White Precious Deposits

Through the operation of the project,students shall learn considerable knowledge about the salt lakes of Qinghai. Further, with a series of propagating activities, more people from schools, families, as well as the society will come to know about Qinghai, and students' affection for their hometown—Qinghai will be strengthened. Also, their abilities as to teamwork cooperation and innovative thinking shall be improved.
Curriculum Standard:
Extracurricular comprehensive learning of the Chinese course shall be carried out with the guidance of Standards of Chinese Courses (Experimental Manuscript), based on Lesson 10 in Textbook No. 1 of Guchengtai Primary School and local students' background knowledge. The project shall take various forms of learning: investigations and studies, field visits and face-to-face interviews, etc, thereby promoting students' learning abilities.
Expected Results:
Through the project, students shall preliminarily learn to exchange information, discuss about cultures and share their resources by means of internet. The project will also explore the power of the team with a series of well-planed, effective propagating activities. Moreover, students' awareness of intellectual property rights will also be cultivated by marking citations.
Needed Resources:
Textbooks; Field visit to Qinghai Institute of Saline Lakes (ISL); Field visit to Qinghai Land and Resources Museum; Publications on salt Lakes (to be provided by ISL); Internet resources
How can the project contribute to classes, schools, the community or the world?
The progress of the project will help enrich the knowledge of students from both schools on salt lake areas will be enriched. During the execution of the project, the team will participate in a series of activities, including:
 inviting an ISL doctor to the school to give a lecture,
 disseminating salt knowledge in aided schools,
 running bulletin boards on salt lakes,
 individually disseminating the knowledge on campus, and
 extending the propagation to families.
The project will not only disseminate salt and salt lake knowledge to classes, schools and families, enabling more people to know about Qinghai salt lakes by the activities of the team, but also publicizing this way of learning with the involvement of classes, schools, and families.
With the growth of their understanding of salt lake areas, students will learn to exchange information, collect, arrange and reprocess resources, and assimilate them in the form of individual learning achievements. They will constantly communicate, understand, influence and encourage one another, resulting in a brilliant study group.
All threads they record will soundly represent the process they come to know about the world, and also the process by which readers come to know them. Through reading their topics, the readers will have a good understanding of salt lake areas and get to know these lovely students.

Category

Geography & Travel > Asia > China


Timeline

Jan. 12, 2009 - May. 04, 2009