Jiali Junior High School, Tainan City—Flowers Reveal Me: Emotions Take Shape, Culture Feels Sense

This course, "Flowers Reveal Myself: Emotions in Form, Culture in Feeling," is based on the concept that "aesthetics is life, technology is expression." Centered on "interdisciplinary aesthetic education," it combines Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), breaking down disciplinary boundaries to organically integrate visual arts, music, life technology, English, and local culture. Extending from last year's interdisciplinary aesthetic curriculum on the history of the Jiali Jintang Temple and the unique characteristics of its paper-cutting art, the course begins with an understanding of local culture. Through English-language guided tours and field trips, students learn about the historical context and paper-cutting techniques of the Jiali Jintang Temple. Following cultural learning, an art creation activity using "flowers" as a metaphor is arranged to guide students in self-awareness and emotional transformation.

• Interdisciplinary Aesthetics: Contemporary Translation of Local Culture A Dialogue Between Local and International: Starting with the "cut-and-paste technique" of the Jin Tang Temple in Jiali, the course guides students to understand how traditional artisans reassemble broken porcelain shards into art. It further integrates Western modern art (Georgia O'Keeffe's microcosm and Kandinsky's abstraction) to teach students the aesthetic thinking of "deconstruction and reconstruction." Innovative Transformation of Form: Using modern media (colorful leather, LED party lights) to reinterpret the traditional craft, the flat cut-and-paste technique is transformed into a three-dimensional sound and light installation, practicing the aesthetic spirit of "the more local, the more international."

II. SEL Social-Emotional Learning: Visualizing Inner Landscapes. Addressing the self-identity needs of adolescents, this course uses "flowers" as a metaphor for the self, guiding students through the psychological process of "awareness → transformation → expression." Awareness: Through finding "birthday flowers" and observing Georgia O'Keeffe's microscopic gaze, students practice focusing on the present moment and becoming aware of their own characteristics. Transformation: Through exercises in hot and cold abstract art, students are guided to transform intangible emotions (anxiety, passion, calmness) into tangible lines and geometry, achieving emotional processing and release. Resonance: Through AI music creation and voice-controlled lighting, inner voices are heard and seen, strengthening self-worth and a sense of accomplishment.

III. SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals): Cultural Action and Quality Education respond to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, transforming classroom learning into social practice. SDG11 Sustainable Towns and Communities: Through field trips and English-language guided tour writing, students not only become consumers of culture but also guardians and disseminators of culture, actively introducing their hometown's paper-cutting culture to the world. SDG4 Quality Education: Integrating STEAM and bilingual teaching, providing students with diverse, inclusive, and in-depth learning experiences, bridging the gap between technical and artistic learning.

IV. Science and Humanities: The Narrative Power of Integrating the Real and the Virtual. Technology is not a cold, impersonal tool, but a warm medium of expression. AI as a Creative Partner: Utilizing AI to lower the threshold of music creation, allowing students to focus on the "definition of emotion" rather than the "limitations of music theory." Light and Shadow as Emotional Carriers: Voice-controlled circuits in everyday technology transform the "physical amplitude" of sound into the "emotional rhythm" of light and shadow, allowing students to experience how technology serves the expression of humanity.

This course aims to help students not only learn the principles of electrical circuits, create music using AI, and develop creative works using the concept of cut and paste, but also rediscover themselves (SEL) and see their hometown (SDGs) in the process of completing a "breathing, singing life flower box".