News source: Liao Peiling reported in Taipei

Gong Yong serves as a teacher in the biology class and introduces the concepts of botany and scientific drawing.

Taiwan's education has been subject-oriented for many years, and finally began to reflect on the possibility of horizontal connection of courses, focusing on cultivating students to acquire knowledge that can be taken away. The aesthetic education course of Taichung No. 1 Middle School adopts cross-field teaching of biology and art, so that each student can be both rational and emotional. , all have the chance to become a modern Da Vinci!

In order to promote the new curriculum, Taichung No. 1 Middle School is a seed school in the Central District of the Ministry of Education's cross-disciplinary aesthetic education program. It attempts to combine art-related courses with different disciplines to develop courses with literacy-oriented education concepts.

The aesthetic education curriculum is developed and led by art teacher Zhu Zhongyong and biology teacher Gong Yongren, looking for interdisciplinary possibilities in ink flower creation and scientific drawing of animals and plants. In the early stages of course development, we invited botanical cartographers from the Science and Technology Museum to provide additional training, so that teachers could better understand the performance techniques and observation points of scientific plant drawings.

Generally speaking, students in the art class of the arts department focus on the perceptual level in their creations. In the process of observing and depicting plants, they are more romantic and not rigorous enough. However, from a biological perspective, they need to rigorously analyze the growth of all plants. Record and describe the status and details.

In the interdisciplinary course on the 26th, teacher Gong Yongren introduced the concepts of botany and scientific drawing in the biology class, asking students to think about the similarities and differences between the two; teacher Zhu Zhongyong taught the meticulous flower sketching technique in the ink class, and the two teachers jointly Guide students to campus observation and plant sketching, and help students find changes in the focus of observation and performance before and after the course is introduced.

The concept of literacy education is to teach students who are both rational and emotional, just like Leonardo da Vinci in the Renaissance, who are both artists and scientists. Under the concept of holistic education, they can be open-minded in the face of the unknown world. Attitudes, possessing both rational and emotional perceptive abilities, constructing a knowledge system from multiple perspectives.