The Environmental Protection Foundation of the Housewives' Union has a "Green Picture Book" parent-child reading group to provide parents with time to tell the story of "Green Picture Book". Under the attack of food safety storm, there has been an activity and training course of green picture books every two days on average in the past four years, which shows parents' enthusiasm for food education.
The housewives' union, which is concerned about the environment and diet, has been talking to adults for more than 20 years. From 20 1 1 year, the focus of the dialogue began to shift to children, and environmental education for children began through the media of "green picture books". In the children's part, food education picture books were taken as the beginning of environmental education.
Children like to listen to stories, and telling stories is the easiest way to plant environmentally friendly seedlings in children's hearts. Therefore, the housewives' union began to develop "green picture books" teaching plans for children. The definition of "green picture book" refers to a picture book story book with the theme of green ideas and knowledge such as environmental protection, ecological conservation, man and nature, and preschool children subtly accept green ideas and practices by listening to stories.
The concept of "green picture book" of housewives' alliance includes food education, water resources, energy and ecology. Zhang Mingchun, deputy director of Taichung Branch Library, thinks that food education picture books are most suitable for children to read. At this stage, food education emphasizes "eating food that can see its original form, not processed food, such as ham and sausage …" But it is not easy for children to understand "real food", so food education picture books are produced.
Zhang Mingchun pointed out that children have the best understanding of eating, and they always know the world with their mouths. If food education in early childhood can make children willing to eat more natural, prototype and original food and less touch food additives, "it will be so powerful that even children who talk too much about environmental protection can't absorb it," she said.