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The main purpose of this research is to understand different teaching methods and curriculums for different homeland education in various counties. Based on this research, constructive suggestions can be made, and will provide a reference for designing homeland curriculums in the future. In order to achieve this goal, this research takes I-Lan, and Hua-Lien as research subjects. The research first starts with a more in-depth understanding of related researching materials, such as, the Basic Concept of Homeland Education, Taiwan Homeland Education Curriculums, the Contents of Homeland Curriculum Materials, and the Composing of Homeland Curriculum Materials. Second, a content analysis is done on the middle grade elementary homeland curriculums of both I-Lan and Hua-Lien counties so that one can better understand the presentations of these two cities'''' curriculum materials which include subjects, characteristic, content type, and composition of content. As for the interview part, editors from different towns of the two counties were chosen to interview. The main focus of the interview was to understand how contents of the curriculums were designed and composed, and what difficulties these editors came across during the process of composing the materials. After summarizing the research goal, and methods, the following conclusions were drawn: 1.In both I-Lan and Hua-Lien, geography has the highest percentage in terms of the main subject of the contents, and colloquial or homeland dialog has the lowest percentage. 2.In terms of special subjects, educational topic has the highest percentage, and diversified topic has the lowest percentage. 3.In terms of content type, descriptive, illustrative, and questioning form of content has the highest percentage. 4.In terms of content composition, detailed recording of an event has the highest percentage, and journal has the lowest percentage. 5.In I-Lan and Hua-Lien, there are several ways of presenting teaching contents, and they are: detailed recording of an event, questions for creative thinking, journal, detailed recording with creative thinking questions, and creative thinking questions with journals. 6.Difficulties they came across when composing the teaching materials are: difficulties in collecting information and composing contents, lack of graphic professionals, editors lacking professionals knowledge, and finally lack of communications between editing members. 7.Experiences from some of the editors in I-Lan concludes the followings: (1)There are growth in editors'''' composition experiences. (2)There is a trend toward more illustration-oriented content. (3)More educational content will be created based on past recorded history, which will allow children to learn from our history. 8.Experiences from some of the editors in Hua-Lien concludes the followings: (1)Editors should see from children''''s point of view, and provide more suitable materials. (2)More people should participate in content design, and editing. (3)Because there are factors like time, environment, and parents being unable to cooperate with schools, teachers conduct homelands teaching activities mainly in classrooms. As a result, it''''s most suitable for teachers to present material in data form. Finally, based on this research, suggestions on content for homeland teaching curriculums, composition of homeland teaching materials, future research, and future trend in homeland education will be made.
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