1. Description of Our Community
In this project, we investigated the difference between the habits of people in different places when they are eating ice. We mainly investigated the people in Northern Taiwan, especially the ones in New Taipei City. Still, we observed the people in other places in Taiwan. We observed different types of people about their habits, not limited to age, identity, etc.. In conclusion, you will be informed about the different habits of ice eating by different types of people.
2. Summary of Our Project
On our website, we provide information about the ice in Taiwan. Ice plays an essential role in Taiwan. We are in a subtropical area, so when the weather gets extremely hot, ice is something we use to cool down. We identify the types of ice that are popular here in Taiwan, and also how much the people here like ice. We also included the history of ice in Taiwan, since it is one of the most important reasons why people are eating ice so often. Ice plays an important role in Taiwanese culture, and “breaking the ice” between ice and us is totally worth it.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
We’ve been facing a lot of challenges and problems since we are doing this project. For example, we pondered about the ice traditions’ scope limit and the types we are doing. Second, we couldn’t successfully contact the ice shop, or the ice shop is unwilling to be interviewed, so we are considering changing the type of interview object. Next, our project across the season of winter, many ice shops have closed down, so it is hard to find a shop that continues doing business. Last, it is difficult to popularize and send out questionnaires and organize. These problems affect our project progress very much.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
It is a great honor for students to participate in this cyber fair. We want to let everyone know more about Linkou ice, so we join this competition to let everyone interested and know about it. We wanted to make Linkou ice more famous.
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
We have this after-school elective course, we have to spend the other time working on this competition. When we are having an after-school elective course, we are going to organize information about our topic. We also have to visit the other ice shops to more understand what happens during their shop. We also need to interview content discussion, form to collect information, and literature discussion. In this course, we learn some skills about searching for information and being more confident when facing strangers when you want to interview them. We learn to discuss with others, share ideas, and work together as a team during the course. We can search information online to let us better understand specific ideas and ask the shop owner. About projects that fit into the requirements of school, we’ll first discuss the topic we want, and school always wants some good reasons about why we do this topic, so we need to discover and to find out somethings in our life, and try to persuade the school. The discoveries about our school’s education’s benefits is they want you to have your own idea, not just copy others or just the idea from the teacher, I think it’s a good way for students. Using the internet to learn is better than the traditional way (no electric products), because students can have more information and ideas, like our traditional way to teach, we just can use the limited information to search. The internet's information is more than just using books, and it will be very helpful when we use the internet.
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