Students use areca leaves and cardboard to create historical learning models

The 2024 National Youth and Children’s Creativity Contest, which was just awarded on November 2, has many winning projects because of useful inventions for learning history.

Among this group of students, Cau Giay Secondary School (Hanoi) won a special prize with a model of the Cu Chi tunnels. Authors Luu Bao Chau, Nguyen Duy Kien, Nguyen Lam Uyen, Le Ngoc Khai (9th grade), Vy Nguyen Thanh Mai (8th grade) use plaster, cardboard and other recycled, environmentally friendly materials. school to make tunnel models.

The group created a cross-section with 5 sides illustrating details on the ground and the tunnel, helping visitors visualize the entire life of Cu Chi’s soldiers and people, as well as the fierce nature of the resistance war against Cu Chi. France and anti-America. Using the model, students can participate in a learning experience tour to explore the Cu Chi Tunnels without having to go there.

The product uses solar batteries and sensors to help detect people to program the program to run and stop. The sensor also helps turn on, sound, and light when there are people and turn off when not, to save energy, creating the best experience for users.

The content is written in Vietnamese and English, with recorded lyrics, information lookup, videos, games and many interactive questions… to help students have a completely new experience when learning history. history.

The research team said that in the coming time, they will continue to create different versions of the tunnels with smaller sizes to suit different teaching conditions across the country, especially in schools in remote areas. remote area.

Coming from Quang Nam, Vo Thi Thuy Tien, class 5A, Primary School No. 1, Duy Nghia, Duy Xuyen won first prize with the Victory cave model on Bach Dang River. Use areca leaves to make boats, foam boxes, fish tank pumps, pieces of foam to pretend to be rocky mountains, water valves, sticks to make stakes, glue, accessories… the model recreates the historical battle of yesteryear.

Thuy Tien said that the purpose of making the model is to help students love History more, always remember the victories of previous generations, especially understand military art based on the ebb and flow of tides. Let the enemy army fall into the stakes.

To use the model to illustrate the lesson, the teacher needs to pour water into the battle ground so that the water covers the pump at the bottom. When the lecture reached the part “hearing the news that the Southern Han army was coming to invade our country, Ngo Quyen ordered the army and people to carve sharp stakes and stick them in the Bach Dang River” – the teacher illustrated by taking a toothpick and sticking it into the river bed.

When the lesson comes to the part where the Southern Han army comes to high water – the teacher turns on the pump to let the water pump up, creating a big surge. Ngo Quyen sent a light boat out to challenge – the teacher pushed Ngo Quyen’s small boat out to lure the Southern Han army.

When the Nam Han army chased after them – the teacher used his hand to push the Nam Han army boat to chase after the Ngo Quyen army. When the Nam Han army crossed the pile, just as the tide receded sharply – the teacher turned off the pump and the water receded. At that time, Ngo Quyen sent troops to ambush on the river to attack – the teacher pushed the ambush boats on the river to push the Nam Han army into the stakes to destroy.

Dr. Phan Xuan Dung, Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, Chairman of the VIFOTEC Foundation, Head of the Steering Committee for the evaluation contest, creative ideas with products and models, associated with life and Contributing to protecting the environment, being able to apply it to subjects and real life, it has practical significance and arouses and promotes the nation’s fine tradition of kindness for thousands of years.

This is the 20th year the contest is organized by the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education and Training, to honor and nurture Nurturing creative passion for young people who cherish the dream of becoming researchers and inventors with products that benefit society.