REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Canada ]School[ Bridgewood Public School ] Teacher [ Jim Lamoureux ] Grade ( 4 )JP School [ Hara Elementary School ]Teacher [ Ryoko Kubo ]Member ( 24 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Identify elements of Canadian culture and learn about elements of JapaneseSocial Studies
culture.
Learn about habitats for Canadian animals, and study the effect of humanScience
activity and climate change on those habitats.
Collaborate on the design and painting of mural with Canadian and Japanese
Visual Art
habitats and natural elements.

Hours101218# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Taking action to protect life on land and life in the water.

Message

By working together, we can help to preserve nature and our environment. We can help
to create a better world by doing actions like recycling and reducing the garbage andpollution on land and in the water. We can reduce climate change by burning less fuel.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
My students learned a lot about their own country
including its habitats and nature. They also learned
about Japan and the community of their partner class.
Finally, students learned about helping to create abetter world through our actions to help to preserve
our planet.

Points for further improvement
The next time I am involved in the project, I will try
to stay more focused on posting progress on theforum more often. I think that communication is
the key to the success of the project.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
My students learned to appreciate the differences I enjoyed the relationship between myself andbetween our two cultures. Even seeing the pictures Ryoko Kubo. I thought we communicated well on theof our partner class on a field trip was a great forum and even in our emails.
experience for my students.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Sep.

Oct.

Nov.
Dec.

Dec.
Jan.
Feb.

Feb.
Mar.

What you did
Your students’ attitude/reflectionSubject
We made introduction cards, Students enjoyed making the cards andSocialand sent them with some gifts and seeing the material from Hara Studies,drawings and gifts and students on the forum.
Language,shared on the forum.
Visual Art
We researched the UN
sustainable
development
goals and our own habitats
and nature.
We focused our research on
actions humans can take tohelp our planet. We decided
on a design of the mural.

Students were encouraged about
working together to help make a moresustainable future.
They learned
about some features of Japaneseculture and nature as well.
Students were interested in examining
the similarities in our two cultures, andthe differences in the wildlife of both
our countries.

We finished the design of ourside of the mural and painted
our part when we received it.

My students loved the design of themural. They enjoyed how our twoclasses collaborated.
They reallyloved painting the mural.

We shared our mural in aschool-wide
assembly.
Students wrote reflections
on the project.

Students were engaged in theirreflections and proud of their work.

Science,
SocialStudies

Science,
Visual Art

Visual Art

VisualArt,
Language# 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-cultural
understanding

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaborating withdifferent people
Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

4

My students shared information and questions with our partner classand there was some successful learning about our partner class andwhat their town, school and routines were like.

4The focus on the United Nations sustainable development goals helped
my students think critically about the project. Their research waspositive and the collaboration with our partner class and each otherhelped.

5Students were very engaged in the project. They really liked that thetheme and message of the mural was to hopefully make positivechanges in the world.

5

Sharing the ideas in the class and with our partner class was veryengaging. My students loved the discussion back and forth with ourpartner class on settling on the overall design of the mural.

4My students had some difficulty explaining themselves in theirreflections and research, but they were able to make the messages in
the picture of the mural match their goals very well.