By recording students daily activities, students calculated the amount of water that they used daily and discussed the possible methods of saving water by reducing the activity that had the higher water usage.
利用紀錄學生每日活動及飲食生活習慣，計算每日使用之水資源。找出每日耗水量最大的活動，並想出五種可能節省水資源的方法。

2015.01.16 Methods of Saving Water

After group discussions, students presented their ways of minimizing the daily water usage in attempt to reduce the water footprint.
在小組討論後，學生上台分享各組節省水資源的利用之五種方法。

Workers remove a logo left by pro-democracy protesters in the shape of an umbrella during a clearance at the last “Occupy” protest site blocking a main road at Causeway Bay shopping district in Hong Kong
The mass protest has become known as the Umbrella movement

The Interview is now widely on show in cinemas and is available online

Gasoline sold for under $2 a gallon at a Shell station in Cleveland last week. CreditTony Dejak/Associated Press

First Group
第一組

Second Group
第二組

Third Group
第三組

Fourth Group
第四組

By Researching and reading posts from students in the selected international city, New York City, students had made a comparison between the water in NYC and Taipei.
利用蒐集資料和參考學生選出的城市- 紐約的國際學生提供之信息，比較紐約與台北兩個城市自然水系統的相異處。

2014.12.19 NYC Students Respond 

Finished and uploaded the comparison between the NYC and Taipei. Watch NYC students’ definition of “Global Scholar”.
完成並上傳上堂課比較紐約和台北的相異處。 並且欣賞由紐約中學生拍攝對於”國際學者”之定義。

2014.12.26-2014.12.27 “Water Access” Planning

Working as a group, student discussed and designed their own plan of constructing a water treatment plan. The group that finished their plan fastest is the winner. The students then discussed the difference between the planning of the real water treatment plan with the one they designed.
小組討論並設計如何在最短的遊戲回合中完成建構汙水處理廠的興建。並在遊戲結束後，討論遊戲與真實生活中汙水處理廠興建計畫的相異處。

This is the ticket of “The Lion King”:

Reading Comprehension

1. What can you do with the ticket?
(A) Go to the zoo      (B) Go to an amusement park
(C) Go to a museum    (D) Go to a show

2. The theatre asks people to arrive thirty minutes earlier before “The Lion King”
begins.  What time should you arrive?
(A) 12: 30 at noon       (B) 1:00 in the afternoon
(C) 12:30 at midnight    (D) 1:30 in the afternoon

3. At the back of the ticket, it says:

How much should Jimmy’s family pay for the tickets?  <scan>
(A) $ 300    (B) $ 340    (C) $350    (D) $430

4. If you can’t make it on the date, what can you do with the ticket?  <infer>
(A) You can get money back in the convenience store.
(B) You can change the date of the ticket at the information center.
(C) You can watch the next “The Lion King”.
(D) You can do nothing.

WHEN Santino Deng was ten years old, men in his village pulled six of his teeth out – the six bottom front teeth. Why?

In Santino’s village in Sudan, in Africa, it is the custom. People there say, “Men with no front teeth look handsome. Women with no front teeth look beautiful.”

So, when the children in Santino’s village are ten years old, men pull their teeth out. The children do not cry. The boys want to look handsome. The girls want to look beautiful.

Now Santino has a problem. He is living in the United States. People in the United States think, “Men with no front teeth are not handsome. Women with no front teeth are not beautiful.”

There is another problem. In Santino’s village, all the food is soft. It is easy to eat with no front teeth. In the United States, not all the food is soft. It is not easy to eat apples and hamburgers with no front teeth.

A dentist is putting new teeth in Santino’s mouth. It is expensive, and it is painful. But Santino wants the new teeth. “In Sudan, I was handsome,” he says. “Here, I am not. I want to be handsome again.”

Adopted from All New Easy TRUE STORIES by Sandra Heyer

Reading Comprehension

1. What is the reading “Handsome Again” mainly about?
A. Santino wants to look handsome.
B. Don’t judge a person by how they look.
C. Different cultures have different ideas about beauty.
D. Being natural is beautiful.
 
2. Why did the men in Santino’s village pull their teeth out?
A. It is the custom in the village .
B. It is a way to bring them good luck.
C. Their teeth are terribly bad.
D. Their teeth are old and broken.
 
3. How do Americans think about people without teeth?
A. In Americans’ idea, people without teeth are handsome.
B. In Americans’ idea, people without teeth are beautiful.
C. In Americans’ idea, people without teeth are not handsome.
D. In Americans’ idea, people without teeth are not rich.
 
4. Why did Santino want new teeth?
A. He wants to eat delicious food in America.
B. He wants to look handsome again in America.
C. He cares nothing about his appearance in America.
D. He does not care about pain of pulling teeth out or putting them in.
 
5. Who helps Santino put new teeth in his mouth?
A. A new friend in America.
B. A dentist in America.
C. An old friend in his village in Sudan.
D. Men and women from his village in Sudan.
 
6. Check food for men without front teeth in Sudan’s village.
1. ____ tofu  2. ___ yogurt   3. ____ apple juice  4. ___ milk
5. ____ nuts  6. ___ apples   7. ____ hamburgers  8. ____ ice cream