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Taipei Municipal Wenchang Elementary School (2015 CyberFair Project ID 7949)
Taiwan,
Taipei City 111, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 6 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Long time ago, there were paddy fields and vegetable farms in our community instead of buildings and mansions. Our community is at the foot of Yangminshan National Park. It is surrounded by Shuang-Xi River and Huang River, so the farmers can water crops easily. Besides, the land was very fertile in this area, and that was also the reason why there were paddy fields around in this area before. It was hard to believe without pictures when we heard this story from our grandparents. However, due to the reports of pigwash oil, awful quality of rice, bleached bean sprouts and food product with plasticizer-tainted food, people in the city put more and more emphasis on “healthy food”. In addition to cultivating flowers, more people like to grow vegetables on their balconies. “We take good care of vegetable shoots and regard them as beautiful flowers. The flowers will wither, but the vegetables grown with love would become priceless cuisine,” said the grandmother. We were so touched by these words; therefore, we decided to put it into action: grow vegetables by ourselves for people we loved!
Project Description: In order to protect the environment and health, we were educated, restricted and forbidden to many things, such as “Don’t litter around”, “Don’t pour waste water”, “Don’t drink beverage”, and “Don’t eat junk food”. Too much “Don’ts” make people feel inactive. But this year, there came some differences in our lives. In our school, we had a special “farmer teacher”. Because of the teacher, the vegetables grow much greater this year. My brother, who didn’t like to eat vegetables, ate lots of vegetables during the process of cultivating. Moreover, he asked Mother to teach him how to cook vegetables. I got lots of reflections form the Integrative Activities Project: The Chef of Wenchang, such as “My Brother’s Change”, “The Importance of Food Security”, “The Dreams of Being a Farmer and a Chef”, “Play With Vegetables”. In order to get safe food materials, the chefs of Wenchang had to be farmers, too. They made things become real: They used limited space and pottings to grow organic vegetables. This experience was worthy of promoting. We hope that we can record the process how these Chefs of Wenchang raked the soil, planted the vegetables, harvested the vegetables, and cooked them by this opportunity of attending International CyberFair. On the other side, from the process of recording, we want to keep thinking that how we can promote this experience to our community, so every family can have a vegetable farm on their own. We hope the concept of loving earth and lives can be deeply rooted in people, and every person can lead to a healthy life.