Hands-on Activities:
Exploration and Implementation

Educators at Sheng Kung Girls’ High School employ different types of curriculum that best incorporates the below six effective components of teaching. These components are applicable to both senior and junior high school level:

1. To demonstrate knowledge of content

2. To demonstrate the knowledge of students

3. Select suitable instructional strategy goals

4. To demonstrate knowledge of learning

5. To design coherent instruction

6. To solve problems in a real life situation

Exploration and Implementation

1. Geographic Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This course focuses on local issues and challenges how epidemics affect tourism. In this class, the teacher guides students by observing phenomena and exploring problems. To solve the problems, students must find the data and organize the data. Finally, students will make their own plan how to solve the problem according to the organized data. After class, students could be developed to read, think, unify and cooperate. We hope students can tackle life’s challenges.

Group discussion

Organizing data

Group presentation

Learning and discovering around

Field Trip

2. Natural Science
This curriculum is focusing on guiding students how to use inquiry-based practice skills in the learning process of science. These skills include problem-finding, planning and research, argument and modeling, and expression.

The class curriculum is divided into 4 subjects:

1. Inquiry of sea-level changes in Taiwan.

2. Inquiry of the effects of different materials as thermal insulators.

3. How to be a successful Sheng Kung farmer?

4. Water quality analysis, water purification and water pollution prevention.

In each of these areas, students will start with observation of phenomenon and developing their high-thinking, collaboration and communication skills throughout the inquiry process.

Peer discussion, planning and research

Problem finding

Planting, collaboration and cooperation

Peer observation, critical thinking

Good care of their plants, good water system

Insufficient water, not enough water to survive, growth will be slower than normal or expected.

3. Geoscience - Partial Solar Eclipse
Approximately 150 students and faculty attended a partial solar eclipse viewing party on December 26th, hosted by the geoscience department. In this lesson, students explore and learning through observation, they will have three-dimensional learning and they will learn about the mechanics of eclipses.

Live Learning through observation

Total solar eclipse Look up and learn

It is nice learning experience for SK girls

More observation through paper

Design a variety of models, through the three-dimensional, students will learn the concept of solar eclipse

Students can find problems and use the objective analysis of the data to explore and solve problems

International Education

1. Embrace the World from Local to Global
The goals of this class go beyond merely helping our students to improve English. Through this course, we are giving students many different types of projects and situations that we call it (PBL) where they can use English in daily life. In addition, we hope to give them different opportunities to acquire and improve other skills that they will need once they graduate from high school.

Here are some of the skills that they can acquire and improve:

English Skills:
Good enunciation, volume control, adding emotion to your speaking, using the proper tone, speaking confidently, projecting your voice

Other Skills:
Creativity, persuading others, demonstrating how to do something, presentation ability, discussing important issues with others

In the following there are six chapters with different themes that SK girls can actively learn and practice in class

Aboriginal - Monologue

Each of them are one of the representative of tribes in Taiwan. Through their monologue speech, "Listen to indigenous voices and crisis, it is time to change."

2. New Immigrants - Interview

It can be hard to imagine how we might tell “our stories.” Where do they start? Where do they end? What do we deem necessary for other people to know about us?

3. Taiwanese Culture -
PPT Presentation

Taiwanese, language, culture, custom, and etiquette, what are the some traditions in Taiwan? what makes Taiwan so unique? does native Taiwanese children know all about this?

4. Asia - Brochure

The goal of this lesson is planning imaginary tourism to Western Asia for 5 days. Students are going to create a travel brochure to Western Asia countries and locations.

5. International Culture - Referendum

Students need to imagine that they are working in a professional campaign. Their most recent case to win an election for their group. They can make props for their campaign.

6. MV - Taiwan

The goal of this lesson is to share ideas and concepts that engage love through music. They are creating a music video (MV) introducing “Taiwan” to the world. The main purpose of the lesson is to promote Sheng Kung, Tainan-Taiwan.

2. Journey to the world in English
Through this class, students will equip with the basic knowledge of carrying out a self-guided tour in a foreign country. The teacher will focus on three aspects, including the basic vocabulary and sentence patterns, mock scenarios, and culture exploring.

The main goal of this class, students are encouraged to practice with peers by following the given materials. After that, they will be assigned a scenario to do the role-play. Through the mock scenario situation, students can learn to use what they have learned. While practicing these language skills, a lecture on self-guided tour is introduced. Additionally, they are required to look for some cultural information about the country that they are planning to travel.

Materials:
Traveling passports are issued in the first class to create the authenticity.

Guest Speaker:

A self-guided tour experience sharing by Mr. Yun Liao, who shared his unusual self-guided tour to some southern Asia or biking around Europe

Group discussion:
Preparing for travel brochure

World Café:
Go around to take a look at other people’s self-guided brochures and pick out the most wanted.

Experience Sharing:
Sharing what has been done in this brochure and why with others.

Mock Scenario Practice:
After learning the basic language skills, students are put into different groups to carry out the scenario.

3. Postcrossing
Postcrossing is, it is a platform for you, students, teachers or anyone is able to send postcards and receive postcards.

What is so special about Postcrossing? you send a postcard to a stranger of any age and have a stranger send a postcard back to you. It goes like this: for every postcard you send, you’ll receive one back from another random member and the more you send, the more you will receive. The beauty is that you can learn about unknown places, countries or cities, you can learn different cultures or even practice foreign languages. Postcrossing turns students' mailboxes into a box full of postcards surprises! In this digital era, it is priceless to get a real postcard, not electronic email!