In this exploration we are learning mostly about anemia. We found out that 25% of the world population and 43% of Cambodian women and 53% of Cambodian children are anemia. Anemia are caused by genetic, parasites and iron deficiency. Genetic is when you parents pass the DNA to you. Parasites is when the hookworm eat you red blood cells. Last but not least is iron deficiency is when you don’t have enough in your body. To solve the anemia problem is to eat healthy food and food that contain a lot of iron in it. The food that contain a lot of iron are beef, pork and green leafy vegetables. From age 19-50 years old they should contain 18 ml gram of iron per day and the pregnant women they should contain 27 ml of iron per day. Pregnant women should contain more iron than the others because when they give a birth to their kids they lost a lot of blood and the iron are in the blood. So it also mean that they also lost a lot of iron. We collaborated with Lucky Iron Fish Organization. This organization is making the fish that contain iron. They helps to distribute the iron fish to the villagers that can’t support the healthy food for their family. We also went to Siem Reap to do the presentation to the villagers about how important is iron in our body. We not only went to the village, we also went to one NGO called Future of Khmer Children. We help the Lucky Iron Fish to distribute the fish to all of the villagers that came and listen to our presentation.
NEW APARTMENT
After the summer break, we come back to school for the fifth year. Do you know that this year is really different from the other years? I got to live in the apartment with my best friends. There’s are 4 houses, in each houses, there are 2 apartments and in each apartment, there are 2 rooms and each room can fit 4 people. New apartment new life we all have to cook. I really love my bedroom, big bed, comfortable blanket and soft pillows. In the guest room, there’s a gigantic television, sofa, tall refrigerator oven, and a long table for meals. I admitted that when I live without residential education (RE) I feel like I have more freedom and independence on my own.
SPIRITUAL EXPLORATION
LIGER PRIDE YEARBOOK EXPLORATION
Our goals are to make a Liger Yearbook and share it with people all around the world. To achieve these goals we need to work with the book printing companies and collaborate with each other to write the story of year four at Liger. We will include a lot of pictures and multimedia created by Liger students and staff. Most of all we will make Liger a model for educating people locally and globally.
ANGKOR WAT INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY
There are more than 700 temples in Cambodia, but the most visited temple is called Angkor Wat. In the past, the elders said “Angkor Wat is the paradise on Earth.” Angkor Wat is located in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Angkor means city and Wat means ព្រះវិហារ (Preah Vihear). There were five thousand workers who used rocks to build the structures. They had to take 300 to 400 rocks a day. Angkor Wat is the biggest temple in Cambodia. It took 35 years to complete. The highest point in the Angkor Wat is 65m (middle part), the length is 250 m and width is 12 m. Angkor Wat faces test. One interesting thing about Angkor Wat is that it is built on water.. The space between the water and Angkor Wat is 5 km, the length is 1250 m and the width is 200 m. Most of the rocks are having holds and it can’t carv to make the pictures on the wall. There are 1,532 pillars at Angkor Wat.
One day you should visit Angkor wat, learn about it and see how magnificent an achievement Angkor Wat is.
PROJECT BASED LEARN
Students will work out to find the meaning of PBL and activities in local international schools/NGOs and western schools/ NGOs whether there will be A- standard PBL or how PBL are different around the world . Students will get to know government high school look, and they will make simple and easy pilot projects and do demonstration for government students to get to know that . And whether those projects would be suitable to their situation or not. At the end student would be able to do follow up with government students out come with fun event they would have planned.
NETWORKING
I was learning about networking. First I learned how to cables work (electronic strings). I learn about 2h with my mentor. I know how to change the PC name and change the PC password (need admin password).
HOUR OF CODE
I learned coding for one hour from 6:45pm to 7:45pm. I learned from code.org. It is a website for free and it’s make a lot of fun and help me learn how to code. First it teach the basic lesson and it get harder and harder until it tell you to make your own game!
Click on this link to play my game! (hard to win)
PROJECT BASED LEARNING EXPLORATION
On 12th January 2016, my project based learning group (PBL) presented some of the examples that students in government school can do and help to change the community. All of the examples are
Discussion of Problem and Solution
Things that I like the most were culture fading. At the past, during Khmer new year they are playing water and baby powder. The purpose of playing that is to get the happiness. Now during Khmer new year they still playing that, but they play in a bad way like trying to touch other places of the body (cheek, chest, etc). Also now our traditional games don’t have a lot of people playing it. It kinda fading with the elders.
Rube Goldberg
They wanted the government students know how to engineer a new thing and know how to recycle the rubbish that not needed. Rube Goldberg is the one thing that can control other things. Students also can learn about physic and be solving problem.
Science book
Most of the book in Khmer is not about science, so they wanted the kids in high school wright the book about science.
Step how to write the book
pick the topic about science
research the information (asking experts, book, etc)
plant your story
draft your story (does it make sense?)
final draft (give it to the teacher to check)
draw some pictures that make sense with the story
That it!! but it not really easy to do.
History Museum
That is Panharith and I presenting about. We wanted to have a small table in the library that will put the old stuff like, an old map of Cambodia, rock 1000 years old, an old picture of Cambodian famous people, etc. Our purpose is to get the new generation to know some of the histories. If any problem happened students must report to the teacher or the principal.
Community Problems/Solution
This is the last one they found some of the community problems and they try to find the solution to solve it. One of the problems that is my favorite is climate change. Climate change because of the pollution. If the pollution makes the flood, the flood will make the water go into the rice field with the rubbish. It a little bit hard to explain, have a look at the picture.
Group picture before they leave
3D DESIGN
3D design is really interesting for us because it really good for our brain thinking, being ingenuity which is one of our core value. In 3D design we have make vase, chair, cup etc in Blender. Blender is a program that make a 3D things and we all need to be really creative. Last year we have one teacher name Kichong he have a lot of experience about 3D design. He have one small company called ARC Hub which really good. He make a really useful product from 3D design one of the cool thing is the arm for human body, when people broke their arms they can use it. Also when he came and teach us, Kichong want us being creative to make a product to sell from 3D design. In our school find out that 3D design is a good program for us to learn so we have a 3D design Expertise.
I designed in Blender!