National Tsing Hua University Affiliated Experimental Elementary School—Zhi Xiang Listens to the Wind and Tells Stories

Since entering the affiliated elementary school, students have received numerous learning and creative experiences with various courses and media, practicing many thematic courses under the curriculum arrangement and planning. This interdisciplinary aesthetics project started with observations and understanding of the campus and a walking tour of the living environment - Hsinchu, the "Windy City". The fallen leaves and plants seen on campus every day became the origin of the course ideas. The wind blowing the fallen leaves, the beauty of the falling leaves, the diversity of shapes and colors, the wind became the key to this picture. Through the wind, we rediscovered the beauty of plants. Dandelions spread their seeds and continued life through the wind. We saw, heard, and felt different natural landscapes and forms because of the wind, using our senses to get closer to the connection between plants and the wind, and rediscovered the growing environment through the course and creation. The natural landscape and ecological features of the campus and living environment and their impact on our lives were then discussed, shared, and analyzed in the classroom. The children talked about their feelings and discoveries about the observations. Through walking tours, keen observation, recording and discussion, and thinking about the connection between the environment and their own life experiences, they understood the relationship between the ecology of the growing environment and the culture of life, and cultivated a sense of identity, care and emotion for local characteristics and culture. The expression of art learning focuses on sustainability and innovation. Students actively discover and think about how art can make every teacher and student on campus feel the charm of the campus environment, and extend to the living environment - Hsinchu, so that the local environment and cultural characteristics can shine sustainably through the energy of art.

(I) A trend arises with art
以「風」為主題，帶領學生認識新竹「風城」，並透過藝術工作坊創作與學習，深入了解在地文化，激發學生的共鳴。以多元的藝術表現方式及多樣化媒材探索屬於新竹在地特色的歷程，從學生生活周遭的環境與校園環境出發，發現與探索屬於在地的特色與美，我們將邀請各領域的藝術家，帶領學生進行如聲音採集、玻璃鑲嵌藝術創作等工作坊，讓學生在五感的啟發下，感受風的意象。透過聽覺、視覺、觸覺、嗅覺與味覺的體驗，引導學生從過去的感受轉化為創作，感受當下與城市的互動，並藉由創作展現對未來的想像。藉由學習過程培養學生公民參與的責任，讓美感素養透過藝術創作，從自己的生活漸漸在心裡萌芽深根，因環境及隨風而城市變遷的足跡，經過學生課堂上的藝術創作與想法構思，過程中盡情地隨風隨藝術藝起瘋狂。這樣的過程不僅讓學生與城市互動，還能將日常的感知體驗轉化為藝術能量，並在創作中表達自己的情感與思考，共同編織創造出屬於我們與風的藝術故事。

2. Curriculum Development and Dialogue
Regarding the collaborative planning of teacher professional communities, the school will combine the time of the school's art class community with the teaching research association to arrange course discussions and collaborative preparation. Lecturers in relevant professional fields will be invited to introduce and share course development and teaching resources, and to provide suggestions and guidance to teachers implementing the course. Through such collaborative preparation time, the suggestions and ideas of art class teachers on the course will be collected, so as to enhance the breadth and depth of the course, and to make the course design more focused through dialogue and brainstorming.

(III) The Story of Campus Plants and the Five Senses
In the classroom, through teacher guidance and joint discussions, students explore and extend from the text content of the language arts domain, discovering the beauty of the surrounding environment. Students use their senses to find a plant map of the Tsinghua Affiliated Primary School campus, visually perceiving elements of the environment; and through their sense of smell, finding the scents of plants, the campus, and the city. By integrating these senses, students discover the beauty of the school's plants in all four seasons. Students create short essays and poems about the campus plants in class, and finally, they display their works combined with artistic images, completing the campus plant exploration map.

(4) Technological integration and innovation.
In the section combining technology and art, students created three-dimensional sculptures of campus plants to depict their forms and appearances. They then combined these with real-life campus photography and the integration of digital AI and VR technologies to model and incorporate the plant sprites into the campus environment. Using VR technology, students were able to step out of the real world and into the virtual world to explore, adventure, create, and discover, embarking on an adventure of exploring campus plants!

(V) Recognition and inheritance of local characteristics
In the integration into the social sphere, students learn about the new look of local development in the classroom, explore the problems encountered in the local environment, and how to make the local characteristics visible through action and regeneration. Through artistic creation, such as glass art in Hsinchu, the development of local environmental characteristics is integrated and revitalized. This fosters students' concern and action on environmental issues and public affairs, and helps them inherit and protect the memories of local cultural characteristics, becoming little guides for urban promotion.

(VI) Management and Discussion of Sustainable Environment
By integrating the natural world, the course teaches related courses based on the understanding of the local environment, ecology, unique weather conditions, and their impacts. It also explores the concept of sustainability, starting from oneself to find the relationship between humans and nature, and discusses related issues from the perspective of urban environmental changes and appearance. The course explores how to use one's own power to bring a different understanding to urban residents and tourists, and further considers how to express different aspects and new perspectives of the city through art.

(VII) Curriculum Innovation and Promotion
In terms of course promotion and connections, the program will leverage the resources of the Department of Art and Design at National Tsing Hua University. Professor Chang Chuan-Cheng will lead students and teachers in collaborative creation of glass art with Hsinchu characteristics, bringing Tsing Hua University's professional faculty into the campus to encourage students to have more ideas and creativity in their learning and creation. The creative process and results will be publicly shared on campus and in the performing arts hall. The course's creative process will be presented and performed at the graduation art exhibition, ensuring that the results are not just the presentation of finished products, but also the learning process itself, allowing every step of the students' creative journey to be seen. The program will also use art to present and share students' feelings and thoughts about the urban environment and ecology on campus and in their daily lives.

十二年國民基本教育之課程發展本於全人教育的精神，以「自發」、「互動」及「共好」為理念，強調學生是自主的學習者，學校在課堂上設計與規畫應以學生為主體進行，並適時搭起學習的鷹架激發學生的學習動機與熱情，引導學生在學習中開展與自我、與他人、與社會、與自然的各種互動能力，協助學生應用所學及實踐所學、體驗生命歷程的意義、創造自我的價值，願意致力於生活環境、與文化特色的永續發展，共同謀求彼此的互惠與共好。這也是本「植想聽風說故事」跨領域美感教育計畫所追求的目標。