仙洞國小位在基隆港西岸一隅，隔著貨櫃碼頭，與海為鄰，在基隆港尚未興建時，仙洞國小附近是一個純樸的小漁村，居民捕魚為業，學校前面是絕美的白沙海域，很多老人家，還記得小時候，放學就跳到海裡，奮勇游到三沙灣，在大海裡穿梭的過去；對於今日的學生，除了每天傳來的船鳴，看到的只有林立的起重機，和匆匆忙忙的貨櫃車，走在馬路上，大人千叮嚀萬交代「要注意貨櫃車」。 仙洞的學生對於「海洋」和「貨櫃」，多的是恐懼、害怕，隔著貨櫃碼頭，不知道大海在哪裡？貨櫃做什麼用？隨著近日，本市以「海洋教育」為各校校本課程，期望莘莘學子由認識地方開始，透過海洋教育的推動，讓基隆的孩子成為海洋公民。 本校師生面對每日出出入入的貨櫃，決心深入研究，一窺究竟，全校師生總動員，以「貨櫃」為教學的架構，建構本校的「海洋課程」，一年級以「妙妙盒」為主題，認識並賦予貨櫃新的生命；二年級老師以童趣的方式，帶著孩子發現貨櫃車和貨櫃船行進時的各種方式和問題，他們定了有趣的主題「大肚魚趴趴走」；三年級素枝老師以「貨櫃好幫手」為主題，訪問相關的工作人員，了解其工作性質，深入工作的現場關懷他們；四年級文潔老師和學生一起調查社區居民對於與貨櫃為伍的看法，以「我家門前有貨櫃」為題；五年級暵聲老師以「貨櫃新世紀」為題，與孩子們一起探索我們居住的臺灣，重要的貨櫃碼頭和貨櫃進出關口的程序等；六年級兩位組長瑞利老師和建楹老師共同以「貨櫃追追追」為題，展開對世界各國貨櫃碼頭深入調查研究。 本文將呈現此次仙洞國小師生與「貨櫃起舞」課程發展以及學生重新認識自己，認識與身邊有關的事物，能了解，欣賞，進而創新的動態歷程。

Siandong Elementary School is located at the west part of Keelung Harbor. It is by the sea with only a container terminal standing in between. Before Keelung harbor was built, Siandong was a simple little fishing village. People there lived their lives by fishing. In front of the Siandong school is the most beautiful white sand area. Many elder residents today still remeber how they jumped into the sea and bravely swam across the San-Sah Bay after school. On the contrast, for students today, what they see are only cranes parking everywhere and container trucks coming and going busily. What they hear is only the horning sound of ships. When they walk on the roads, adults have to repeatedly remind them: "Watch the container trucks." The students at Siandong have only fear and scare to the ocean and containers. Blocked by the container terminal, they don't know where the ocean is or what the containers are for. Until recently, Keelung city designated education about ocean as its School-based Curriculum for every school, in the hope that our students would begin from knowing the place they live, and then further bringing up their feelings of love to their hometown. Moreover, these students will someday transform their caring of hometown to some kind of power, and feedback to the place nurturing their growing. In this way, our city will continuously develop, through promoting the education about ocean, the kids in Keelung will become oceanic citizens. Facing the coming and going containers every day, the teachers and students at Siandong decided to carry out a deep research on this special spot. All the teachers and students got works to do. They developed curriculum subjects about containers, including: "Magic Box" trying to know the containers from a new point of view; "Big Fish BellyWalking Around" trying to observe the movements of containers; "Good Helpers of the Containers" trying to understand the life of those container related workers; "There Are Containers In Front of My House." trying to investigate how the community citizens view their life of being together with the containers all the time; "A New Era of Containers" trying to survey the important container terminals in Taiwan and procedures of customs declaration; "Chasing Containers All Over the World" trying to expand their concern to the worldwide container terminals. In this curriculum plan, containers were chosen as a backbone. As our size and number of teachers are small, we had advantages for curriculum developing. We had all people involved, decisions were made bottom up, discusses were going on freely. All people were the members of school curriculum development committee. This article is trying to describe a dynamic pathway of developing our "Dancing with Containers" curriculum. Hoping that this curriculum will help our students get to know themselves in a different viewpoint, get to know those things around them, and help them understand, appreciate and have abilities to create.