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Taipei Municipal Guangfu Primary School (2012 CyberFair Project ID 7127)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 16 student(s) from 10 to 11 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: We live in Taipei, a 120 year old city in the north of Taiwan, and with a population of 2,620,000, it is of considerable size. Aside from being highly developed industrially and commercially, Taipei is also the cultural and political center of Taiwan, and with building a sustainable city being one of our foremost objectives, we are impelled to realize various public policies concerning healthcare and environmental protection. Our school is situated in the bustling East District of Taipei City, right next to Taipei City Hall. In compliance with the government policy of integrated curriculum, our school has successfully established courses that encourage students to engage in them as if they were student club or groups, and integrates resources from the school itself, teachers, parents, community and society as a whole in order to further develop future coursework. We wish to create a unique sense of belonging in this urban jungle, and to thereby realize our vision for education in the new century. During the crisis of plasticizing agents, school authorities actively promoted the importance of food safety, provided teaching tools for teachers to utilize in the classroom, organized skits during morning assembly to demonstrate food safety knowledge so that students may enjoy their meals without consuming excessive amounts of food additives. Eating safely and eating healthily is the only way to bring up children with healthy minds and bodies.
Project Description: Sometime ago we were caught up in the crisis of plasticizing agents in food products, when it was became known that plasticizers causing hormonal changes in the human body had been widely used in consumer products. This issue of chemical additives caught the attention of the general public, and drew inquiries into the nature of food additives. Why is it that the “products” we consume are “foods” enhanced by and treated with chemical additives? The purpose of this project is to begin with the plasticizer crisis and inquire into the nature of food additives, to discover the extent of their usage, and to uncover their potential effects on the human body. We wish, as a further step, to educate consumers how to choose their foods wisely and carefully, to enact our objective with skits, and to promote our slogan of “No Food Additives” at campus fairs, so that more people may learn how to adjust their eating habits, how to say no to artificial flavoring, all with the goal to live a healthier life.