1. Getting to know Taiwan About Taiwan Taiwan’s attractions
Taiwan’s culture and art
Picture source: Welcome to Taiwan

2. Getting to know Taiwan
Through introducing a strange country, Taiwan, you can get some concepts about Taiwan’s general information, famous places, culture, and art before the next activity comes. The goal of the class is to help you understanding Taiwan, and then you can get some ideas for the next activity, Webquest.
Picture source: Clip Art and Media

3. About Taiwan General description President: Chen Shui-bian
Capital city: Taipei
Main language: Mandarin Chinese, Min-nan.
Geography: Island (off the southeastern coast of mainland Asia)
Weather: Hot and humid
Picture source: Sheng-Web

4. Taiwan’s Attractions Natural scenic places
1. Northeast Coast National Scenic Area
-Its coastline runs 66 kilometers.
2. East Coast National Scenic Area
-A river runs from east mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
Picture source: East Rift Valley National Scenic Area

5. Taiwan’s Attractions Natural scenic places
3. East Rift Valley National Scenic Area (Rivers are the main characteristic.)
-North Valley: There are farms, forests, and aboriginal cultural sites.
-Central Valley: The main feature is rural villages.
-South Valley: Divided into three main areas by rivers.
(1) Chishang/ Guanshan/ Southern Cross-Island Highway.
(2) Luye/ Yanping
(3) Beinan

6. Taiwan’s Attractions National scenic places
1. Yangmingshan National Park
-The area: hectare.
-A lots of various plants and animals.
-The renown: the wealth of unusual volcanic features and topography.

7. Taiwan’s Attractions National scenic places 2. Yushan National Park
-The area: 105,4908 hectare.
-Cover three mountains, Nantou Hsien, Chayi Hsien, Kaoshan Hsien and
Hualien Hsien.
-The main economical resource for local people is forests.
-The area of biological reserve occupies ha.

8. Taiwan’s Attractions National scenic places 3. Kinmen National Park
-The area: 3720 hectare.
-Include five areas: Mt. Taiwu, Kuningtou, Kukang, Mashan Hill and Liehyu.
-Underwent many representable wars.
-The first national park of historic-war reserve , cultural and biological reserve.

9. Taiwan’s culture and art
- Culture backgrounds from China, Japan, Holland,
Spain, Portugal, and aborigine.
-Chinese culture is the mainstream.
-Colonial cultures are presented to architectures.
-Taiwan’s diet is famous in the world.
Picture source: Welcome to Taiwan

10. Taiwan’s culture and art
-Stone and wood carving
-Traditional Chinese painting of mountains and water
-Different cultural dances
-Traditional opera
-Puppet shows
-Architectures
-Embroidery
-Chinese Music: erhu fiddle, Lonng Chinese zither, etc.
Picture source: Beautiful cultures

11. References 1. http://202.39.225.132/jsp/Eng/html/search/index.jsp1.
Welcome to Taiwan 2.
Yangmingshan National Park 3.
Yushan National Park 4.
Kinmen National Park 5.
Northeast Coast National Scenic Area 6.
East Coast National Scenic Area 7.
East Rift Valley National Scenic Area 8.
Clip Art and Media 9.
Beautiful cultures

12. Prepare the next activity: WebQuest
Welcome to Taiwan :