School: Hsin-Chia Elementary School
    Tainan Country, Taiwan Province, Taiwan

10 students, ages 11-12 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 16, 2006. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2006

Classes and Teachers: Hung Ni-Chun,Chou Chun-Lin,Lin Chan-Hung,Lai Fang-Mei

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.sj2es.tnc.edu.tw/

1. Description of Our Community

Houbi Township is located Tainan county, the terrain is gentle, the entire boundary is the plain. On the entire humanities landscape, Houbi Township presents the plain agriculture villages and towns the color, the countryside style everywhere obviously. In addition, within the boundaries some main settlements commercial activities also really gentle, if with is close to the villages and towns to compare, its development speed is slower.

2. Summary of Our Project

Taiwan Orchid Plantation position to Houbi Township, is the Tainan county development key type construction. The orchid at present already became Houbi Township important industry, because Taiwan Orchid Plantation certainly can affect to Houbi Township orchid industry, therefore, our school plan take Taiwan Orchid Plantation as the subject, led the student to carry on the garden area establishment the background, the process and the prospect discussion, but besides made some introductions

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:1

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):

Our school has a computer classroom, the nearly clear classroom all has a computer, the entire school computer all may penetrate the optical fiber segment to link to the Nan county network center to the Taiwan academic network. Our campus network is a region network, each computer all may the resources share.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

(1) The material pursues the difficulty:Taiwan Orchid Plantation is this two years only then tenable, the written material are not many. Therefore we have to look up the material by the network, again acts according to the content which converses to reorganize, this is we carries on when investigation meets the biggest difficult problem. (2) Personnel time arrangement:Because the school elastic curriculum has arranges the school standard the curriculum, does not have the blank the curriculum to be allowed to use, therefore we use the midday rest the time, Wednesday afternoon, as well as the afternoon is on vacation from school the after time, everybody set discussion subject overhead construction, visit question, material pursuing. (3) Transportation aspect:Taiwan Orchid Plantation and the saccharine agriculture center certainly in ours community, also does not have section of very great distances to our school, therefore the transportation side faces us is a major problem, this on the one hand, we ask teacher to assist, to ask teacher to drive carry us to visit the orchid biotechnology garden area and the saccharine agriculture center.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

(1)Teacher:Penetration, the student and teachers all obtains many knowledge, and further establishes the local information bank. (2)Students:This special study besides lets me know the orchid, also had known how plants with the use orchid arrangement. Also has visits Taiwan Orchid Plantation also to let me know the place the industry, may say the harvest are very many.

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

Nine years consistent curriculum emphasized the teacher lively creativity the teaching material teaches the law, utilizes multi- Yuan Pingliang the way to inspire student many Yuan wisdoms, lets the different on potential the students all can display own specialty, true achieving 'suitability development'. But we this special study, the belt student is going out together the visit, broke the tradition only to be able to obtain the knowledge in the classroom the environment, raised can have the solution question in the practical life the ability, believed the harvest had to be returns home with a full load! So-called we want 'the knowledge which the belt walks, but is not the back motionless book bag'! Participates in this research plan, not only lets the teacher promote the specialized knowledge energy, displays own specialty to instruct the student; The child also learned has had to penetrate the unceasing discussion and to cordinate completes, understands the association cooperation the importance, and let the student from the passive knowledge custom, transformed initiative constructs the construction knowledge, fully probe and raise interest and ability. Believed the affiliation by this research, everybody all grew many!

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

E-MAIL, telephone:Usual netting Internet:Seeks the correlation data Library:Pursues the correlation written material Television:Looks at the movie Camera:Photography Computer software:Edition homepage,? PhotoImpact8.0?FrontPagexp?Microsoft Wordxp?Internet Explorer?FTP

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

The Taiwan Orchid Plantation establishment symbol orchid has become Houbi Township the standard industry, but because the establishment time is short, the written material are not certainly many, the network material also many only stops to the news propaganda. The body is a Houbi Township individual contribution, we should even more understand this garden area the development, and further introduced knew for everybody. In inquires in the process, garden area Miss Lu and Miss Shen has given us many help, but also leads us to visit the greenhouse. In addition, how does teacher teach us a kind of orchid and makes the arrangement with the orchid, also lets us even more be intimate with the orchid. We also let the county government news room interview because of such activity!

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

We conducted the local homepage special study already to continue for several years, each item all with Houbi Township correlation. This year we in addition have conducted recently several year only then tenable Taiwan Orchid Plantation research, hoped slowly constructs constructs the integrity Houbi the Township person literature and history material, also lets teacher have more references in the local teaching.

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

The workers in Taiwan Orchid Plantation gave us a lot of information and knowledge about the orchid when we visited Taiwan Orchid Plantation. And the men of our community had teached and helped us how to plant the orchid.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

In the material quotation part, the homepage content if quotes, then can under the homepage or this unit ending enclosed explanation, if network material, then ultra adds on this homepage to link. The garden area correlation data also again passes through after completing garden area personnel's reading and the confirmation. Are partial in the picture, the homepage uses the picture mostly comes from teacher or the student voluntarily photographs, if has the quotation also all to pass through the participant or the garden area agreement, should the non- copyright dispute.