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He-Mu elementary school (2006 CyberFair Project ID 4567)
Taiwan,
Chiayi county
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 5. Local Attractions (Natural and Man-Made)
We estimate 9 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: The building of Ali-mountain railway began in 1984, Japanese occupation period. Taiwan Administration Office planed to develop Ali-mountain forest railway. For shipping wood, they began to explore, measure, and design the railway, the building engineering started in 1986 which was managed by the government. The railway between Chiayi and Er-Wan-Ping with length of 66.6 kilometers was finished and began to run in December 1911. By the necessity of developing forestry affairs, the railway was extended to Ali-mountain and built the other branches in addition. Some of the branches were removed gradually after the wood shipping mission was finished, but keep the main line and the main branches. The present running railway between Chiayi and Ali-mountain with the length of 71.4 kilometers is one of the existing three mountain railways in the world. The length of Ali-mountain forest railway is 71.4 kilometers, which is divided into plain terrain part and mountain terrain part. The plain terrain railway is 14.2 km long which locates between Chiayi and Zhu-Qi with smooth horizon, its camber and slope are quite normal, the least curve radius is 160 meters, the maximum slope is 2%. The mountain terrain railway is 57.2 km long which locates between Zhu-Qi and Ali-mountain with lagging mountains and steep cliffs, is also called mountain line, because of the difficult terrain resisting the path, so the railway around Du-Li hill with length about 5 km should be built spirally and encircled the hill for three times to the top of Du-Li hill. When the train circles up and around the hill, the tourists can see Zhang-Nao-Liao station below the hill for three times, some time right and some time left, then the railway will leave Du-Li hill by “8” type structure. After passing Bing-Zhe-Na station, the first branch of the railway, the construction becomes “Z” type, when driving on these three “Z” type railways, the train moves sometimes pulling, sometimes pushing until it reaches Ali-mountain, so with the fame of “The train of Ali-mountain facing the wall”. Ali-mountain forest railway raises its height from Chiayi city with height of 30 meters above the sea level to Ali-mountain with height of 2,316 meters above the sea level. The tourists can enjoy the different plants living from hot, warm, and cold temperature areas along the way. Also can enjoy the spectacular scenery, like mountain ranges and valleys. Ali-mountain forest railway has been turned its role as sightseeing from wood shipping and residents carrying. Because our school stands at the entrance of National Chiayi county Ali-mountain scenery area, even though Ali-mountain is well-known by now, but it still exists some mystery for the tourists who have never been there. So we try to adopt children’s tales, talking and drawing to introduce this interesting trip of ecology and culture.
Project Description: The activity plan of “Children’s tales and drawing about Ali-mountain” by He-Mu Elementary School, Zhong-Pu Xiang, Chiayi county.
Purpose of the activity: 1.To visit and explore the home town in person in order to improve the understanding by the students about our country. 2.Building the teaching materials scientifically by subjects’ studying. 3.The studying subject of this activity is “Ali-mountain forest railway”. 4.To inspire the students to adore our country by designing activities scientifically. 5.The result of this activity is to participate the Web Fair of Taiwan’s Schools.
The tutorial teachers: Chief of teaching affairs: Miss Wu shu-ru Leader of teaching team: Mr. Chen kun-liang Tutorial teacher: Mr. Chen jian-ming Tutorial teacher: Mr. Lu zhi-ming
Participant students: Wu rui-juan, Luo wei-jia, Xu xun-yuan, Zheng yu-ru, Lai wen-wen , Tang jia-pin, Tu you-da, Chen jing-ning, Jian you-cun
Teaching plan:
Date:12th, October Activity title: Meeting of explaining to parents, Knowing about Ali-mountain railway Activity place: Principle’s office, Computer room
Activity design: 1.Describing the schedule, purpose, and the affairs related to parents. 2.Knowing about Ali-mountain railway. 3.Dividing the students into groups and training them to use the devices. 4.To make all parents and students fully understand the teaching plan. 5.To provide the students with the knowledge of Ali-mountain railway. 6.Dividing the students into data collecting team, art designing team, word editing team, and computer editing team etc. 7.Practicing proficiently to use the devices, like DV, digital camera, recording pen etc.
Date:16th, October(Sunday) Activity title: Visiting Activity place: Bei-men station Activity design: 1.Collecting the information about Bei-men station. 2.Walking on the railway in person to feel the beauty of Ali-mountain railway. 3.Collecting the related pictures and characters of this railway section.
Date:19th, October Activity title: Visiting Activity place: Bei-men station Activity design: 1.To interview the Section leader, Driver, and Chief of station. 2.Learning how to interview and record. 3.Collecting the information about the special personal experience.
Date:23rd, October Activity title: Visiting Activity place: Zhu-Qi, Lu-Man, Du-Li hill Activity design: 1.Visiting Zhu-Qi, Lu-Man, Du-Li hill. 2.Collecting the related pictures and characters of this railway section
Date:26th, October Activity title: Writing What Has Learned and editing Children’s Tales. Activity place: Computer room Activity design: 1.Editing the drawing book from the information which has been collected. 2.Editing Children’s Tales. 3.Writing What Has Learned. 4.Editing computer files from pictures and characters.
Date:29th~30th, October Activity title: Visiting Activity place: Ali-mountain forest recreation area Activity design: 1.Visiting Ali-mountain station 2.Visiting Antique Museum 3.Visiting Zhu-Shan railway and enjoying the sunrise. 4.Sleeping at Ali-mountain
Date:2nd, December and after 9th, December Activity title: Writing What Has Learned and editing Children’s Tales. Activity place: Computer room Activity design: 1.Editing the drawing book from the information which has been collected. 2.Editing Children’s Tales 3.Writing What Has Learned 4.Editing computer files from pictures and characters
Date: 5th~6th, December Activity title: Visiting Activity place: Fen-Qi-Hu Activity design: 1.Visiting the station 2.Visiting the old street 3.Sleeping at Guang-Hua Village 4.Collecting the related pictures and characters of this railway section. 5.To feel the living of mountains.
Compiling the result: 1.Taking it into the home town teaching materials of the school. 2.Editing “Children’s tales and drawing about Ali-mountain” 3.Editing the related drawing books. 4.Producing the learning sheet of Ali-mountain railway.