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Mingho elementary School (2005 CyberFair Project ID 4096)
Taiwan,
Chiayi County
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 11 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Our school, Min Ho Elementary School, is located in Min Ho Village, Chiayi County, Taiwan. This village is near the foot of famous Ali Mountain, and close to Ren Yi Reservoir and Ba Zhang River. The climate here provides enough and adequate rain, so many people plant fruits, especially persimmons, which become the main agricultural products in our community. The ground of plants in the campus is about 70 % of all the area, and there are varieties of land living plants. After building these four wetlands, we have found more and more water living plants and animals. Therefore, the ecosystem in our campus grows more prosperous. Most of the plants are provided by the parents and people from our community, the story of these four wetlands has got much concern from school and community.
Project Description: Summary of the project: In summer night, we can hear the sound of toads in the wetlands. The original place of wetlands stood some old buildings, but nowadays we can see and hear lots of plants and animals in the wetlands. In the beginning, this place even attracted mosquitoes which were not welcomed, so we put some fish like, gambusia affinis, macropodus opercularis, then we can hardly see mosquitoes. Besides fish, we can also see other animals, for example, hundreds of dragonflies always fly near the wetlands. In the part of plants, we have known 66 kinds of plants which we know their names, and still lots of more unknown plants in the wetlands. The prosperous plants attract students and people from our community to watch. By the reports of newspaper, more and more people know our wetlands, and many people including some former students come back to visit and see the wetlands. The theme of our project is to study how do the plants and animals do with the wetlands. During the time, we interviewed out principal, teachers, and people who help build the wetland, and we keep doing the research on the wetlands. We hope to work on this field and people can know the importance of ecology and see the beauty of different lives.