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On August 8, 2009,

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Typhoon Morakot hit.

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Villages,

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houses,

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fields were all destroyed.

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Kids had no home to go to,

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they stayed at school.

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The foundation said to me, Teacher Tien,

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you’ve taught natural science for years

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at the Mandarin Daily News in Taipei.

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When you go to the mountains this time,

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can you also arrange a few classes?

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Director, teachers, students,

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Hello to you all. (Hello.)

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Do you want to hear a story? (Yes!)

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But this story is very scary.

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In olden times a king went to war.

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The enemy fled.

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The enemy fled.

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He came back.

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After he came back something happened.

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What happened? He fled to the mountains

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and an Ah Piao came back with him.

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Ah Piao? Ah Piao is a ghost!

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That’s right, how do you know?

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Writing a story

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or creating a scenario

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gets kids invested in a life situation

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before they enter into

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inflexible and serious

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scientific theory.

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They already revel in your story.

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Let’s have Miss Chang come up.

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That’s it, well held.

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Get ready, 1 2 3...

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Ready, 1 2 3, let go.

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OK, did you catch an Ah Piao? (No.)

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You didn’t. Give her a clap.

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The first year I went, these first graders,

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Then the 2nd year, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th grades,

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5th and 6th grades, all along,

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I could see very clearly

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these kids’

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thirst for learning

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about natural science

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had got much stronger.

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For me as a teacher, this is an

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important feeling of accomplishment.

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I find a cup exactly the same,

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then pour water to exactly

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the same height.

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Then I take three straws.

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Just now it was Little Chang.

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Now it’s old Tien.

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Hey!

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Look.

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Now, why did I succeed?

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Who here in the class

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has a keen sense of smell?

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Is there anyone?

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Bring it to your nose, waft it.

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Waft it to smell.

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How does it smell? (Like bleach… no, alcohol.)

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Like alcohol, good. Give him a clap.

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Great.

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You pour the alcohol in,

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you see the alcohol floats on the salad oil.

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That means the alcohol is what?

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(Lighter) Lighter.

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If I put the straws in the alcohol, you see

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capillary action takes place.

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It takes a ride to the top floor.

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Then I put them in the water,

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the water’s in the basement,

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will the water come up?

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Are the two weights the same?

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(No.) Not the same.

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I put the straws in alcohol

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then in the water, that’s the key.

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If I’m teaching the same science

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in the capital, I ask the kids

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For their response, their associations.

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Then I go up into the mountains,

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the kids from remote tribal townships,

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their response is every bit as good

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as the kids in the big city.

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If you come here even once,

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it helps them out a lot.

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Before when we did science class,

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the experiments we did were

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just the few in the textbooks.

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But in Teacher Tien’s classes

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he shows us many more.

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After taking Teacher Tien’s class

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I feel like I’ve learned secrets

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and how you do things

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and now I like science more.

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OK, take it.

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I’ll do it once to show you.

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(Wow! No way!)

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Get ready, go!

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Touch your string.

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When you’re done,

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touch my string

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Now turn around.

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A healthy hand knows straight away.

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Your string is -- (Dry.)

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My string is -- (Wet.)

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Exactly the same action!

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OK get ready, once more.

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Hey hey, give him a clap.

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This is the capillary action I told you.

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When I make my string wet

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and I pour again,

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does the water in the cup know the string

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or know the water in the string?

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(The water in the string.) You’ve got it!

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In everything you have to be curious.

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When you are curious, you have

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that motivation to dig deeper.

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If you think everything is just natural,

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that’s just how it is

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how else would it be?

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If you have that attitude,

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everything that happens, you’ll miss it.

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Just miss it.

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Please, spend your every day

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with care and attention.

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Everything that happens every day,

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take care how you look at it.

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Because this is the age

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where they’re collecting information

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and storing it in their brains.

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This is He-Gang Elementary (Thank you.)

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saying thank you to Teacher

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1 2 3 (Thank you! Thank you!)