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2009
Through the operation of the project，students shall learn considerable knowledge about the salt lakes of Qinghai. Further, with a series of propagating activities, more people from schools, families, as well as the society will come to know about Qinghai, and students' affection for their hometown—Qinghai will be strengthened. Also, their abilities as to teamwork cooperation and innovative thinking shall be improved.
Curriculum Standard:
Extracurricular comprehensive learning of the Chinese course shall be carried out with the guidance of Standards of Chinese Courses (Experimental Manuscript), based on Lesson 10 in Textbook No. 1 of Guchengtai Primary School and local students' background knowledge. The project shall take various forms of learning: investigations and studies, field visits and face-to-face interviews, etc, thereby promoting students' learning abilities.
Expected Results:
Through the project, students shall preliminarily learn to exchange information, discuss about cultures and share their resources by means of internet. The project will also explore the power of the team with a series of well-planed, effective propagating activities. Moreover, students' awareness of intellectual property rights will also be cultivated by marking citations.
Needed Resources:
Textbooks; Field visit to Qinghai Institute of Saline Lakes (ISL); Field visit to Qinghai Land and Resources Museum; Publications on salt Lakes (to be provided by ISL); Internet resources
How can the project contribute to classes, schools, the community or the world?
The progress of the project will help enrich the knowledge of students from both schools on salt lake areas will be enriched. During the execution of the project, the team will participate in a series of activities, including:
inviting an ISL doctor to the school to give a lecture,
disseminating salt knowledge in aided schools,
running bulletin boards on salt lakes,
individually disseminating the knowledge on campus, and
extending the propagation to families.
The project will not only disseminate salt and salt lake knowledge to classes, schools and families, enabling more people to know about Qinghai salt lakes by the activities of the team, but also publicizing this way of learning with the involvement of classes, schools, and families.
With the growth of their understanding of salt lake areas, students will learn to exchange information, collect, arrange and reprocess resources, and assimilate them in the form of individual learning achievements. They will constantly communicate, understand, influence and encourage one another, resulting in a brilliant study group.
All threads they record will soundly represent the process they come to know about the world, and also the process by which readers come to know them. Through reading their topics, the readers will have a good understanding of salt lake areas and get to know these lovely students.
Team
ziyueguchengtaixiaoxue, 青海 QingHai, China
lingguchengtaixiaoxue, 青海 QingHai, China
jianguchengtaixiaoxue, 青海 QingHai, China
liminguchengtaixiaoxue, 青海 QingHai, China
yanyuQinghai Xining Chengbei District Mafang Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China
Age Range
12 & under
Coaches
ke tianQinghai Xining Chengbei District Mafang Primary School, 青海 QingHai, China
man huangguchengtaixiaoxue, 青海 QingHai, China
Category
Geography & Travel > Asia > China
Audience
All ages
Language
English
Team Collaboration
Teamwork Cooperation:
In the team, the coach and the assistant coach will mainly instruct the students, help them to undergo a meaningful learning experience and guide them to think actively. The team members, however, will understand and help each other among themselves. They will not only participate in various assignments but also think actively, putting forward valuable promising proposals or opinions. Each member has his or her own strength, and they will cooperate and understand each other so well that everyone can turn up with their best performance, hence maximizing the project achievements.
Their successful cooperation will be represented by: First, they can form a solid team and carry out active and effective investigative learning. Second, they can communicate and interact actively among themselves. Third, while vigorously building their knowledge, they can develop distinctive learning attitudes and value experience.
It's necessary to give some special comments about our captain (monitor) and recording secretary. The monitor has fully exhibited his strong points in the project, whose organizing and coordination work has been brilliant. At times, he put forward some novel, perfectly feasible and simple proposals, contributing significantly to the merits of the activities. The recorder, on the other hand, made a detailed and informative record of all discussions and resolutions of the team, based on which the team carried on the tasks in an efficient way.
Team Diversity
Team Variability:
The team is made up of students from two different districts: 4 students from Guchengtai Primary School and another one from Mafang Primary School. Guchengtai Primary School is situated in the more prosperous western district of Xining. This district is an academic, cultural, and education center, where schooling is highly appreciated. The school has good teaching facilities and the students all live in downtown areas. However, Mafang Primary School is in the northern proper （suburban area） of Xining, where teaching conditions are relatively unfavorable with most students living in the countryside.
The involvement of two schools in the project will promote exchanges between schools from downtown and rural areas. The kids from both schools can help, understand and interact with each other, strengthening their friendship and growing together. This can be noticed on the project pages. The students have made any effort to overcome many difficulties to carry out this project. One student of Guchengtai Primary School, who is born of the Mongolian minority and has just transferred from Inner Mongolia, is a stranger in Qinghai. He has learned a lot about Qinghai through participating in the activities.
