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Walk through the old streets of the business district, enter the beauty of the classroom, and resonate between art and the local area. On April 25, 2015, the National Pingtung University Experimental Elementary School (NPU Elementary School) held the Ministry of Education's "Cross-disciplinary Aesthetic Education Excellence Pilot Project" benchmark school curriculum exchange exhibition - "Pingtung Hundred Craftsmen: Records, Art, and Exhibitions." This exhibition brings together the essence of a whole year of cross-domain learning by teachers and students, and uses dynamic and static performances to show how the campus is deeply rooted in the local area, revitalizes learning, and practices the perfect intersection of aesthetics and education.

On the day of the event, Principal Gao Jianmin gave an opening speech, emphasizing the practical process of "diversified learning and local connection" of Pingtung University Affiliated Primary School to create a learning environment that is tangible and warm. Fourth-grade students transformed themselves into "Messengers of Craftsmen" and brought a dynamic performance interweaving stories and art, "Exploring the Old Commercial District with the Visual Poetry". They integrated the art of visual poetry with body movements and led the audience on a poetic journey of words and bodies.

The exhibition also invited Vice President Shi Baijun of National Pingtung University, Associate Professor Xu Wenjun, a new media artist, CEO Zhao Wenjun of Pingtung Youth Volunteer Center, and cultural and creative workers Chen Jianan and Li Yunjie from the Central Business District to participate in the event.

Guests and students participated in art experience activities such as "Poetry of the Body" and "Sustainable Printing", walking from the campus to the neighborhood, touching life through art, and showing the depth and warmth of education. This curriculum plan is led by teacher Pan Shanchi, who works with teaching experts in various fields within the school to design a full-year cross-disciplinary learning plan for fourth-grade students.

With the theme of "Hundred Craftsmen of Pingtung", the children went deep into the central business district for field visits and interviews with people. Through exploration activities such as photography editing and architectural aesthetics, they experienced the spirit of craftsmen and the texture of their hometown, and transformed what they saw and felt into visual poems, rubbings, hand-painted patterns and body performances, creating a learning process with an aesthetic vision.

In addition, the curriculum covers a variety of topics: career exploration, gender equality, hometown sustainability, and SEL (social emotional learning) self-awareness, which fully inspires students to re-understand and re-imagine life, land, and themselves.

"Ji" means recording and remembering, "Yi" means art and skill, and "Zhan" means showing and developing. "Hundred Craftsmen of Pingtung: Records, Art, and Exhibition" is not only a course exhibition, but also an exchange for children to tell local stories through art and practice beauty with their bodies.

Pingtung University Affiliated Primary School hopes that through such educational practices, children can see the world with aesthetic eyes, connect with their hometown with creative language, and inject new vitality into local culture.