Salt Lake & our target destination

A plan for the travel to the Salt Lake.

Open Our Arms to Embrace the Salt Lake.

Paying a visit to the museum.

Junna'stext a

Jason's text

Tom's text

Susan's test

Toy' s text

Luke's text

Questions & answers from our lake tour

Observing of Salt Crystals

Beauty Competition of Salt Crystals.

Interview with experts and reporting.

Interesting experiment, reporting.

Salt, an ingredient within the Salt Lake.

The Exploitation and Utilization of Salt Lake.

Salt Lake tour is good for our future.

What have we learned so far?

Quote page.

We are happiness!We learned to Seeing is believing!. We can feel the nature with our heart, feel the change, the grandness and vastness of the Salt Lake.We know traveling is a good way to broaden our knowledge and vision!