In the shape of a green kite, Tree Valley Education Center,located in Tree Valley Park, Xinshi Dist., Tainan City, attaches recycling concepts to energy saving, waste reduction, ecology, and sustainability. Moreover, constructing friendly buildings, which meets the double-factor authentication of green building and low
carbon, is a concrete commitment to embodying environmental sustainability.

[Promote social education and root deep]
Since Tree Valley Foundation was founded in 2008, it has been devoting to cultural conservation and focusing on promoting education of “archaeology”. Using daily life as the main idea with concepts of scientific investigation like the time axis and space axis leads students to put prehistoric images together. Also, it offers a fascinating glimpse of ancestors’ life, reflecting contemporary substances and the crisis behind them.

Afterward, Tree Valley Foundation passed environmental education facilities and venues authentication in 2019. It develops three theme-oriented topics, including archaeology, ecology, and agri-food. Through research, speculation, and cultural understanding, we’re trying to find the best balance between human beings and mother nature by seeing in ancestors and creatures’perspective. Hoping that environmental friendly attitudes can be implemented in daily life.

[The one and only simulated archaeological site]
If the time goes back, what would this world be like?“Sidewall” is the vertical plane of an archaeological site. We take 4 walls to record the land of Tainan and to reify ancestors’ life trajectories also environmental changes. In addition, constructing the largest and most realistic test pit in southern Taiwan makes participants do the actual diggings like an archaeologist and go through the process of scientific verification that is overthrown time after time.

[Tree, the protagonist; human being, the sidekick]
Build an environment to “grow with the tree”!
Growing up and learning about the land, cultural environment, and ecological environment, then pass on to the next generation safely. We are looking forward to seeing the smile on children’s faces, and also planting the seed of a friendly environment in their hearts.

The National Science and Technology Museum is a national social education institution aimed at promoting science and technology education. Therefore, the National Science and Technology Museum is dedicated to the research, design, and display of various technological themes, and to introduce important technological development and its influence on everyday lives.

Stone weir is an important cultural heritage at the seashores in Taiwan. Its unique structure can naturally keep schools of fishs inside. Therefore the fisher can easily catch fishes during low tide. Jibei cultural museum exhibits detailed Penghu stone weir culture, including building, usage, unique cultures and activites. Also you can see many art works inspired by stone weir in this museum. Visit here and you will learn more a bout traditional Taiwan culture.

Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts established the Dharma Drum Campus for Environmental and Spiritual Education, which, with Master Sheng Yen’s philosophy of Protecting the Spiritual Environment as its core, aims at promoting the environmental protection and laying a foundation for sustainable development. Its mission is to become an inspirational source for spreading environmentally-friendly knowledge and skills.
Covering an area of about 25 hectares, the campus is located in Jinshan District, New Taipei City. Taking protecting the natural environment as its ideal, the campus design showcases features of environmental resources in four ways—
soil and water conservation; the Calm the Mind Trail; the Satoyama Initiative; and low environmental impact architecture—and incorporates the field’s characteristics to develop a rich and fascinating program for environmental education.
The campus has several trails, creating a campus culture of silent and serene walking. Take a walk on these trails while engaging in the methods of Chan practice, listening to flowing streams and immersing in nature’s music, and you will be able to relax your body and mind, with a purified self. We invite you to come and enjoy this place of perfect natural beauty, and experience for yourself the joy of Chan this environment has to offer

Did you see the moon-base-like spherical building? That is the Environmental Resource Education Exhibition Center which includes the control center of the Taichung Sewage Treatment Plant at CTSP with the concept of an intelligent neural network. It monitors more than 140,000 tons of industrial sewage and its quality on the daily basis through the analysis and early warning of the sewage monitoring station in the park. It can swiftly provide abnormal water quality information of sewage treatment plants, preventive monitoring data of in-plant equipment, and increase early warning response time and timely maintenance information. You can learn about the intelligent management of sewage treatment plants and the process of turning industrial sewage into clean and recyclable discharge water in this facility! There is also the AI Robotics Hub at CTSP within this area, which allows us to see how artificial intelligence being applied in our daily lives. There are also environmental education promotion partners nearby such as TSMC Ecological Park at CTSP, AUO Taichung Plant, and Taichung Metropolitan Park. It is the best spot for an environmental education field trip, awaiting your exploration.

The Chianan Plain is a large area with a mild climate, suitable for agricultural production. Before 1920, there was a lack of irrigation facilities and farmers diverted water from nearby rivers, but there was only 5,000 hectares of irrigated land and the yield was very small.Untill 1930, Wushantou Reservoir and its irrigation and drainage system are completed. The total irrigation area is about 130,000 hectares and a three-year crop rotation irrigation system is implemented.It improved the quality of life of people in the Chianan Plain. Welcome to Wushantou Reservoir to learn about the story of the reservoir.

Different from other water park in Taiwan, Shengou water park draw the water from the Langyang river instead of reservoir. 75％ of this park remains undeveloped to retain underground water; yet the rest area is most artificial wetland to purify the river water. We design many interactive activities with water. Let you learn everything about water in a meaningful and fun way.

The rescue excavation of the Peinan Site led to the construction of National Museum of Prehistory(NMP).

In July 1980, during the construction of today's Taitung Railway Station of South Link Line (formerly Peinan Railway Station of East Link Line) and a marshalling yard, rich prehistoric remains of Peinan Site were discovered. A number of slate coffins and exquisite grave goods in the coffins were dug out and exposed on the ground, which attracted great public interest and grave robbery.

Media exposure of the robbery urged the government to halt the construction. The construction was suspended after Taitung County Government reported the issue to the authorities concerned. Furthermore, the rescue excavation of the site was delegated to Professor Wen-hsun Sung of Department of Anthropology of National Taiwan University with students of the department, who then formed the Peinan Culture Archaeology Team.

In the next decade, more than ten rescue excavations were carried out during summer and winter vacations by the team led by Professor Sung and Professor Chao-mei Lien. The Peinan Site was recorded as the biggest site on the history of Taiwanese archaeology, where the range of excavation was no less than 10,000 square meters, and more than 2,000 burials and tens of thousands of potteries and stone tools were discovered. The site is academically considered representative of the upper and later Neolithic period, and the biggest site of slate coffins and burial remains around the Pacific Rim and across Southeastern Asia.

Professor Sung suggested that if we were to preserve the Peinan Site, an outdoor museum of the site should be built nearby. This was the first proposal for building a museum based on the Peinan Site. After considerable efforts, NMP Planning Bureau was finally founded on February 1, 1990. NMP started trial operation on July 10, 2001, and was officially opened on August 17, 2002. Since then, NMP has become the foundation of research and preservation of Taiwanese prehistoric sites and cultures.