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Kaohsiung Municipal Hsing Jen Junior High School (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3263)
Taiwan,
Kaohsiung,Taiwan
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 7 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Chien-Chen River in the south of Taiwan.Chien-Chen River starts flowing from Fongshan Lake’s Tachiouchutang mountain area, passing through Fongshan, Mazhu harbor, then down to Chien-Chen area, which is why the locals named it Chien-Chen River. The river circles the Chien-Chen area, and on Chien-Chou road meets with the Chingshan opening of the sea. Full length is about twenty kilometers. The early Chien-Chen River was very wide in width, with clear and transparent water, and it is said that people used to rely on its fishes and water for survival. It is also recorded that, Chien-Chen River have washed down large amount of rocks and mud from the mountain, which accumulated mostly on the river mouth to the sea. In order to open up the harbor, the Japanese sent ships to excavate those rocks and mud from the bottom of the river, and laid them on (what we know of today as) Chien-Chen Middle School and Shinkang Metal Industry. During Industrialization, many chemicals and wasted water was washed down the river, causing severe pollution and unpleasant smell, which is why it is call “Black River”. Currently, the Kaohsiung City government has introduced a “River Water Conservation Project”, in the hopes of improving the river situation, and one-day return to be the beautiful river it once was. Whether the project will succeed, is still something to look forward.
Project Description: Chien-Chen River is our place, development on the river is our community’s responsibility, specially to the teachers and students from Shiren Middle School, it is something to be excited about and look forward. The School, in order to allow students to have a first hand experience with the development project, designed an outdoors teaching system. In addition, to increase our interest and participation, we designed questionnaires to help us interview families and community elders, in the hope of obtaining many stories and legends about the Chien-Chen River. Mr. Huang Yiming, some who cares very much for the community, also wrote four educational materials about local information for the school, which helped us understand more about the local community and history of the place. To everyone at Shinren Middle School, Chien-Chen River is our neighborhood, so since the development program, we have very much wanted to use the opportunity of making the documentary, to ask everyone a few questions: 1. What caused the river’s pollution? 2. What methods and information has the government use during the development program? 3. Has the development program affected local people’s life? 4. After the project, were the estimated results achieved? 5. What hopes do we have for the future Chien-Chen River? We also hope to use the recorded information from Chien-Chen River’s development project to improve environmental protection methods, to love our homelands and nature itself, and to continue cleaning Chien-Chen River and our souls.