Zhongzheng Junior High School in Keelung City - Da Yukewei: Observation is your imagination

The course is extended from the "Seeing the Small and Seeing Beauty - Stunning New Horizons" exhibition of Quanta Art Travel Project. The exhibition and course allow students to understand what natural observation is through art and photography works, interactive installations, physical exhibits, etc. How to observe nature and start a series of learning from recording nature. The course emphasizes the importance of "observation" and encourages students to look at daily things with new horizons and new perspectives, make new discoveries beyond the appearance of things, and even have different aesthetic experiences. This course also particularly emphasizes the importance of "natural observation intelligence", which was listed as the eighth intelligence in human intelligence performance by Professor Howard Gardner (1995) of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The ability to keenly observe the natural environment has become an important part of children's many intellectual performances, and it is a potential that is worth developing. Nowadays, students have few opportunities to come into contact with the natural environment, but our school is located next to Zhongzheng Park in Keelung City and enjoys a rich natural ecological environment. The campus is surrounded by green hills, undulating according to the situation, taking in the beauty of the mountains and seas, and being shaded by the park. There are many wild and planted flowers and trees on the campus. When teachers and students of our school come to the school, they feel like they are in a natural field. Perhaps students have become too accustomed to such an environment, or perhaps because of their busy schedules, even in such an environment, students rarely stop to observe and appreciate the details of the school's rich natural environment. It is expected that through the implementation of the curriculum, teachers and students will gain different benefits from the school's natural environment.

For thousands of years, when people encounter unsolvable problems, think of new things, or seek artistic inspiration, they always learn from nature and imitate its wisdom. The course hopes that teachers and students can get close to nature, understand nature, love nature, and get inspiration for artistic creation from nature starting from campus. And can observe ordinary things in life, and give daily things more interesting interpretations through different ways of viewing.

In the course "Small Corner, Big Campus - Deeply Planted in My Heart" in Unit 1, teachers and students first started by understanding the common plants on campus, combined with common sense and knowledge in various fields, and carefully observed the common plants on the campus of Nottingham University. Each student observes and studies a plant, searches for relevant information about the plant, and then completes the record using scientific drawing. In the process of observing and understanding plants, it is often necessary to walk around the campus, and teachers and students also have more opportunities to coexist with nature. Observe through plants and appreciate the beauty of nature. Unit 2 "Small Observations and Big Discoveries - The Blurred Colors" teachers and students opened the window of color to re-observe and experience the ever-changing colors in the natural environment of the campus. Using colors from nature as materials, he creates watercolor works made with rendering techniques. And according to the rendering effect, lines and color blocks are added to complete the work based on the colors of nature. Unit 3 "Little People, Big World - Stunning New Horizons" introduces students to the macro photography of Japanese photographer Tanaka Tatsuya. For Tanaka Tatsuya, the more boring daily life, the more interesting pictures and stories can be created. Tatsuya Tanaka conveys the idea that "from a different perspective, ordinary life can be interesting." Small details that are overlooked in daily life become vivid and lovely under his skillful hands, creating amusing new visions. Teachers and students look at different corners of the classroom from different angles and viewpoints, and take photos with model dolls. After opening up new horizons, they can appreciate the deeper fun beyond the superficial.