On the afternoon of June 19th, the Hualien Benchmark and Seed School Curriculum Results Presentation was held at Daoxiang Elementary School in Hualien. It was hosted by Professor Gao Zhenfeng, co-host of the project, and counselor Zhong Kaiping of Hualien County Government, Dean Xu Xiuju of Donghua University, and Lin Yongli Professors came together to give guidance, and launched a series of cross-domain aesthetic exchange feasts on a hot summer afternoon.
At the beginning, Mingyi Elementary School took the lead in sharing Chagall's "Love and Beauty Store" curriculum, which combines school-based reading, Chinese language, health, society and other fields, guiding students to start from understanding themselves, with the theme of the connection between themselves, their families and their hometown. Closely linked to students’ lives. Continuing the cross-disciplinary course "Knowing the Beauty of Daoxiang" brought by Daoxiang Elementary School that integrates society, language and information, students can learn about the local Daoxiang, its beauty, history and humanity, and combine it with the traditional window grill paper-cutting art to teach Students use the online design software Canva to create window flower poetry cards.
At the junior high school level, in the first semester of Guofeng Junior High School, students are guided to learn and apply the laws of mathematical sequences and similar shapes to artistic creation and expression, transforming rational mathematics into works of art with warmth; in the second semester, students are taught to learn from the delicate guests on campus - the endangered species. The conservation animal flying fox is used as the main axis to lead students to observe the tree ecology in the campus. Combined with the collection of plant sense, students can use the color and shape of natural materials to experience the creation of handmade paper and specimen boxes. Fengbin Junior High School starts from the culture of the local aboriginal ethnic group and combines life science and technology, nature, social culture and other fields to allow students to go into the forest. In the process of interacting with the environment, they accumulate physical experience and materials, and integrate them into Maker value co-created with the environment!
Finally, the Hualien Institute of Technology brought a modular cross-domain aesthetic board game course, using the fields of art, art life, mathematics, chemistry, Chinese and cartography, with the theme of "travel", and using discovery, exploration and application as the Step-by-step teaching strategies guide students to appreciate knowledge and practice aesthetics, enhance their ability to observe and experience life experiences, and allow students to discover that beauty exists in daily life.
Hualien's cross-domain aesthetic courses start from the local area and interweave aspects such as the natural environment, social humanities, and life science and technology. The press conference ended successfully in the warm aesthetic venue of Daoxiang Elementary School, with Principal Chen Cifang mobilizing school teachers to prepare fragrant coffee and pastries. We look forward to Hualien continuing to develop more diverse, rich and moving cross-domain aesthetic courses!