Changing Cambodia 2014-2015

In my school call Liger Learning Center we have our big goal is to change Cambodia in future. Anyway, we are already change Cambodia a lot how people learn and some of the things help with there knowledge and there future. One of the biggest thing that I did and it is make a lot of change in Cambodia is Animals Guide. Animals Guide is the group with thirteen students and we wrote information about animals that almost extinct in Cambodia(Tiger, elephant, and some other animals). Some of the basic steps are first we pick the species and we research about that species information, also there are about  100 species of animal and some of ecosystem(forest like, evergreen forest). We also have trip to interview people that are expect with animals. When we research we paint the animals that we get support from Art In Box. The last thing is we need to translate from English to Khmer because we want Cambodian students to learn about the animals. When we public it hard for student to buy there own books so we print the books, mugs, shirts and some other stuff to sell in big event. All the money that we get from the profit of selling products to print the books for the students that don’t have enough ability to have money to buy the books. The final book name is An Illustrated Guide to Wildlife of Cambodia.

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Photography

Here is my expertise call Photography and we learn about how to capture the photo. In this learning we want to improve our skill in taking picture because we have a lot of things that need to capture by camera like trip projects and other events. How our expertise work in class we learn about one thing then we practice.

Here are some pictures our students capture.

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Ministry day

Ministry day is one of the best day for Liger student share our knowing and what we had done. I am in STEAM in action. STEAM is mean science, technology, engineering, art, and math. I am so happy that I can teach the director of the school come from all around Phnom Penh. Our team tell them how we can use roller coaster to help our learning. For example we build the roller coaster and it can’t go up the hill why it can’t go because don’t have enough potential energy. We present well because we had practices many time. First time I kind of scare and I don’t want to present but when I present to them, they are kind and nice it make me feel better. When I present they got every question that make our group hard to answer .We got 25 minute to present to each team and we got seven team. When we hear sound of bell no matter what we do we need to move them all to our group.

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Animals guild

I  have been in animal guild what I did was researched about the animals. We have a lot of trip to a lot of place to learned animals from expert. We so focus and we have lot of commitment. Our group created one book about ecology it have about 84  species. How can we made this book. We have 13 students to researched and about 45 students paint. Before we painted the people who researched need to tell the characteristic and habitat. All people in painting needed to practiced learned how to draw and paint. Now we have one book name Cambodia Animals Guild.

Economic

The graph I make
The graph I make

 

 

Rice production

This when I in economic class and what I do in class.

The graph show the Demand change or shift. The thing that make the graph shift out is Taste/preference. The graph of Demand rice is shift out. The reason that make the graph of Demand shift rice out because the people they need more.They need more food the reason is they hard to grow.The first equilibrium point when it $6 they can sale 135 Kg. The second equilibrium point the price of supply increase to $7 and the quantity of rice increase to 155 Kg.

The link of the graph

Forest Ecology

Exploration Name: Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology (Eco 4)

Date: August 13 – October 03

Number of student: 12

 

Essential Questions:

  1. How are organisms and the non-living environment interconnected in the world around us?
  2. What is the value of TROPICAL FOREST for Cambodia?
  3. How do humans IMPACT tropical ecosystems in Cambodia?
  4. How can we use our knowledge about ECOLOGY to help improve Cambodia?

 

Trips:

Kong Kong ( 1 week)

Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center  (1 day)

 

Description:

In Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology we studied about the Ecosystems in Cambodia and all around the world. We also learned about the many Ecological Relationships in  ecosystems.

 

In this exploration we want to change Cambodia by giving Cambodian people the knowledge about the forest and the animals in Cambodia from our experience. We also want to protect the animals in Cambodia from the hunter also to help save the endangered animals.

 

Our exploration took a trip to Koh Kong to learn more about forest in Koh Kong. When we were there we went into the forest and we slept at the campsite.On our trip we walked in the forest, swam at the waterfall and slept in the forest. We also went to Mangrove forest and then we came back to Liger. We also took a trip to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center to learn about the siamese crocodile and the moon bear and sun bear. At there we met a lot of people from Free The Bears and Flora Fauna International and they taught us about the animals in the zoo.


In the classroom we learned a lot of things and we worked on projects in small groups.   Our projects were about Ecological Relationships, different biomes around the world, Food Web in Koh Kong, Makey Makey Project, and Science Museum Blog. Our highlights are to understand how important the plants and animal are. Also to know about different organizations that help the animals and to understand clearly about their goal and how can they help Cambodia.

Food web in cambodia

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When we go to the Zoo to learn about animals.

 

Forest Ecology In Cambodia

Exploration Name: Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology (Eco 4)

Date: August 13 – October 03

Number of student: 12

 

Essential Questions:

  1. How are organisms and the non-living environment interconnected in the world around us?
  2. What is the value of TROPICAL FOREST for Cambodia?
  3. How do humans IMPACT tropical ecosystems in Cambodia?
  4. How can we use our knowledge about ECOLOGY to help improve Cambodia?

Trips:

Kong Kong ( 1 week)

Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center  (1 day)

Description:

In Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology we studied about the Ecosystems in Cambodia and all around the world. We also learned about the many Ecological Relationships in  ecosystems.

 

In this exploration we want to change Cambodia by giving Cambodian people the knowledge about the forest and the animals in Cambodia from our experience. We also want to protect the animals in Cambodia from the hunter also to help save the endangered animals.

 

Our exploration took a trip to Koh Kong to learn more about forest in Koh Kong. When we were there we went into the forest and we slept at the campsite.On our trip we walked in the forest, swam at the waterfall and slept in the forest. We also went to Mangrove forest and then we came back to Liger. We also took a trip to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center to learn about the siamese crocodile and the moon bear and sun bear. At there we met a lot of people from Free The Bears and Flora Fauna International and they taught us about the animals in the zoo.

In the classroom we learned a lot of things and we worked on projects in small groups.   Our projects were about Ecological Relationships, different biomes around the world, Food Web in Koh Kong, Makey Makey Project, and Science Museum Blog. Our highlights are to understand how important the plants and animal are. Also to know about different organizations that help the animals and to understand clearly about their goal and how can they help Cambodia.

Human History Description

Name of Course: Human History

 

Learning Facilitator: Max

 

Number of Students: 7

 

Days we Meet: Monday/Tuesday

Advanced Enrichment Dates: October 20-January 16

Course Description: In our Advanced Enrichment we were learning about Human History. Human History means how people began to come to live in the Earth and how many years that people have been living in the Earth. We learned how our ancestors had different from us and how they lived in the Earth. Our ancestors were chimpanzees. Chimpanzees were so different from us because because they walked by four legs and humans were bipedales. Other thing that is different was that the chimpanzees were living on the trees and humans lived in the house on the land. We looked on timelines from zero years until now. We compared from zero years until now how it different. At zero years it was just land with mountains and we learned about what was the first species of human that lived on the Earth. Now it have lots of animals that live on the Earth and now it have technology which before didn’t have. On the timeline we could know what were the first organisms that lived in the Earth. The first organisms that lived in the Earth were bacterias. We learned what was happening before Christ and what was happening after Christ. We had four important keywords. They were evolution, adaptation, reproduce and generation. Each word helped us to study about our Advanced Enrichment. Evolution means how people changed over time. Example: humans have changed their living because at the past humans didn’t know how to grow plants, but over time humans adapted to grow the plants because they didn’t have the food to eat. In our class we talked a lot about generation and how humans changed over generations. We asked our friends how old were they, then we asked about the mother’s age and then we took their mother’s age minus their age. So we could know when was their mother’s age when have baby. This is helpful to know because it helps us to learn about generation. If now I am 12 years old and my mother is 39 years old it means my mother had me when she was 27 years old.

 

Psychology Description

Name of Course: Psychology

Learning Facilitator: Caroline

Number of Students: 13

Days we Meet: Monday/Tuesday

Advanced Enrichment Dates: Session 1: August 12-October 17

 

Course Description: In our Advanced Enrichment we learned about psychology. Psychology means how someone felt and how they changed their behavior and attitude. We learned about body language. Body language means how someone acted could tell other people by not speaking anything. We looked at the students and thought that students were introvert or extrovert people. Introvert means animals that don’t want to be loud they are just serene. Extrovert means animals that like to do fun things and be loud animals. Other things we learned were about optimism and pessimism. Optimism means thinking a good thing. Pessimism means thinking bad things like some people give up. We learned about positive and negative behavior. Example: when the mom played with the baby she was positive and the baby was happy, but when the mom was negative (it means the mom made the straight face) and then the baby was crying and trying to make the mom play with them. We learned about children’s behavior. When we gave chocolate to children and then we said if you eat chocolate it okay, but if children wait the teacher will give more chocolate. Some of the students ate the chocolate because they thought that the teacher was cheating them. Some of them waited because they wanted more chocolate to eat. We watched three videos. First video we watched was about two monkeys working together to open the box to get the foods to eat.​ Second video we watched was about human have two monkeys and they gave one monkey a grape and other monkey a cookie and how they behaved. Third video we watched was about two people played cards to cheat the monkey and how it behaved.