Project Elements

How did your activities and research for this Cyberfair Project support standards, required coursework and course standards?

1.Integration with environmental education course

The purpose of environmental education is mainly to cultivate the awareness of environmental protection and local concern of all people, teach correct environmental protection knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of caring for the environment, and jointly create a healthier and more comfortable living environment. The learning of environmental education course helps us to have a more correct understanding of the concept of circular economy, environmental protection, and energy conservation. Hopefully, everyone can care for our communities and the earth with the correct concept of ecological environmental protection. The purpose of this research project is mainly to enable everyone to understand that the issue of climate change is actually closely related to everyone. Although our economy is growing rapidly, the environmental load has increased along with the economic growth. For example, when a typhoon comes, it always causes flooding or landslides. The reason is that the environment is over-developed, our green space is getting less and less, and there are factories and buildings everywhere. In order to protect the ecological environment where we live and slow down global warming, our research project focuses on ecology, environmental protection, energy saving, and “circular economy” as the theme aiming to awaken everyone to maintain the sustainable ecology of the earth.

2.Integration with local education course

The purpose of local education is to enable us to understand the humanity, geography, and natural environment of our hometown for better understanding of the history and characters of our hometown and cultivation of our care for living on this land. During the implementation of this research project, we used Wednesday afternoons to visit the places related to the theme to collect data and take pictures, edit the information and research data collected on the webpage, and share our research results with other classmates through the Internet. The research theme is to enable everyone to learn more about the environment of our hometown and care more about the plants and trees of our hometown. Hopefully, everyone will take specific actions to protect our hometown.

3.Combination with nature science and living technology course

We used technological tools—digital cameras and digital voice recorders—to collect the information on the people, things, and objects we observed one by one. Moreover, we also searched for information through the school network and used the school computer to transmit our research reports and research progress online on time. More importantly, we used the various software and hardware tools we learned to post our research results on specific web pages and shared our joy and research results with everyone.

4.Mathematics field

In this research project, the questionnaire was one of the sources of our research data. We sorted the returned questionnaires, counted the frequency of each option respectively, entered the data into the computer to calculate the percentage and form a statistical chart. Lastly, we gave explanations about the analysis results.

What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your Cyberfair project? 

In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyberfair project both on-line and in person. 

1.On-site visits
We used the opportunity of each on-site visit to explain the theme and purpose of our research project. According to the research project, we interviewed scholars and experts, government officials, and private enterprises in person, hoping to learn more about circular economy, environmental protection, and energy conservation, as well as their opinions on issues from the interviews.
2.Parent participation
Parents were encouraged to be a part of us and participate in the research project together.
3.Community interviews
We performed on-site interviews and questionnaire survey to enable community residents to learn of our research theme and purpose. Our purpose was to understand the opinions of the community residents on circular economy, as well as to promote the concept of environmental protection and energy conservation and the ecological environment crisis faced by the earth and human beings during the interviews.
4.School propaganda
The schoolteachers have been supportive to our research project and encouraged us from time to time. On each occasion, the principal and director took the opportunity to let everyone know about our research theme, which was also conveyed to parents to request everyone to provide resources and assistances. The principal and directors played the best roles as our best “ambassadors” and spokespersons at school.

What has been the impact of your project on your community?

During the research project, we believe that human beings and the earth are a community of life. However, currently, human beings continue to consume the earth’s resources and create pollution for their own economic development, which not only jeopardizes human health, but also creates crises to the earth. For example, the deterioration of the ecological environment, serious pollution, and the depletion of earth resources, have caused crises to human beings. Although the over-exploitation caused by economic development cause some problems to the environment, if we take actions in time and implement appropriate policies and measures, these problems can be solved. Therefore, hopefully, the future development should not prioritize human beings, but should prioritize environment to reach the balance between human beings and ecological environment and develop sustainable circular economy, which requires the joint support and practice of everyone.

Intellectual Property Rights

According to the research project, we started to collect and read a lot of materials, divided labor, discussed with each other, and sorted out the contents of the research project report step by step. In addition to books and journals, sources of data also included data from the Internet and provided by interviewees. For the materials and pictures quoted on the Project webpage, in addition to indicating the sources of the cited data in the webpage content, we only officially quoted them after obtaining the consent and authorization of the information provider. We would like to express our gratitude for our information providers. Were it not for their support, we could not have made our project content so exciting and abundant.

Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises

In recent years, various countries around the world have begun to attach importance to the issue of “circular economy,” with an aim to take into account the coexistence relationship between human economic development and the ecological environment, in order to achieve the sustainable development of the earth. Therefore, in order to achieve sustainable development of the earth, it is impossible for only a few people to recycle resources or save energy and reduce carbon emissions. Instead, all people must take actions for environmental protection and energy conservation. In this way, a different appearance of “sustainable earth” will be presented in the end. Lastly, we believe that the deterioration of global warming and climate change are established facts, and the living environment of human beings will be increasingly affected by extreme climate. Since a large number of people gather in cities, once a disaster occurs, the damage may be even greater. Hopefully, this research project may awaken everyone to cherish the earth’s resources, care for the environment, implement the concept of sustainable environment, and jointly create a healthy and comfortable living environment for the cities where we live.

References: written by the research team
Image Source:Photographed by the research team

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