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Ren De Junior High school (2003 CyberFair Project ID 2745)
Taiwan,
Tainan
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 5 student(s) from 13 to 13 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Our Local Community Since Tsuo-Chen Man’s skull and teeth were found in Tsai-Liao River, Nan-Yin (Tainan County) has thus become the origin place for research on Paleolithic Age and also is the area that the most abundant fossils were unearthed in Taiwan. Tsuo-Cen, a township known for the discovery of Cretaceous soil, has the rough terrain features dry dirt and few plants. Yet its terrain has preserved many fossils. It was not until Father of fossils—Mr. Chun-Mu Chen found fossils in Tsai-Liao River during Japanese-colonial era that Taiwanese started to pay attention on fossils. Mr. Liang-Chieh Wang who works in our neighborhood (Ren Deh Township) has collected fossils during the past eleven years ever since he was obsessed by the magic power of fossils. He studied a large number of books; he also inquired of specialists and scholars until he acquired most of the knowledge about fossils and thus teaches fossils in Tainan Community University. Our students of Ren Deh Junior High School are lucky to have acquainted with Mr. Wang. It must have been Mr. Wang’s efforts and persistence on fossils that drive the students to study fossils. It is the young generation’s interest in fossils that research on fossils may keep on growing and flowering.
Project Description: General Information of the project The project starts with a student’s journal and then goes to the research on fossils in Nan-Yin. To meet demands on courses of the Nine-Year Educational Program, we divide the project into two parts: The first part includes academic terms and an interview of Mr. Liang-Chieh Wang—this part is rather academic; the second part includes materials of a fossil exhibition, a lecture and students’ reflections on collecting fossils—this part is rather educative. To show the originality of this project, we left second information behind and asked Mr. Chih-Peng Chen to draw animals’ skeletons, charts of geological evolution and routes of our collecting fossils. Among these original materials, there are topics about Tsuo-Chen Fossil Museum, life of Mr. Chun-Mu Chen, illustrations of terms, introduction of Hsinhua Hills, and records of collection. We hope this project will allow more people to know fossils and thus love our own culture and hometown.