REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Australia ]School[ Hillman Primary School ] Teacher [ Fiona Nutz ] Grade ( 4-5 ) Member ( 8 )JP School [ Anjo-Chubu Elementary School ]Teacher [ Yuki Minesono ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

ScienceWater sources, clean water

5

Geography

Different water sources around the world

4

Sustainability

What we can and are doing locally, what is happening in Japan

10# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Protecting our Earth’s water supplies

MessageLet’s protect the future of the Earth together
How can we keep our waterways healthy? What happens when we don’t? What iseffected?

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained*Increased their understanding of the problems
around the world with a clean water supply.
*Understood what was happening locally and in Japanon water sustainability.
*Learned that they can make a difference inprotecting our local waterways.

Points for further improvement*Our biggest problem was when I had to change
schools before the end of the project. It was
unfortunate that I did not get to see the projectthrough to the end.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers*My students loved learning about what happens in *I love learning about the different regions of Japan
Japan to protect the Earth.
– they are so diverse.
*They loved learning more about Japanese culture *I really appreciate learning about what Japan isand having the chance to interact with the Japanese doing to protect our Earth and sharing what isstudents.
happening in my city.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

Jul.

SHAREAug.
Sep.

Research onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofOct.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

What you did
We completed a PowerPoint
presentation with a photo ofeach student and a little bitofinformation
about
themselves.
Students chose different
goals of the SDG toresearch and create aposter to share theirinformation.
Video conference with ourpartner school to share ourinformation. Asked andanswered questions each of
us raised.
Mural creatingFeb.

-Your students’ attitude/reflection
The students were excited to be able topractice their Japanese language skills.
They were amazed at the similarities in
hobbies with themselves and theJapanese students.
Students were amazed to learn what
they could do to protect our watersupply. They learned what was alreadyhappening in our local community andgot more involved with efforts in ourlocal community.
My students learned so much about
Japanese culture and Japanese efforts
on protecting our water supply aroundthe world.

Subject
LanguageTechnology

Geography
Science

Sustainability
LanguageTechnology

Can’t answer these as I left the school
and the mural was completed with thesupport of an Education Assistant not ateacher.

-As above--# Effect and evaluation gained through the collaborative learning
Evaluation: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected effectCross-culturalunderstanding
Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

5My students had lots of questions every time we viewed a photo fromour partner school. They loved learning more about the culture of thelanguage they are studying in school.

5Active learningand action

4

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

Expressing in words,
in shape-Research, sharing their research and having to answer questions raisedby the research.
My students worked in partners to complete the research and thenshare with their partner school. They had to listen to our partner schoolpresent their research and then come up with questions to ask them.
Students really appreciated the opportunity to present their research
face to face in a video conference to get immediate feedback.
I didn’t get a chance to witness my students create their half of themural. Many of the things we had discussed while I was there didn’t
end up happening.