A walk around a school campus can be like entering a children’s castle. Jiuguan Elementary School in Changhua County’s Pusin Township has been promoting ecological education that includes growing mushrooms. The outside wall of a classroom that had lain unused for a long time has been decorated with a colorful mural, while the classroom has been dubbed the “mushroom kitchen,” combining children’s wonderment with educational content.
A few months ago Chu Chih-hua, the school’s principal, remodeled the school’s disused butterfly restoration center into a mushroom-raising ecological garden that he calls the “mushroom kitchen.” Teachers guide the students as they plant mushrooms and watch them grow and change. The classroom also has a display of mushrooms cultivated by the students, making it a good place for ecological education.
The outside wall of the “mushroom kitchen” has been decorated with colorful images, including various kinds of mushroom and fluttering butterflies, as well as fairies dressed in Taiwanese folk opera costumes.
Photo: Chang Tsung-chiu, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者張聰秋
Sixth-grade student Liu Yu-hsin says that the “mushroom kitchen” has livened up the school campus. Wu Ming-yen, also in the sixth grade, says that since teachers have moved their life science classes over to the “mushroom kitchen” the lessons have been very lively, with plenty of variety, and students feel more motivated to learn.
(Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)
逛小學也能像是走進童話城堡！彰化縣埔心鄉舊館國小推動栽培蘑菇生態教學，把一間閒置已久的教室外牆塗滿彩繪改造成「蘑法廚房」教室，充滿童趣和教育性。
校長朱治華在數個月前，把學校荒廢的蝴蝶園復育中心，重新改造成栽培蘑菇的生態園區「蘑法廚房」，老師指導小朋友們培育蘑菇、觀察蘑菇成長變化，還陳列小朋友所培育的蘑菇，成為生態教學的場域。
「蘑法廚房」外牆則繪上繽紛圖樣，上頭有不同種類的蘑菇和蝴蝶翩翩飛舞，還有穿上歌仔戲服的小仙女。
六年級學童劉宇芯說，「蘑法廚房」讓校園亮了起來；六年級的吳明燕說，老師上自然課時，學習場地搬到「蘑法廚房」，活潑有變化，上課更有勁。
(自由時報記者張聰秋)
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