School: Jyh-sheuh Primary School
    Hualien County, Taiwan, Taiwan

11 students, ages 9-12 aged pupils worked together to complete this CyberFair project on February 1, 2004. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2000

Classes and Teachers: Yi-Feng, Huang

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.jsps.hlc.edu.tw

1. Description of Our Community

Hualien is located in the eastern part of Taiwan. Hulaien is the largest city on the east coast and the smallest population density. It is a center for tourism, as it is close to Taroko Gorge, the East Coast, and the Hua-Tong Valley.

In recent years, National Dong Hwa University, located in Shou-Feng, Hualien County, is the first comprehensive university in the east coast of Taiwan. One of the specialties the University sets out to develop is the research and teaching of natural resource conservation and national high-tech development. Therefore, by doing this- “Eastern Taiwan’s K-12 Promoting and Training Center for Nano-Science and Technology” project, students can realize and have a further understanding about the relationship between the center and eastern local development.

2. Summary of Our Project

Nano is the highest and hottest Science and Technology in the world. In Taiwan, people from all walks of life are dedicating to promoting the related projects. In National Dong Hwa University, the K-12 Promoting and Training Center for Nano-Science and Technology is established in order to cultivate diversified, creative, worldwide, intellectual, and innovative talented people. Therefore, in the K-12 project, the aim is to encourage pupils to realize and have a further understanding about what Nano is and how close the relationship between the Nano-Science and Technology and their daily lives by probing into understanding this center and the organization.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:21-50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

ADSL (384K/ 1.536MBps) school network, a computer center with 32 computers, one computer for the teacher, and one NT server, 2 notebooks, 2 digital cameras, 2 scanners, and 2 recorders.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

The following are problems that we had overcome. 1.Recruiting Members. 2.Technical Obstacles. 3.Teamwork and Communication. 4.Facility Problems . 5.Interviewing Experiences. 6.Reading Strategies. 7.Recording and inspiration collections. 8.Time. 9.Transportation. 10.Lake of Nano Knowledge.

If you want to know more details, please link the following URL. http://gsh.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2004/3179/1-2.htm

5. Our Project Sound Bite

To seed in the field of Nano, That we have been through and done, The folowers full of warm-bloodedness, Are going to bolossom one by one in wildnerness of plain, Let the grow of this season blaze up, In the sun's face which just rises in the Eastern of Taiwan.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

According to seven learning curriculums:

1. Language Area:

After collecting relevant materials, the abilities of reading, analyzing, organizing, expressing feeling and oral reporting are built up gradually. In order words, the multiple abilities of reading, writing, speaking and listening are trained during the process.

2. Society Area:

Making use of local resources (such as National Dong Hwa University) and probing into regional development are highly evaluated. The close relationship between human and science-technology is fully understood.

3. Math. Area

The abilities of gathering statistics, counters and questionnaires and counting millimeters, microns, and Nano are improved a lot.

4. Nature and Science-Technology Area

Exploring ourselves into the nature and Science-Technology is mutual implication. For example, the knowledge of Nano living phenomenon in our environment and the interaction between technological civilizations are related to each other. Moreover, during the process, students visit the K-12 center and Nano laboratory and learn how to use high-tech facilities. They are fruitful in natural knowledge.

5. Health and Physical Area

During the process, time management, meeting schedule, and living education are aroused.

6. Art and Human Area

By video taping, art designing, and color managing, the knowledge of art and humane can be made use well.

7. Integrating Area

The spirits of cooperating, communicating, contacting, observing, interviewing, and activities designing are encouraged.

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Most facilities are provided by our school. The technological facilities we use are mentioned as below.

Oral Interview:

We visit Nano experts, Nano center and laboratory. In this way, we understand more about Nano center and training program.

Internet:

We use Internet to search for relevant information.

Set up W-kinds website:

Teachers create a w-kinds workshop for us and we can post all information related to the project to this website, such as our feelings, collections, or works, etc.

Books, Newspapers, and Magazines:

Use books, newspapers, or magazines to look for some useful information for us to have a further understanding this monographic study.

Recorder:

We can record the process of our interview to help us translate into words.

Digital Cameras or Hi-8:

We can video our process.

Scanners and Printers:

We can make use of scanners to process our pictures or photos. Moreover, we can print out relevant information for us to read more easily.

Telephones and Fax Machines:

We can contact with professors or experts by telephones or fax machines.

Computer Software:

WS-FTP, WORD, FrontPage, Photo Impact, Explore

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

1. At school, we can share our experiences or inspirations with others by W-kinds website. We hope that they can have interests in Nano as well and know the existence of the worldwide exhibition. Moreover, we hope that we can get some feedbacks by E-mail, discussion groups, message boards and so on.

2. We can broadcast our project by one broadcasting station “The sound of Chih-Hsueh.” By so doing, many people can understand what we do.

3. We also can attend the interview of education broadcasting station. For example, teachers lead us to the station. We can express our views and experiences of setting up w-kids website to the public.

4. We design questionnaire for teachers, parents and students to fill in. We hope that they can understand more about Nano by this survey.

5. We hold performance party at our school. In this way, we can share our results to all school members.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

1. Combine the academic study’s atmosphere of Chih-Hsueh community and Dong Hwa University.

By our action research, people from this community can understand more about the academic study and contribution of Dong Hwa University and draw the distance closely between experts or professors and habitants. For example, my neighbors and family all know that we are doing the monographic study about Nano-Science and Technology.

2. Bring positive academic atmosphere at school:

Teachers and schools know that we are joining in the activity of the worldwide exhibition and they want to have a further understanding about our topics and research directions. We believe that there will be more and more teachers and students want to join in this group.

3. Set up a good relationship between school and locality.

Three professors, Ming-Shou Weng, Kien-Wen Sun, and Chen-Hai Tasng welcome us to visit Dong Hwa University and make use of their laboratory.

4. Explore our technological development in our countryside.

The technology is the eastern part is not so prosperous. Through the interview, we understand the importance of establishing Nano center in the eastern Taiwan. Form the stories of those professors, we learn the spirits of their research and the sense of the mission that high-tech skills bring some convenience to our country.

5. The monographic site can be viewed as a teaching material.

In this project, we design an experimental Nano activity-“The Effect of the Lotus.” For example, teachers assist us to post our schedules, experimental process, Nano knowledge, inspirations and retrospect on the website. It is such a good teaching resource. Through the shared monographic homepages or website, we can combine and regard them as a part of elementary curriculum.

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

　　We should thank many people to help us finish “The academic Nano Palace of Hua-Tong Valley” successfully. First, we want to appreciate professor, Fa-Cheng Li, because he provides us with useful Nano knowledge and training courses. Moreover, he asks five of his colleagues as our Nano seed-teachers. During the process of doing the project, they assist us a lot.

Second, we want to thank for our Mr. Jun-Chi Cheng teacher. He had ever joined the program of K-12 seed-teachers’ training. He teaches us much knowledge about Nano, so we are not afraid that we are not familiar with them. We rally appreciate his kindness. Finally, we want to express our thankfulness to those Nano experts. Without their instruction and assistant, we can’t finish this project successfully. We also want to thank for those professors’ help from the K-12 center.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

When we heard the Nano for the first time, no body knows what Nano is, we thought that it was a kind of delicious rice, like Chih-Shang rice. (A very famous rice in Taiwan) After learning, what’s a surprise, we knew that Nano is actually a kind of length, the unit of one 100 millions. It is a unit of chemistry-physical molecule or atom. Although we haven’t learned form science class, we are curious about it. In recent years, scientists make use of it to invent some good high-tech products. Moreover, some of them teach elementary pupils the Nano knowledge. Nowadays, Taiwan’s competition is worse than ever before, so we should let our country be active by this technology and let our society become more stable between nationalities.

Nano is not easy to learn. What we call K-12 means 12 years of Nano instructions from kindergarten to senior high school, even if many manufacturers want to know the structure of Nano. Actually, we can hear it frequently from ads or media. So, universities all over Taiwan provide Nano programs to teach students.

From this Nano research, we know the importance of K-12 center, we also see the Nano development of how Dong Hwa University integrates people and facilities. For example, we saw an electronic microscope which cost one thousand million dollars and the production of Nano diamond and the laser labs of the catalytic. We feel so glad to have this valuable chance to visit them. We also know the important relationship between this technology and daily lives from those scientists and professors.