G8

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The purpose of the G8 Capstone Research Project is to allow every student to exhibit the skills and knowledge that he or she has gained in Middle School and to demonstrate readiness to enter Tsinglan’s Upper School. This project encourages the four “C’s” as identified by Tsinglan School: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Creativity.

Students developed a line of inquiry and explored a rigorous research topic that is relevant to their lives and their community. Students worked closely with their English teachers, homeroom teachers and primary research mentors to identify, research and find solutions for problems on the local, national and global scale. This project, along with May 20th’s final presentations, demonstrated their cumulative growth since joining our school.

The project was designed to incorporate the skills that students will need as they enter the Upper School while encouraging inquiry, analysis, synthesis, rigor, and collaboration.

We began the project with no limit on each student's line of inquiry except the awareness that he or she each had to write a 2,000 word research paper while engaging in three months of in-depth research on a single topic.

Students began by researching topics of interest with a focus on choosing academic sources using the EBSCO and Gale databases, as provided by the Tsinglan Library, and Google Scholar. Over the next week and a half, they wrote summaries for sources that they planned on using in their secondary research divs of the report.

Students then wrote their introductions which included a summary of the topic leading to the research question, reasons for conducting research in order to answer the question and goals for the outcome of the project.

Next came the secondary research div, which many students found most challenging, because writing it requires factual presentation of source information, analysis and evaluation of source information, drawing connections between various sources, and synthesizing source information. Finally, students explained their reasoning and logic leading to their conclusions and formed a hypothesis for primary research.

Finally, it was time to begin the primary research process. At this point, students were allowed to form groups of up to three or to continue working individually. Most students who formed groups chose to work with other students who had a similar topic. Some formed groups and focused on only one group member’s research question. 

Students designed preliminary primary research plans in preparation for meeting their project mentors. Throughout these meetings, students refined their research plans and reported results to their mentors. Many of the experiments and investigations failed for a variety of reasons, but students responded by conducting the experiments again under more controlled circumstances and by designing new experiments.

In the final week, students finalized their presentations and rehearsed leading to what you saw and heard last Friday or what you will read below.

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听起来同学们的研究报告都遵循严谨的学术逻辑，一定是枯燥无味的吧，但实际上，孩子们的选题关心社会关心世界，也非常贴近生活，趣味横生。

龚愉心同学的妈妈表示，“每组孩子所选择的意题都不一样，话题范围很广，都很有特点。”她分享了在40分钟里，她听到的四组同学的展示：

“第一组关注在用抖音帮助偏僻地区的人提高他们特产的销量是否可行，最有特色的地方在于他们真的放了一些传统糖果在桌子上。孩子们还真诚的告诉我，虽然他们的抖音短视频只有200左右的阅读量，但是事后和店家联系真的是有一对小夫妻因为看到抖音而去了店里买糖果。

第二组孩子关注点在于街舞方面，介绍了好多种街舞的背景起源，最后用校内调查的数据告诉我最受欢迎的舞种是K-POP（和我个人的经验吻合）。

第三组的关注点在于打折销售是否会造成过度购买，他们这一组的数据做的是最好的，不但有数据来源的省份统计，有按性别划分的统计，还有年龄段的统计，最后孩子的结论是女性更容易因为打折而过度购买，但打折并不是造成过度购买的唯一因素。不错不错！

第四组的话题也有意思，是青少年追星的问题。她们展示的亮点在于明确了追星是有好处的，还能治疗抑郁症（或者有帮助），最终落点告诉来听展示的家长别一味阻止孩子追星，是有好处的。”

除此之外，八年级的同学们的话题还涉及动物实验、税收、免费医疗、社交媒体等。

方子杭同学的研究问题是对富人征税的利弊

郭子睿同学探讨中国为什么不需要免费医疗

Morgan Bieber 和李妍同学向家长汇报社交媒体怎么影响青少年

家长和老师为同学们的研究写下鼓励的话或可以改进的地方

瞿翊酌同学的妈妈表示，“感谢学校提供给孩子们一个锻炼的机会，让他们设计制作自己感兴趣的毕业项目，并将自己的理解展现给大家，既锻炼了孩子的写作水平，也锻炼了口语能力以及演讲能力，希望后续学校还能组织类似活动，给孩子们提供更多的机会，让他们不断成长，更加大胆和自信。”

Mr. Raviola为观众介绍最终入围选手们

Ms. Butrum, 姜校长，Mr.Klopper 和 Mr. Almich为本次汇报演讲担任评委

不少观众感叹孩子们对于学术研究的严谨。

秦语晗同学的妈妈说：“（毕业项目的）内容涉及经济、文化、环保、手机游戏、疫情、饮食、行为、记忆、艺术……涵盖方方面面，我感叹于他们兴趣之广泛；虽然内容千差万别，但都遵循着较为严谨的研究方法和报告逻辑。演讲有的慷慨激昂有的娓娓道来，回答评委的问题有人不假思索有人沉着冷静。孩子们个个都发着光。”

岳如一同学的妈妈也表示：“同学们的表现让我惊讶：很多同学非常的自信舒展，魅力四射。每一组演讲的主题结构完整，层次分明，都有数据和调研作为支撑。”

现在，就请欣赏舞台上孩子们的风采。

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王恩循和傅昱嘉同学探讨的是超加工食物对人们身体健康的影响。他们将超加工食品分成了两类：正餐和零食，从中选取样本记录下它们的营养成分，从而对比这两类超加工食品蛋白质、碳水化合物、脂肪、纳和能量密度的含量，最终得出结论超加工的零食反而相对健康。另外，他们也设置了调查问卷了解人们对超加工食品的认知和态度。

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熊天浩、颜孜宇和范冰凌同学连续三天利用午餐时间进行的实验中，对比了The Method of Loci, The Chunking Method 和 The Storytelling Method，并证实了他们的假设——The Storytelling Method（讲故事方法）是最高效的记忆方法。

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岳如一、李思涵、和王卓妍同学走访了四家不同类型餐厅，从受欢迎的奶茶店到隐秘的私房菜，探讨食物与抽象艺术的关联。

同样以艺术作为调查方向的张筠露和贺葛思嘉同学发放了调查问卷并采访了清澜山学校的同学和老师，调查书法的未来发展。她们得出结论，书法在将来会作为心灵追求的艺术形式出现，不再是生活的必须；为我们对传统艺术的传承和发展带来思考。

李邦瑞和肖凡同学的研究聚焦于怎么投资“体育卡”能获得最大的收益。而金子曰同学采访了拥有和管理私营企业经验的企业家，研究由于民营企业的发展，国内市场的竞争是否会变得更激烈。

王舒漾和宁盛康同学通过线上或线下的方式采访了中美两国的学生和成人，调查他们面对疫情的三个维度"学业、安全、健康"的态度的区别。他们的采访结果显示，因为网课缺乏老师监管，学生常常感到缺少动力，并且学生们的参与度和注意力会降低。他们提出解决方案：尝试用项目式学习 (task based) 而不是授课式学习 (lecture based)。而在心理上，疫情往往带来一些压力和焦虑，他们建议学习应该理解学生并提供课外的空闲时间。另外，他们也认为网课不是一个可持续的解决方法。

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龚愉心和陈彦兰同学则选择北非国家摩洛哥为切入点，为他们提出解决水资源稀缺的问题的方案。她们不仅仅为摩洛哥从四个方面（Desalination, Brine disposal, Reservoir Evaporation 和 Rainwater Harvesting）提出一个完整的计划，甚至为计划计算出预算金额。

通过实验和调查问卷，李真可翌、赵谦瑞和钱俊豪同学认为电子游戏不是一无是处，虽然长时间的暴力网络游戏会导致更具侵略性的处事方法，但合作型的游戏也能增进朋友间的互助。因此他们提出，应该控制暴力网络游戏的时间或改变游戏类型。