Category: Explorations

Explorations are project-based experiences during which students work together in groups to explore a relevant, often complex question, problem or challenge. This project-based learning is almost always enhanced with intensive activities that involve student immersion in real-world experiences outside of the classroom.

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The Cambodian Economy

In our Exploration, we were working on one project is about creating the Cambodian Economy book. The books will distribute to every secondary school in Cambodia so that the students can learn about their country’s economy. There are nine students who worked in this Exploration and they’re focusing on different sectors of Cambodian economy. For me I worked on two sectors are Kampot pepper and Tourism sector. Kampot pepper is known as the best pepper in the world. People trust it because it got the GI (Geographical Indication) status. Tourism sector is one of the four largest sectors of the Cambodian economy. It provides many jobs to people that live around the area and it helps people learn different things including culture, language etc.

At the Ministry of Education
At the Ministry of Education

My group had seven weeks to finish writing the book. We had been to many different provinces and places to learn about the jobs that people do to help the economy to grow. I had been to Kampot province to learn about Kampot pepper and fisheries. I went to visit Sothy’s pepper farm to learn about the pepper. She said that there are many tourist who come to visit her farm to learn about Kampot pepper. So we could say that Kampot pepper farm is also one of the small tourism site in Cambodia. I also went to Crap Market to interview the people who catch and sell crabs.

All the authors photo after give speech
All the authors photo after give speech

In class we all are focusing on researching on the internet to collect data and write down that information in the book. We need to make sure that the information that we got is right so we have to check many times. When we finished writing in English we have to checked it with our foreigner teachers to make sure that the grammar is correct and it is in the right way. After finished with English section we have to translate it into Khmer. Then we checked it with the Khmer teachers. So that mean we have to write and edit many times to make it look good enough.

To design the book, we worked with Javier Solorio who is the Director of Graphic Design for a non-profit organization at Chicago. Every Wednesday we skype with him to discuss and give feedback about the book layout. We’ll really appreciate him because he designed our book for free and it looks so professional.

  • Read the Cambodian Economy book

After we finished writing the book and it prints out, we were going to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to meet his excellency Hang Chuon Naron. He is the one who want our school to change Cambodia through education. We were so happy to meet him to give the first printed book to him. He will help us to put the book in every Secondary government school in Cambodia.

Giving speech at Meta House
Giving speech at Meta House

Just the day after we meet with the Minister of Education, we were doing our book launch at Meta House. We invite many people to join including all the Liger students as well. We all giving our speech to the audience about our book. I felt so happy that I’m just a 12 years old girl that had written the book about the economy to help my country even though it’s not easy but I still can do it.

Cambodian Economy book in the news

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/business-minded-tweens-publish-book

 

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Master VIP Plan

Master VIP Plan group members
Master VIP Plan group members

In this Exploration, we were designing the welcome center for our school (Liger) called the Visitor Information Palace (VIP). We had turned a shipping container into a welcome center for our school. There are many works that we had to complete in seven weeks such as designing the exit trail and the deck, create the 3D model, make a slideshow and video, install the solar electrical, paint the mural, and design and translate our Liger Learning model (school learning curriculum). Our group has 13 students, so we all have a different job to do. My job was a General Manager that responsible for making sure everything gets done in time and everything go with the plan.

In seven weeks on that project, we would not finish if the operation team does not help us. Before designing anything for the welcome center we have to get permission from Dom (school director) so that he agree and we can do it or his team (operation team) can do it for us. Some jobs that we can’t do it by our self-are installing the solar, create the deck and the exit trail and paint the outside of the welcome center. The goal of this Visitor Information Palace is to give the visitor an idea of what our school campus looks like by our 3D model. Also, to tell them some information about what we have been doing at our school through our slideshow pictures, video, and more. My group works really hard to complete this project and we always being flexible with the 3D printing to print out the school model. One of the hardest thing in this exploration was to get everyone focus on their task. In class, we also created a website about our exploration to share to people around the world. This is a link

http://master3dplan.ligercambodiablog.org/

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Entrepreneurship

  • Our flyer

In my Entrepreneurship exploration, we were learning about running our own business by selling the 3D product. We divided into four group and each group have three members. My group were Samnang, Visal, and me. First of all, we pick of team name which is Sa-art Action then we divide the work to do. My role was an accountant and marketing, Visal was a graphic designer of the website, and Samnang was a product designer. Our group had created a Phone Carrier, which is a type of product that used to hold the phone and on your head just like headlamp and you can capture video easily. First we find the problem that people really hard to take a video when riding bike or moto. We designed our product in 123 3D design then we print it by 3D printing. Before we created our products, we had to do many surveys like interviewing people at the market and asking people at our school through Google Form. Then we come up with a plan about where we should sell and promote our product and also how much would it cost. In our class we had learned some vocab (memrise)about creating a business. In this Exploration had taught me a lot about collaboration and being flexible. One of my challenging thing is about promote people to buy our product. Some places that we had gone to sell our product are Central Market in Phnom Penh and Northbridge International School Cambodia (NISC). In this Exploration, I really enjoyed working with my team about sharing idea and work hard to achieve our goal.

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Liger TV Station Description

  • Exploration 6

Name of Course: Liger TV Station

Learning Facilitator:  Sophorn

Number of Students: 12

Dates: May 15-June 17

Course Description: In our Exploration class we have learned about plastics and also we learned how to become TV reporters. We also had a lot of trips because we wanted to know more information about plastics. For example we went to BKKM (Boeung Keng Kong Market), City mall, Cintri and the Ministry of Environment. The reasons why we went on the trips were because we wanted to know how the people use the plastics each day. We wanted to compare which market uses a lot of plastics. When we went on the trip we also interviewed the sellers and the buyers about the plastics. The questions that we asked them were important for us and they also told us a lot of information that they knew. When we went to the Cintri we can know how they work. Cintri has one important idea like how to help the environment. They told us that if we wanted the people to follow us like they use less plastics it needs to start from you. Then when they see us do that they will do too. In class we also learned about plastics and we made the TV channel about plastic so other people can know how bad the plastics are and the problems to the environment and animals, when there are plastics a lot. So our group did the presentation to the people in the community that is near our school. Some people they nearly cry because they know about it and never hear the children can know a lot of information about plastics. When we were in class we divided it in the groups, some people wrote the reflection when we came back from the trip and put it in the blog and some people edited the video. Some time when we went to trip like go to BKKM we went with other groups that learn about plastics, so can share our ideas and some people they can get new ideas.

My Project blog: http://ligertvstation.ligercambodiablog.org/

 

 

 

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Eco Tourism Description

  • Exploration 7

Exploration name: Ecotourism

Exploration dates: August 13-October 3, 2014

Number of students: 13

Essential questions:

(1) What is Eco tourism?

(2) How can Eco tourism help change our country?

Eco tourism means to travel to natural areas that protect environment and help people life at location became better. Eco tourism was also about helping to preserve the environment. Our ecotourism group went to Chi Phat to study about the ecotourism in Chi Phat. Also we learned about how ecotourism in Chi Phat are different from other ecotourism sites. Our big goal when we went to Chi Phat was to interview as many people as possible. We interviewed different people to get different answers and all the people had different perspectives. After we interviewed a lot of people we came back and studied about the information we found some areas of concern. Our group made a recommendation to Chi Phat community about the areas of concern. Some areas of concern are education, transportation, marketing, collaboration, and energy. After we finished we will send it to Martin and Prom Hong, the CBET (Community Based Ecotourism Site) directors.

My Project Blog: http://ecotourism.ligercambodiablog.org/