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September 22, 2015

CamCuculture Shock Description

My round eight Exploration was Culture Shock in Cambodia. Visit our blog!

We all were very interested about it and it talked about the culture in Cambodia. The first day we learned about the meaning of culture shock.
What is culture?
Culture means how people live to show their society or to show what their society looks like.
It shows about people’s life, traditions, religion, clothing, food, festivals, ceremonies, etc.

What is shock?
Shock means feeling surprised, nervous, sad, and it talks about feeling homesick, lazy, etc.

Line graph

Why I show this picture is because it talks about the culture shock. In this picture, it shows when you go to somewhere you’ll be happy and want to live there (it is called Honeymoon) but two or three days later you will feel culture shock because you cannot fit the place that is new for you. You will think it is very hard to live there. (It is called Culture Shock). But when you start to learn more and more about the place that you live in, you feel better than before (it is called Adjustment). Then maybe one month or one year later you will feel normal and you can fit into that place (it is called Mastery).

On the next day we made a poster about when we came to Liger, did we feel culture shock?
This is my poster that I made with my friend Rithy and my other friends’ posters too.

We all were happy and worked hard with our poster. On the third day we began our learning project:
We chose the lesson that we would like to learn about in our Exploration. This is the 5 top topics that we chose:
Way of life – Social studies
Temple and Culture relationships
Greetings – Respect
Khmer beliefs
Khmer ceremonies

We also chose other 5 topics that we would learn about if we had time.
Important Khmer language
Behavior in pagodas
Khmer food
Khmer Traditional Clothes
Khmer Traditional Medicine
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We also programmed our BIG trip to Siem Reap.
We left on Monday, 20-25.
On the first day we walked around temples.
We went to Cambodia Cultural Village.
Had fun, visited organizations.
We also interviewed people on Thursday and debated about some topics and discussed about our small trip to the pagoda.
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Way Of Life
80% of people in Cambodia live in a rural area. They like to do farming there. Most houses are built on stilts to protect from the flood. Most people live in a group and build the house near the pagoda in a rural area.
Poor people living in the city is worse than people in a countryside (rural area) because of conflict and violent crime. The middle-class in Cambodia is not not rich and not poor. Rich and middle-class people in Cambodia show their value by material and their social standing. Hundred of villas are built for political and business elite. Most people in rural areas wear simple clothes and material like sarongs, kromas, palm hats, mats to sit on, flip flops… . Women dress modestly in cotton shirts and ankle-length skirts or dresses woven out of silk for religious festivals.

We also learned about the social class. What is social class? They have classes such as lower class, middle class, and high class.They have different levels of jobs and it talked about levels of life and how people are living in their society. Middle class is the class that is connected to the low class and high class and the level of people. (This paragraph about social class in Cambodia is all our ideas. Then our teacher told us what is social class. Social class is the term to show the social position of people which is differentiated by assets, occupation, income, and power.

This is the picture of the social class that I made. (Click to see clearer)

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In class we also had a debate too. Why we wanted to debate is because we can share our ideas to friends because we have different ideas, and (connecting) one idea to other ideas means we all know more.
Our topic was: should Cambodia have a social class or not? My group was pro. I hated pro, I just wanted to be con, but teacher already said my group is pro, so then I listened to him. Teacher let us have some days to prepare for the debate. Then we all were prepared and our debate began. We were debating and asking questions. It shared the knowledge a lot to everyone in my class, even when we have a debate between one group and another group. At the end of the debate we also had conclusions too and teacher told us which group won for this debate tomorrow. Tomorrow came, my group (pro) won, The points between the both groups is kind of the same, my group just had one point more than the con group. Here is the information that I got with my pro group:

Why is it important or good for Cambodia ( to have three classes of people)?
– It can show people poor so the organization will know/ they will help them.
– People will have a competition
– Economic will work
– People can know and respect to the people who more good than
– Education will decrease if there are a lot of poor people
– Poor and rich people help each other
– Communicate

This is my conclusion at the end of the debate:

Based on the citation on this topic, it is a very important thing to have social classed in Cambodia. We agree about this topic because it can help Cambodia to change and to develop about agriculture, economics, education, competition, communication, and greets.

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In class we also interviewed the staffs about cultures. We divided into four groups, each group had different jobs. After we were already did the interview we shared what we got.

Family
Usually dad is the head of the family
Dad usually go to work
Usually the man and woman married at: under 20 years old or up.
In rural area usually have seven-ten members in the family
The average members is five in a family
In the city usually both man and woman work.

Food
Most food are fried fish, vegetable, soup, Brohok( Khmer Traditional food), sour soup,… .
Khmer food is so good
Most people in Phnom Penh go to buy the food at: BKK, Pong Tobek, Supermarket, Kelo lek 4 market,
The material that they use to eat rice or food is spoon, fork, hand and chopstick.

Clothes
Traditional clothes like:
silk skirt, Sarong, Sieng, Cheng pants, Pamong,…
When they wear that clothes it comfortable, and they also wear it when there a ceremony.
People in the city is stylish than the people live in rural area. In rural area they wear simple clothes like, pants, shirts, jeans…. .

Entertainment
Game that Cambodian like to play when there are a ceremony is:
Pull string, dance, kneecap, fight pot, and all this traditional game it happened long time ago.
Cambodian like to play this game with family, friends,.. . When ceremony, sometime they played at pagoda, home.
Let go back to the social class topic!
We have been searching about what jobs that high class, middle class, and low class do.

High class
High rank political members/government. Big business, doctor, head of religious, members, prime minister, president, king… .
Middle class
Teacher, seller, clerk, singer, architect, shopkeeper, policeman, officer..
Low class
Factory worker, farmer, beggar. rubbish picker, fisher man, moto driver.

In class we had prepared for our trip. We divided the group. Questionia group, accountant( budget) Material, and documentary. For me I in questionia group. My group make a questions to interview the people at Siem Reap. Budget group they make do about the money how much should we spent in our trip. For the material group they prepared the material, what should we take it with us and also they make a schedule too,what place that we go on this or that day.

The day to Siem Reap

Our trip had come we all was very happy and want to go. We all was pack for our trip and ready for it. We leave Liger at 8:00am. From Liger to Siem Reap was very long. We need to pass four provinces called Kampong Chhnang, Posat, Battambang, and Banteay Meanchey. It take us to go there for 10 hour. It so long and it can make us bored. But in the bus we was singing and watch TV. We ate our dinner at Kompong Chhnang. At the evening we arrive Siem Reap and sleep at the guest house called Mong Papa. We ate dinner near there and it was yummy. Here is some pictures that we took when we were traveled.

_DSC9517 — Steung Sogke Bridge(Battambang)

Cambodian Cultural Village

I was taking a picture with the actor/dancer there.

We went there to interview about their feeling of this place and it was so fun because we not only interview the people but we also went to watch some performance at there. They performed Khmer Traditional Dance, Chinese’ Dance, Kreung’s Dance, etc…. . We also went for a walk around this place. It was so beautiful.

_DSC0082 — We were taking pictures with the monks after we finished interviewed them.

_DSC9759 (640x425) — My friends and I take a picture at the cultural village.

Trip to the Temples

We went there to learn about Angkor Wat and other temples like Bayon. When we at Angkor Wat, we did a survey about the tourists that come to visit Angkor Wat. It was difficult sometimes because we really hard to understand what do they mean. We also visit Ta Phrom Temple. I saw a tree grows on the top of the temple, how amazing is that? We

had a guide to teach to us about the pictures on the wall and it was amazing because we know about the relation of Khmer people with other country like Cham, Chinese, etc… . Along the road that we walked to the temple, I also see some people selling food and some people play the traditional music. Walking along time like this make me really hurt my legs but one thing that interesting to me is we met some students that come to learn about the temple too. We also went to visit one Khmer Noodle shop to eat noodle, it was yummy.
At the evening we went to Bakeng Mountain to visit sunset and to do some more interview. One thing that we was laughing a lot when we the interview is when we ask for permission from the tourists, they thought we were selling stuff to them and so they just ignore it and always said no. But Vornsar, one of our classmate try to tell them that we are not the seller, “We are coming here to interview you some questions”. So they understand and said yes. After we did the interview, it was raining. How could it be possible. The rain come- so the sun down-we can not see the sun and so we were on the top of the temple under the drop of rain. It was fun though because everyone can get the cold of the weather. About 40 minutes later, the rain stopped and the sun rises. I and my friends was so happy but the thing is we can’t see the sun because everyone there had blocked the sun, they are too tall.
It was enough, we learned a lot so it was time to come back to Liger.
That is one of the most fun times I had had.

August 12, 2015

Earth Science

Name of Course: Earth Science
Learning Facilitator: Jeffrey Holte
Number of Students: 10
Days we Meet: Monday/Tuesday
Advanced Enrichment Dates: August 11-October 17, 2014
Course Description: On the first day of our Advanced Enrichment we were all so excited to study about Earth Science. Earth Science means to study about the Earth and all of the things that are related to the environment and the Earth. In our Advanced Enrichment we studied about the rocks, water, weather and all of the planets in space. In Earth Science class we not just only studied and got the theory from the teacher, we also made an experiment together in class. For example, the thing that we have been experimenting with is making the sugar crystal experiment, the erosion and some other activity. Our group helps each other and works together as a team, not work alone and always listen to the teacher. At the end of our Advanced Enrichment we all were a little bit sad because we all wanted to study more about all of the things on Earth and all of the things that are really special for the Earth.

Here is some information that I wrote about the rock. It not very good, and some of the was uncompleted but I putted it because I want to show how well I can take notes on science.

This is the rock that I had been doing research on.

Obsidian Rock

-Obsidian is the rock that have colour deep black

-it a nature rock because it glassy appearance

-When it breaked it very sharp.

-70% of the obsidian was made from silica

-Obsidian can only form near active Volcano

-Some time when the Volcano exploded the Obsidian made from that

-The best obsidian is formed underground near a volcanic vent because those rocks will have limited impurities.

-Tiny gas bubbles that trap water are a part of every obsidian rock.

-Although most rocks that form in the Earth’s crust are very old, obsidian is rarely older than 20 million years old which is young for a rock.

-Obsidian goes through a process called devitrification whereby it turns from glass to a rock.

–Obsidian is commonly used during surgical procedures because it is often sharper than traditional surgical tools.( use for when the doctor treatment)

– Obsidian is used as a gemstone in jewelry.

By Samady,
Rose Quartz Stone

– beautiful color
– second most abundant mineral in the Earth continental crust, after feldspar( a lot of Rose Quartz)
– some people call it Love Stone
– Rose Quartz the type of Rough Gemstone
– it made up of SiO4, silicon, oxygen tetrahedral
– most people take it to make a jewelry
– pink stone
– popular crystal
– pendulum, sphere, the shape of Rose Quartz Stone
– use for draw
By Niron

Slate Rock

– come from the Metamorphic Rock
– roof of the house
– the flour in the house
– It have almost every waterfall
– that shape easy to broke because it soft
– they have different color
By Panharith

Anthracite Coal

– hard, shiny,black
– Metamorphic rock
– burn to make a electricity, heat
– 2006, cuns, 6,000,000,000,000 kilogram
– 70% of China’s electricity come from Coal
– 40% of the world’s electricity come from Coal
– Coal mostly found in United State
– 28%, US, Germany 5%, 13% China, 7% Indian, 18% Russia, 9% Australia, 20% rest of the world
By Souyeth

Chalcopyrite

– it is a rock
– yellow color
– heavy and hard
– it really be friends with gold
– fool gold
BY Maya

Specular Hematite

– mineral of the iron
– black, gray, silver
– the gray one mostly found in Yellowstone Pack,
– come from Volcano
– most important for Iron or make steel
– the really heavy one is 5 SG( don’t know what is SG is?)
– it can occur(made) without water,
By Sokea

Oil shale

– people break the Oil shale to get a oil
– Oil shale can burn
– make from Lava
– can make gas
– find near mountain, or big rock
By David

Garnet schist

– gray rock
– metamorphic rock
– use for: Water jet cutting, 35%, Abrasive Blasting, 30%, Water filtration 20%, abrasive – – – — Powder 10%, other is 5%
– have tiny crystal inside
By Srey Leap

Phomist Rock
– lightly
– float because have a hole,
– it not smooth
– use to clean the foot, smooth foot
By Chimean

This is the information about Solar Systems that I take a note from my classmate:

Sun

Is lonely because if something go near it will melt

1,Mercury

use 88 day to move around the sun, very hot

at night very cold and at day very hot, if u go you will die ( -173 degrees, -128 Fahrenheit)
427 degrees

2,Venus

morning star and evening star
244 day of earth =1 day of Venus
very hottest planet
108,200,00 km far from the planet
4 smallest planet
462 degrees
hot enough to melt the lead,

3,Earth

earth wallpapers 39

ocean,land
365 days to rotate around the sun
Blue planet
have moon
4.54 billion year old
78% of nitrogen
21% of oxygen
23.934 hour to rotate, but they estimate 24 hour
diameter 7,926 miles
highest 136 OF, and coldest -128 OF, and average of temperature of earth is 57 OF

4,Mar

Red planet
largest volcano
gravity half of earth
if u jump one height of the earth, in the mar you jump three high

5,Jupiter

biggest planet
10 hours to rotate around the sun
has a lot of gravity
100 pound of Earth, 240 pound of Jupiter

6,Saturn

2nd biggest planet
highest no moon
full of gas
name: Roman god of farming

7,Uranus

very far from the sun
cool planet
name from: Roman god of sky

8,Neptune

far from the sun
can not see with the eye
165 years to rotate around the sun
strongest wind
blue color on the body it mean the methane gas

August 7, 2015

Changing Cambodia Description(11-13 year-old)

● Think about change (what things did I notice need to be changed in my country; what solutions did I think about, even if I couldn’t DO the solution?)
In Cambodia there are a lot of problem because this country is poor. The things that I want to change in Cambodia is to improve more law. Every country have different law and law is really important for people. In Cambodia have law but the people not respect it. Example the traffic lights place. People who drive the motor, car and bike or walk need to stop and see the traffic light whenever they want to cross or pass the road. As I see whenever I went to Phnom Penh, sometimes I saw people just go even though the traffic light told them to not go.
My solution is to help the people there understanding how important is to respect the law. Go to the community and convince them to keep respecting the law. Make them connect with the society such as giving the shirt. When they wear the shirt of law respecting pictures on it, it’s show that person also one of Cambodian respect the law even though that person not but it can remind others around that person to respect the law.

People habit: This is show how people not respect to each other. One of the example is when they were getting crash with each other. The real example that I heard from the RE said, one time there motor and car crash together. But the motor and the people not getting hurt, so the car just drive aways. But then the motor people stop the car and block the way to not let the car go away. The motor people just call the car driver to come out. When the motor people blocked the way to not let the car go, it was effect to the other people that around there driving to do their business or to go somewhere. It make traffic gems. Soon the police come to solve the problem, so everyone can go.

Conflict in family and the people around you. At my village there are a lot of conflict between the people in the family. When they have conflict, it can affect to the people around them. Example at my village, one man got drunk every time and so when he arrived home he always blame his wife, his children. It was so loud and my house can hear what he’s talking. At the night sometimes my family and another family can not sleep because of the man voice. His wife try to tell him not to drink the beer, but still he not listen. Meanwhile, for the conflict between one family to another family is similar to the conflict in the family too. One example was there are one house. That house divided into two different houses and so there are two family lived in. The family at the top always throw the waste down to the down stair house and so the man there tell the man at the top house to not throw any waste in front of his house. But the man in the top house not listen and just walk away. The man on the down stair house just ignore him. Soon the man on the top of the house still continue to throw every thing that they don’t need down to the man live in the down stair house. Sometimes the man on the top of the house flow the bath water into the man lived down stair house. So the man get really angry and he tell the man at the top to go to the police with him. And they still now having a conflict, it is not yet ended.

Environment around Cambodia. Plastic! Plastic! People in Cambodia only say that there are a lot of plastic in Cambodia. I know they were so smart that they know that. But they do nothing. People just keep throw the rubbish away, such as plastic nevertheless they knew that the plastic can be the problem for the environment. There no way that they stop using plastic because they know plastic is really easy for them to pack. I saw a ton of plastic at the Cba Ompove Bridge. Also the Cba Ompove Market too. But no one care.
– Create an mobile app to help them
– Be a model, collecting the rubbish and share the information about plastic problem

Education in Cambodia. At the government school, people just go to learn and teachers just teaching. Teacher was teaching the lesson and students just write fallow the teachers without listening and asking questions. Students at government school not brave enough to ask the questions when they don’t understand. Some of the student taking seriously at the school but some not. There’s not a lot of people in Cambodia are smart, that why Cambodia is poor. People’s education is really important because it can lead the people into the better future.
– Changing the teaching plan at government school
– Encourage teachers to feel happy to teach the students

Is Cambodia communist, or democracy. I do know that Cambodia is democracy but I still wonder why some people in Cambodia don’t get enough independent. One example of the place in Phnom Penh, people there had been evicted by the government to move their house and to go aways from the place. The government was taking that land to build the big building. But what about the other people, where they can go? Who can help them? They didn’t have any place to lived, or they need to find the job to feed their life.
– Take their feeling to put in your heart

Poor get poorer and Rich get richer. The people that rich will hire the other people to do the work for them such as household work, instruction worker and more. People that get hire need to work really hard to find the money. If the instruction worker build one building for their boss, the boss get the building and the boss will give the money but they were all just got a little bit. For the boss can take the building and attract the visitor to get the money.
– Learn when was young and try to have a good job at the future
– Respecting each other, give enough salary to the worker

Where’s all the money go? My wondering was where all the money that from the taxes go? I know it will be for the building road, hospital, school and etc. But in Cambodia have about 1.5 million people, each taxes it should be a lot but it still not enough. Is the money go into the corruption people’s pocket?

The flow of foreign(especially Korean) affect the youth in Cambodia. Cambodia’s youth started to know a lot about Korea such as song. When they had watch the song, they had been saw Korean’s style and so they think that is really handsome or pretty so they just copy.
The hospital- When people got sick they go to the hospital. The doctor in Cambodia’s hospital some are really need the money. They think money is more important that human. If sick people don’t have money the doctor will not cure. Hospital is belongs to the country, to the people who built it. It’s for everyone but for the doctor when they take the money like that it mean they take for their personal.

Smoking effect to the health. Most people in Cambodia smoke a lot nevertheless they knew the cigarette is really dangerous for the health. One family if one person smoke, it is can effect to all the people in the family such as the women who has pregnant.

Death fetal came from drowning. Mostly the children from 1-4 years old in Cambodia was die because of drown. It is the highest fetal in Cambodia but no one know about it because they get less collection data from drowning fetal.
Some children can’t live with their parents. Not all children in Cambodia lived with their parents. Like me, I live with my grandparents because when I was young my parents got divorce. I don’t want the parents to do like that. I want them to stay together and protect the child.
People commit suicide. Some teenager in Cambodia think really short. I mostly saw this news in newspaper. It was terrible. Some people took the dangerous medicine in their body, some jump from the bridge to the water to kill themselves. Some reasons of teenager in Cambodia did was because of family, love and maybe because the people around them.

Some people in Cambodia killing each other. They got conflicted, angry with each other and than……fighting so some got hurt and when to the hospital and the people that fought other will go to jail. Is that a really nice thing?

● Raise awareness about necessary change (did I talk to others and share my ideas about what needs to be changed; possible solutions? did I talk about that with people? with friends? family?)
I had been talked to my grandma to use the plastic again. And sometimes she does and sometimes not. When she come from the market to buy the food, she always keep the plastic to pack other things. For my aunt I saw her used a lot of plastic to pack the food to go to work. But now she’s not use a lot of plastic instead she chose other thing to pack the food.
I, my grandma and the member in my family had told my grandpa to stop smoke. So he do what we told, but for about one month my grandpa started to smoke again. But he not smoke like before. He started to reduce his smoking. I hope my grandpa stop it. Same as drinking the wine. My grandpa like to drink a lot the past five years. And so the member in the family including me told him to stop, so now he’s not drink like before. He was only drink the wine when ceremonies or some parties.
● Try to promote and encourage change (did I do my best to teach others/show others/be an example and model of change? did I try to educate others about change? ex: sharations, trips, networking)
Encourage people to come to join my teaching lesson at Kompong Chhnang.
Invite people to come to the sharation day in Liger.
Selling new product and create a website to convince people to buy my product which is phone/tablet stand.
How to help yourself when you drown?
Create an app that help people to reduce using plastic.
Distribute Cambodia cultures
Determination in Liger- Joining a running race, bike race, swimming across the river. I think this all encourage students in Liger(girls) to be more strong like me. Don’t be scared and got anxious when you do something. Never Give Up.
Networking is to share what would you do when you are the big business men/women. It is really important when you started to learn about it from young, practice and do it.
Try to share people about 3D printing.
Do translation(translate the animals’ books and economies’ books).

● Develop the possibility of change (before change can happen, other things must come first; did you try to “get the ball rolling” or take “baby steps” that come before making a big change?)

When on trip to teach people about first aid.I was went to Kompong Chhnang to teach the people there about first aid. I had learned from the nurse about how to cure people health.
Sharation. I was sharing my ideas and what I was learned in Liger school. I share the experiences, lessons and ideas to other people that come to the sharation in Liger. I shared them about the trip that I went with my classmate.

Invented new product to help others. My group make one product called phone/tablet stand. This product help people to be easy when they used their advice. They can put the phone on the stander and they don’t need to hold it.

Teaching children how to help themselves and others when drowning. This topics I still working on it with my exploration group. We will teach the children(5-14) about basic swim, how would they swim when they are in the water. We also will make the poster to put at the government school for the students there to see. The posters show people to be aware from the water. They should not go near the water without adult, be aware of the animals in the water and etc.
Create a lesson plan
Register for the students
Start to teach
Drawing and making poster for the school at provinces and Phnom Penh(Government school, maybe international school). We will translate it into Khmer and English.

Joining Technovation Challenge 2015
Go on trip to learn more and then create a blog or website to share and also share it when sharation.
such as Culture shock. Create and share it to the people around the world to know about Cambodia, culture and how people live in Cambodia and etc.
Joining the RACE such as football, running, bike and swim. Cheer for others to join with me even though they think they can not do it. Always tell them that you will not know if you not try it.
Networking: Pretending to be one of the business man and share my idea, the business to others business man(students)
Creating a video about 3D printing and share on Youtube to let people see about it. Also share about it at the government school.
Translating in the document about animals and economies.

● Actually create change in Cambodia this year
People know how to cure themselves when they got fever or ankle sprain. I think I change them because first time they don’t know what to do when they got ankle sprain or fever. Some of them was know what to do with fever but it not right. I think it can help people a lot when their children or someone getting hurt they can help and don’t need to bring someone to the hospital if it not so dangerous.

Children knew how to swim and help others when they get drown.
People know how to be safe when there are pond or water near them.
Make people know more about Liger by creating a newspaper.
People get easier when they use their phone or device with my group product.
Others know more about Cambodia cultures
People know more about 3D printing in Cambodia so they can invent new thing with it.

August 7, 2015

Elephants’ Description

Elephants – Samady

Elephants are the kind of animals that help to make environments clean. Elephants are the largest land animals. All elephants are herbivores. They eat grass, bark, twigs, or leaves of trees. Elephants use tusks for eating. Elephants eat 18 hours each day and adults eat 181.4kg of food. They also drink 113.5 to 189.2 litres of water per day. Elephants trunks are used to communicate with each other. If they want to yell or tell something that gives information to each other they just use their trunk. In Africa and Asia there are two main groups. Africa has Savanna elephants and forest elephants.

African elephants are taller than Asian elephants. From elephants’ feet to their shoulder it is about 3.14 metres long. The male elephants weigh up to 5981 kg. Also they have huge ears that cover their shoulder too. If they want to be proud to themselves to show they are strong they open their huge ears to other elephants to look. The African elephant’s back is flat and it almost doesn’t have hair. Lots of them live in deserts because it is easy for find the grass to eat. Most females and males have long tusks they use to carry things. African elephants have a flat crown head and no dent. Asian elephants are different to the African elephants. They are 2.4- 3.04m taller from feet to shoulder. Male elephants weigh up to 4989 kg. They have large ears that are the same as the African elephants. Asian elephants have rounded backs that are different than African elephants.

Physical Feature

Elephants have lots of parts. Their ears can hear faraway sounds. Sometimes they use it to shoo the insects. They use their ears to look bigger when they are facing enemies. Elephants’ tusks are very sharp and they have overgrown teeth. Baby elephants don’t have a tusk. The adult elephants use tusks to carry things like pull the bark on trees, and clear paths for other animals to walk. If other animals don’t have water to drink the elephants help to dig water or roots for animals to eat. The female is the leader of the group. When the enemies come to destroy her family she uses her trunk to fight enemies. They impress each other and to show they are strong. Elephants protect their skin. They roll in the mud or take a dust shower. It can protect from sunburn and insect bites. Sometimes when the water is trapped in their wrinkles it can help them cool down. Their trunk is at their upper lip. It can help to smell, eat the foods or throw things.

Finally their trunk is used to scratch or greet friend or threaten enemies. They use the trunk to shower their head and as snorkels when they are swimming. Elephants’ mouths have back teeth the size of bricks. The elephant’s feet have thick padding but are very soft with heavy treads.

Lifestyle – Behaviour

Elephants live in family groups. The females are all ages and they have young males too. The females stay in the same group for their whole lives. The males are different than the females. Males leave the group between 12 to 17 years old. When they leave the group they live alone in a small hole. The older female is called a Matriarch. She is a leader of the group. Her role is to keep safely together or help find food and water. The leader of the group has to protect the family. She makes the decision when there is a charge or flee danger. Females care for young. The elephants remember the relatives. If they want to show the feelings they turn circles or flap their ears and trumpet loudly. The females are strong relatives. When they celebrate birth they always trumpet. They also kiss or wrap the trunk to show affection. Elephants play games like throwing objects. When their member dies they all bury the dead member with leaves or twigs. If the elephants year after death they go to visit the bones and mourn.

Comparison of Species

There are 15 million elephants in the world. They have small bodies. The elephants are very big. The weight of one elephant is equal to 6 cars and 50 people. When elephants have a baby in a stomach they need to wait 24 months until the baby is born. The babies that are born are 110kg. At history they went to war. Now the people start to destroy them. They cut the trees and take the land to do a farm. The people and the elephants don’t have a good relationship. Some organizations that conservation animals take the elephants to stay away from the people and keep them safely.

Ecosystem

The elephants can help biodiversity or ecosystems. They can help by gaps in vegetation. Vegetation grows and will be good. Elephants can make the pathway when the plants grow for animals to walk. When elephants eat branch or eat large trees it will spread out the seeds by dung. It fertilizes to get new plants or helps small plants growing more. Sometimes trees will disappear without elephants because when the elephants eat a bud of the trees it grows bigger and bigger. But if the elephants don’t eat a bud of the trees it will not grow and the sun can’t make them grow so it will disappear. The goat, panda, deer and giraffe, are the animals that are herbivores like elephants too. If they don’t get a food to eat that animals will disappear. The animals that are carnivores like lion, tiger they will die or go away.The omnivores both plants and meats of animals. If they don’t have any food they will die or disappear the same as herbivores and plants. When it is dry season elephant’s tusks are used to dig the water for other animals to drink or use it too.

March 27, 2015

My Final Economics Project

I have been learned economics class for eight weeks. This is the graph that I made with example of decreasing of supply. We’ve been learning about the shifter of supply and demand. There are five shifter of demand and five shifter of supply.
The five shifter of demand are:
1. Tastes/preferences
2. Number of consumer
3. Price of related goods
4. Income
5. Expectation
After learning all about this five shifter of demand, we made some example and graph too.
The five shifter of supply are:
1. Price of resources/Capital goods
2. Number of producer
3. Expectation
4. Technology
5. Taxes and Subsidies

This is my graph that I made at the end of this economics class. This show when the supply and quantity sold was decrease when the taxes increase. During this happened the price was increase and all of this made a new equilibrium point.

Click on the image to view.

February 6, 2015

Entrepreneurship Description

What do the main thing that I learned in the Exploration?

The main thing and meaningful for me to learn is Entrepreneurship is I meet a lot of challenges. It doesn’t mean that I can not solve it but it really hard. What I learned from it is I get abonded of experiences and craziest thing happened to me. I think this is the best and greatest Exploration that I ever been learned. I will always remember this group because in class I always be the latest student. I hope next Exploration I will be a good student than this Exploration. But I still worry about one thing. I will had next Exploration with Soliday again. In class me and Soliday never have something right with each other.But I don’t know why after we having a conflict, Soliday and I is be friendly again. This is our habit. In class we always fighting, yelling and competing. That why my teacher name Kichong said no fighting, no yelling and no competing is this class. I hope that I can do that. This day is the worst day ever for me in a worst day that I been had. Soliday said that I steal her dream, I steal her work and I steal everything, I make her dream fell. Then I though of course I steal her dream, her work but I gave her dream, her work back and she not take it. How can that be impossible! When I gave to her she just said no I don’t want to do it. Now she just play Minecraft and have fun with my friend in class but it is okay because she done her work. Kichong my teacher recommend to me to be teamwork a little bit because I usually easy to angry and the most good thing for me in class is I am proactive.

2. write the 6 terms that you think is the most important thing for you. why?
The six terms that I think it is important for me is:

Leader because in class I am a leader of the group. But my action is just normal, I never manage someone to do something. It normal for me to tell them to do what.
Second term is iteration. I like that because it show how you would want to know more about other people. Even they don’t tell you anything, or talking with you. You try to know more about people feeling and what they need.
Third is Big goal and small goal because it show how you processing, and manage which one you should do first to achieve your goal.
Forth is Resilient because I need to be commitment and strong even though I meet a lot of obstacle and I will never giving up.
Fifth is Integrity, I like this because I want don’t want to lie or cheat about selling and buying product to the customer. I should being able to be honest to the customer so they will like us more and happy to work with us.
Execute also my favorite one too because it is tell me to do my plan, by not just keep and keep for a long time.

If I could do the Entrepreneurship Exploration again, what would you do different? what product? what team? how to sell?

If yes, I will improve my team work, I will not be an angry person and I will know other people feeling even they don’t know my feeling. I will make a new product about something that better than this(I don’t know what can I make). About the team, I would want the same team even I hate this team because I want to know more about them and I can improve myself more better than before. Selling is also important too. I will contact with the companies that related to my product like calling, emailing and more. Selling is really hard because we want to make them interested at our product.

Here is the 3D video that my group made:

3D Printing

Also see this prezi of what we doing in the class.

Entrepreneurship

October 27, 2014

Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology (Eco 4)

Exploration Name: Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology (Eco 4)

Date: August 13 – October 03

Number of student: 12

Essential Questions:

How are organisms and the non-living environment interconnected in the world around us?
What is the value of TROPICAL FOREST for Cambodia?
How do humans IMPACT tropical ecosystems in Cambodia?
How can we use our knowledge about ECOLOGY to help improve Cambodia?

Trips:

Kong Kong ( 1 week)

Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (1 day)

Description:

In Cambodia Tropical Forest Ecology we studied about the Ecosystems in Cambodia and all around the world. We also learned about the many Ecological Relationships in ecosystems.

In this exploration we want to change Cambodia by giving Cambodian people the knowledge about the forest and the animals in Cambodia from our experience. We also want to protect the animals in Cambodia from the hunter also to help save the endangered animals.

Our exploration took a trip to Koh Kong to learn more about forest in Koh Kong. When we were there we went into the forest and we slept at the campsite.On our trip we walked in the forest, swam at the waterfall and slept in the forest. We also went to Mangrove forest and then we came back to Liger. We also took a trip to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center to learn about the siamese crocodile and the moon bear and sun bear. At there we met a lot of people from Free The Bears and Flora Fauna International and they taught us about the animals in the zoo.

In the classroom we learned a lot of things and we worked on projects in small groups. Our projects were about Ecological Relationships, different biomes around the world, Food Web in Koh Kong, Makey Makey Project, and Science Museum Blog. Our highlights are to understand how important the plants and animal are. Also to know about different organizations that help the animals and to understand clearly about their goal and how can they help Cambodia.

Trip Data at Chi-Pat Koh-Kong

Date	Start time	End time	Start place Elevation	End place Elevation	Total Distance(km)
23/08/2014	8:30 AM	10:40 AM	Liger 24m	wood school 104ft
	12:43 PM	3:35	Wood School, 104ft	Ondoung Teuk, 57ft(on the road)	150.9km
	3:54 PM	6:00 PM	Ondoung Teuk, 24 ft ( in boat on the water)	Chi- Phat 17m	21.95km
	6:00 PM	6:03 PM	Chi Phat 17m	While life Sanctuary Eco Tourism (dinner) 10m
24/08/2014	9:00 AM	10:31 PM	While life Sanctuary Eco Tourism	O’malu bridge 72m	12.38km
	10:31 AM	10:47 AM	O’malu bridge, 72m	O’malu camp site, 84m	1.13km
25/08/2014	8:02 AM	8:33 AM	O’malu camp site	Turn place,	2.32km
	8:33 AM	12:00 AM	O’malu camp site	Grass land, 192m	5.19km
	12:00 PM	12:43 PM	Grass land	Veal Ta Prek, 203m	7.71km
	8:02 AM	6:00 PM	O’malu camp site,	Veal Ta Prek, 203m	8.85km
26/08/2014	8:00 AM	3:15 PM	Veal Ta Prek	Domnakos, 13m	9.31km
	8:00 AM	11:00 AM	Veal Ta Prek	Water fall, Lunch time	5.03km
27/08/2014	8:16 AM	9:00 AM	Domnakos	the place wait for a boat	7km
	9:00 AM	9:20 AM	the place wait for a boat	Chi- Phat	19km
	9:20 AM	9:40 AM	Chi-Phat	Guest House	1km
28/08/2014	9:30 AM		Ondoung Teuk,	Pream Krasab Eco-Tourism, 15m	104.5km

June 17, 2014

Physics Description

Name of Course: Physics

Learning Facilitator: Phearun

Number of Students: 12

Dates: August 11-October 17, 2014

Meet: Thursday-Friday

Course Description: Our group learned about Physics. When we began to learn Physics we started to learn about the meaning of Physics. First we just listened to the teacher and learned about the theory of Physics. Sometimes the teacher told the meaning of important words in class. Then we started to work and learn about the Earth science. When we began to learn about Earth science teacher told us how many planets in solar system. Then the teacher mailed to us one video that showed about the new planet. Then he told us to take notes about that video. When we finished learning about that new planet we started to learn about the gravity on Earth. Then he put the work for us to do. When we all knew and understood about it he taught us about the new topics are buoyancy and density of the water. He also told us about formula how to find out the work that he put for us. So now we just learn more about buoyancy.

June 17, 2014

Asian Politics Description

Name of Course: Asian Politics

Learning Facilitator: Kimchhel

Number of Students : 9

Dates: March 30 – June 12

In our class we studied about the countries that joined ASEAN. First teacher wrote the names of the countries on pieces of paper. Then each student did the lucky draw to pick the country that they needed to research. When we got enough information we created the presentation on Prezi, Google Presentation or OneNote. After three weeks of doing the research we started to present about the country that we did research about. We talked about the flag, land and population, religion, GDP and some other things. We did some comparisons between some countries to Cambodia. For example in 2003 Cambodia is having more trade freedom than thailand but in 2014 thailand is having more trade freedom than Cambodia. Another example is in 2005 Laos having more trade freedom than Cambodia but in 2014 Cambodia is having more trade freedom than Cambodia. After everyone did their presentation the teacher introduced more about ASEAN politics. The categories that he taught us were political systems (ex. communism and democracy), the start of ASEAN (why ASEAN started), the history of ASEAN countries (revolution from some powerful countries) and so on. ASEAN started because two reasons. One is because to prevent from war (island conflict) and another reason because to block communist influence (Cold War). In about 19th century France there was a revolution to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and more but not Thailand because they talked with England that Thailand is the border of the country that they do the revolution on. Moreover teacher also taught us that ASEAN divided into two parts. One is Indochina (Thailand, Burma) and another one is Malaysa (island country).

I got Lao as my country to present.

This is the prezi I made for Lao Presentation

June 16, 2014

Refuse Plastic Description

WIN_20140606_142530 (2) — The bag I made from Pastic

Our exploration learned about refuse plastic. We learned about refuse plastic because we see in Phnom Penh that there is a lot of plastic bags. Plastic is everywhere around Phnom Penh. So we want to reuse the plastic waste.

See this presentation to find out what we had done!

In the first week we started to talk about the plastic. We talked about the things we know about plastic, what we want to know and what an idea or wonder is that we have. When we talked about this already, one person volunteered to write down a note.

When we do that already Max told us to do an experiment about the waste that we make in one week. He gave us one plastic bag. We shared our ideas, our thinking about how much we making waste in one day or one week. So after one week we shared all the rubbish and collected it together.

My understanding is that all the rubbish can be reused, reduced, and recycled. My challenge was that I forgot to take the rubbish bag with me all the time and sometimes I forgot about putting the rubbish in my rubbish bag. This assignment changed my behavior because I can remember that if somewhere there is not a rubbish bin I can put it in my pocket or in my rubbish bag. It surprised me that I can know how much rubbish I make in one day because all the time if I have rubbish I always just throw it in the rubbish bin. But it was less than the rubbish that I thought it would be. The rubbish that is necessary is 30% and the rubbish that I don’t need is 70%. Now I know that I need to change my behavior in the future. That means I do not forget about the things I need.

We also learned about the problem when burn, bury, throw away and landfill. The problem of burning the plastic is, it can make Co2. When Co2 goes to the atmosphere it can increase the climate change. It can make the greenhouse effect if we burn a lot of plastic. When the Greenhouse effect happens we can not get a lot of energy from the sun. The Sun gives us 100% of energy; we just get 70% of the energy and 30% bounces out to the universe. Another problem is when we burn the plastic it makes toxic gas. Toxic gas is very bad for us. It can make us headache, or heart problem, cancer, weakness, and mutation. Mutation means that you will get two heads or three arms like that. Bio accumulation is the problem too. It changes people’s hormones. When we burn the plastic it changes people’s hormones because it can make you fat or change our body. The problem of bury is polluting water and bad for soil. Plastic has chemicals. When we bury it the chemicals go into the soil so the plants can not grow on that soil.

The problem of landfill is it use a lot of space and is expensive to do. When we put the rubbish in the landfill it can kill the animals because animals come to eat that plastic. The rubbish in the landfill will make methane gas because the organic waste does not decompose. Methane gas is the gas that is 21 times more dangerous than Co2.

The problem of throwing the rubbish away is it will clog the drain. It means when the plastic is in the drain the water can’t go through so it will became flooded. Also it is related to the tourism because when tourists come they see a lot of plastic and they think that Cambodia is not the good place because it has lots of plastic at the road and everywhere. Sometimes it is dangerous for the people because when the people use transportation by motor or car, the wind will blow the plastic to their face so they can’t see anything. When we throw the rubbish it will make the mosquitoes because mosquitoes like to live in the dark place and have the water. We all were understanding the problem so we started to do more research about it.

This is the prezi I made for the effect of burn, bury, throw, incinerator and landfill.

Trip

Now let me talk about our trip. On Friday, 16th June 2014, my refuse plastic team went on a trip. On the trip we went to BKK (Boeung Keng Kong) market, City mall market and Cintri. We went there because we wanted to interview, survey, and do observing. We prepared our questions on Thursday to help us do that work. When we arrived there we split into teams.We interviewed and surveyed the sellers and the buyers. They talked about the plastic. They said sometimes plastic is good for us to carry thing like clothes, shoes, plates…. . But sometimes it is not good for our health because plastic has chemicals and when we put the hot things like porridge it can make the plastic get thin so it is easy to tear. When I went there I felt happy but sometimes I felt scared because I didn’t know the people that I asked. My highlight is that I could interview the people and know more ideas from them. When we finished we went to Olympic Stadium at 12:00pm to eat lunch. We ate breads and cookies. When we finished eating we met together and did some reflection. At 01:35pm we went to Cintri to ask questions about plastic. We arrived there at 2:05pm. The staff at there took us to the conference room. When we met one man he introduced himself. Later one man came and told us about the plastic and about their company. Cintri is the company that goes to collect the rubbish outside in the city. Cintri’s challenge is that when they go to collect the rubbish the people don’t organize their rubbish so it is hard for them to collect. Another thing is that when they go to collect the rubbish it is hard for them to push the trash when there is sand on the road. Sometimes when the people have a celebration or party they just throw the rubbish away. It also showed about people’s behavior that they don’t respect the rules, they just follow other people. If one person puts the rubbish not organize then other people will do that too. But now Cintri tries to make rubbish bins for putting the rubbish and tells the people to have good behavior. People can change their behavior by respecting the rules and helping change Cambodia by not throwing the rubbish away.

This is the prezi I made for our trips.

In class

In class we interviewed the people about the plastic. They came to our school and taught about the plastic to us. One man tried to make the community people understand about plastic. Another man talked about the plastic too. He tried to make us know more and we asked questions to him.

Next we started to learn about solutions about plastic waste. Our solution was reduce, reuse and recycle. But next lesson we learned about 5D. Next we did research and to solve that problem. Now we started to make things. Next we started to develop and tried to deploy. It means we need to reduce the plastic. We need to use less plastic. You can buy the reusable bags for putting things when you go to the market. When we have a lot of plastics we need to reuse them by making some things like bags and flowers. When you reuse the plastics it is better than you taking the plastics to throw away. You can recycle the plastic if you can’t use it again by bringing it into the factory. It is a very good thing that you need to reduce before reuse, do reuse before recycle and do recycle before throwing it away.

After we learned about reduce, reuse and recycle we started to do a survey in the Liger community. When we went there we divided in four groups. When we surveyed, a lot of people said they burned the plastic or threw away. The organic waste they will not compost. People just threw away that waste to everywhere. They didn’t know when they threw the rubbish it would affect the environment. But in the community people like to use the reusable bags when they go to the market.

Prezi I made for the 3R

When we came back we started to reuse the the plastic. So we started to make something new from the plastic like bags. I wanted to do this because I want to help and reuse plastic because Cambodian people now are using a lot of plastic and don’t care about the environment in the future. When I do this I can put my money or my pencil in it. People want it because I made a design and the importance of my ideas are that it was made from plastic. So I can reuse plastic and help the environment to be good.

How to make a bag from recycle plastic!

If you want to make a bag you need to have plastic, scissors, needle, thread, iron and some of the pictures on the plastic. The first step is we take the plastic and then cut the bottom and the handle of the plastic out. After you cut already you can take it to iron. You can make your bag five to six layers. If you have the big plastic you can iron and iron it again for six layers because we want it to be strong. When you iron you need to be careful because the iron is so hot. Also if you want your bag to look really nice you need to make the plastic smooth when you iron. Next is you bend it for three layers. It means you can bend any style. For me I bend the long one to the top and then I make the space for their lips. When you bend already you take the needle to sew the two sides of the bag. You can sew any style. When you sew already you can cut the pictures from the plastic to put on the plastic to look nice. To do that you can take the picture and then put it on your plastic so you iron it with plastic because when you iron, the picture will stick on your bag. If you want to make the button, you put that button and sew it on the lip of bag. When you did that finished you can take the scissors to cut the two slits at the front side of the bag. So you can take the string to tie it with the two slits like the circle and then you can connect it with the button. So you can have a nice bag for putting your things.

When we did that already we sat and talked about our reflections to friends about doing this project. I appreciated to everyone in my refuse plastic class that they worked hard and tried to wait for the iron.

After that me and my two friends started to work on the presentation to share to all Liger students and the staff in Liger school. When we did the presentation we felt like scared because we didn’t learn so much about the plastic and also other presentations they learned already so it is hard for me. But it is okay I was very happy to share my ideas to other people and show that Liger is the good school to teach the lesson.
If you want to look at some other of my friend’s projects you can go to:
http://refuseplastic.ligercambodiablog.org/