Fuxing Elementary School, New Taipei City—Craft Revival in Fuxing's Vast Ocean—Using Crafts to Support Public Welfare

Since 2018, Fuxing Elementary School has focused on the core concept of "Crafts Revitalization in Fuxing," developing various craft categories such as woodworking, dyeing, weaving, metalworking, and lacquerware, and fostering interdisciplinary craft courses through interaction and exchange with various fields. Previously, we focused on the children of Fuxing, but in the 2025 academic year, we planned to step outside of Fuxing, allowing children to start from their own hearts, look at the community, look at Taiwan, and look at the world, combining various fields to develop the "Crafts Revitalization in Fuxing: The Ocean of Life" course. This semester's interdisciplinary aesthetic course, themed "Crafts Revitalization in Fuxing: The Ocean of Life - Coral Reef Hide-and-Seek," combined with courses from the Mandarin reading class on tropical rainforests in the sea, social studies on the ocean's position and Taiwan's development, land use and change, and natural marine biology, with a "Coral Reef Hide-and-Seek" themed book exhibition and interactive games, allowing children to explore the marine issues faced by Taiwan's maritime inhabitants. By integrating art, language reading, nature and life technology, society, and other fields, and incorporating topics such as environment, ocean, multiculturalism, reading literacy, and international education, and using indicators such as SEL, SDGS, and topic integration to connect and develop research with various fields, we hope to inspire and develop a unique interdisciplinary aesthetic curriculum that is special to Fuxing Elementary School.
Next semester, students will choose a charitable organization dedicated to the cause of Taiwan, gaining a deeper understanding of their contributions and philanthropic ideals. Students will design crafts based on the theme of "hide-and-seek with coral reefs," and then auction these creations, donating the proceeds to the charitable organization they are researching. This initiative aims to contribute to charity through crafts, fostering a sense of responsibility, honor, and civic responsibility through the joint participation of students, teachers, and family. Marine conservation issues are often presented through pollution, crises, and data, which can feel distant or abstract to students. Next semester, a charity market will be used as a relatable context, allowing students to understand the relationship between marine life and human life through concrete, participatory role-playing tasks. Through visual interpretation and the charity market, students can move from "seeing the problem" to "being willing to act," transitioning from passively receiving knowledge...
Knowledge is transformed into proactive planning and participation.

The course places special emphasis on the connection between craft creation and public welfare. Students not only create artworks through artistic expression, but also consider how their works convey ideas, communicate with others, and become a medium for supporting conservation efforts. From artwork to market, from introduction to fundraising, children understand that beauty is not merely for display, but can actually become a force for protecting society and the environment.