Er-Jen River quality inspection – Wa Cuo Elementary School educate future generations on environmental awareness

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Er-Jen River quality inspection – Wa Cuo Elementary School educate future generations on environmental awareness

   Starting in June 2011, a group of students and teachers from Tainan’s
Hong Wa Cuo Elementary School began documenting the neighboring Er-Jen River.
They traveled to conduct field research, and to experience for themselves
the extent of the pollution problem in the river. To give the children a better
understanding of the river the teacher also taught the history of the river
as part of the class syllabus.

  The children boarded makeshift rafts to get a closer look at the scale of
the contamination, and in their kid’s talk made some very interesting observations.
One child commented how it appeared that the water’s color had been mixed in a
painting, another child commenting that it stank, another exclaiming that he was
afraid to get too close. Through this practical experience, the children have been
made aware of the real situation of rivers in the neighboring area, which will help
foster the root of environment consciousness in their young minds.

以下為中英文對照

  一群來自台南紅瓦厝國小的師生們，從民國百年六月開始就在紀錄鄰近家鄉的二仁溪。
實地走訪做田野調查，親身體驗二仁溪的污染程度，老師替小朋友們上課，讓他們更了解
二仁溪的歷史故事。

  小朋友親自搭著膠筏…，感受河川遭受汙染的嚴重狀況，小朋友童言童語的說河水好像調過色
的黑色水彩水，也有小朋友說河水好臭、不敢靠近。透過實際體驗，小朋友更加了解家鄉河川的
真實樣貌，也讓環境教育向下紮根。