Library > Geography & Travel > Asia > China
China
(7)
12 & Under
2008
"Dragons in Chinese culture" is a website in which there are lots of information and resources about Chinese dragons in Chinese culture. It doesn't convey the only message that dragons are equal to Chinese culture. Instead,people can know more about different aspects of Chinese culture from the contents and resources of the website.
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2009
My Project：Our Miraculous Travel to the Salt Lake
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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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2009
Through the students to use cameras, MP3, pen, record, observe the mother river pollution, inspire students to protect the ecological environment, such as throwing garbage so that students have good habit to protect ecological environment.
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2009
Coach guided students to explain Changchun City by the most famous and most representative of human landscape: Movie Wonder Land. Let everyone know their own hometown. Under the guidance of the coach，students were divided to 3 groups to collect information.
Through the information collection process, raised students’ observing ability and the contacting ability; through the process of organizing information trained students to summarize and analyze information, improved their systems thinking ability, language ability and expressing ability. Finally, through the introducing process trained students’ language expression ability.
About this site
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 toQinghai 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.
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2006
Pack your bags and get ready for an exciting virtual trip around the world! Take a journey across the four oceans to experience the wonderful culture, cuisine, scenery, and much more of these diverse countries. You can do all of this all in one day, and it's educational!
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2003
We searched many legends and historical stories about the lion dance. The most important process is making the lion head by ourselves. It was an exciting experience for us. Although this was the hardest step in our project, we we still finish the lion head at all.
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