Kinmen County, located in an offshore island, is short of resources for environmental protection education. To rectify the situation, the Environmental Protection Bureau of the county has listed at the top of its administration agenda cultivating environmental protection educators, making use of environmental protection teaching materials and organizing environmental protection education activities. In 2015, the Bureau entrusted the National Central University to conduct the Kinmen County’s Program of Local Curriculums for Environmental Protection Education ＆ Entrusted Coaching Service for Environmental Protection Educator Accreditation for purpose of practicing environmental protection education. On the basis of the County’s plentiful resources in humanity, geography, culture and ecology available for environmental protection education, totally eight localized curriculums for environmental protection education, either for middle schools or elementary schools, have been formulated for purpose of this Program. In these curriculums, Minnan culture, overseas-Chinese hometown culture, battlefield culture, low-carbon culture and ecological preservation are adopted as entry points, and specific teaching objectives, curriculum implementation program and the establishment of learning evaluation mechanism are tailored for various students. Besides, such characterized curriculums have also been systematically illustrated into picture books that promote environmental protection ideas by means of lucid pictures and let environmental protection education root in elementary schools. Concerning the cultivation of environmental protection educators, a training course have been concluded one after the other for purpose of this Program. Totally 56 trainees have fulfilled their training (among them, 6 participated in the seminar, and 50 took the course for 126 hours in total), and 43 of them become qualified for accreditation. By November 30, 31 trainees in total have obtained the accreditation for environmental protection educator. This year witnesses the number of trainees qualified for accreditation more than twice the total of eligible trainees over the past four years in the Kinmen region, indicating very favorable effectiveness brought by the Program.

Environmental Education, Kinmen, Picture Books