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Jiantan Elementary School (2016 CyberFair Project ID 8069)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 5. Local Attractions (Natural and Man-Made)
We estimate 10 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Taipei Municipal Jiantan Elementary School is located in Taipei City, Shilin District, where vital functionality is found. It is near Yangmingshan National Park and the Pingding Ancient channel under the jurisdiction is quite exceptional, which was named as “Cultural Landscape” in 2009 and became the important cultural asset of Taipei City. Ancient channel is located in Pingdeng Village, Shilling District of Taipei City. It was developed in the Qing Dynasty and completed during Japanese Ruling Period. Today it covers three channels, namely the Ancient Channel, New Channel and Dengfong Channel. The early purpose mainly involved with reclamation and water supply and is not the key source for irrigation and livelihood water supply. The water quality of Ancient channel is clear and currently still preserves the original look built from the Qing Dynasty. The local residents and Chi-Sing Irrigation Association renovated the channel through nature-friendly techniques to preserve the rich ecology resource of this area and attract tourists to visit. The three channel routes in a total length of 14 kilometers is further designed into a hiking trail so that the ancient channel becomes the only “ecology” survived in the city. We expect to explore into the channel building techniques in-depth from the research and acquaint more people with the channel, and cherish the local water resource.
Project Description: The project research objectives are divided into five objectives, namely: (1) Discuss the development history of Pingding Ancient Channel Acquaint students with the development process of channel and find out the relationship between the channel road and local industries. (2) Visit Pingding ancient channel maintenance activity Lead students to visit channel and acquaint with the different aqueduct techniques in order to understand the importance of maintaining water resource. (3) Introduce the main maintenance organization of ancient channel – Chi-Sing Irrigation Association Discuss which maintenance and promotion works does the Irrigation Association involve and acquaint with the various irrigation facilities. (4) Channel acquaintance and advocacy Design questionnaire and conduct promotion to bring attention from people on the development history of channels and learn to care for local resources. We expect to acquaint with the three Pingding channel roads in-depth through the assistance from Irrigation Association and local residents, so that students will leave knowledge form text and take in-field survey to understand the importance of channel in Taiwan’s irrigation history. (5) Combine local tourism promotion Promoting in themes on Pingding ancient channel and extend outward to acquaint with local industries before singing a series of journeys that will allow more people to take short trips and understand the fun brought by channel visit more easily.