REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Mexico ]School[ Comunidad Educativa Yaxunah ] Teacher [ Karina Abreu ] Grade ( 5 )JP School [ Kamiuchi Elementary School ]Teacher [ Miyuki Shimomura ]Member ( 18 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
To investigate about COVID-19.
To share the information between them.
To prepare PPT information to share.
EnglishTo prepare presentations.
To work on different tryptic to prevent COVID-19.
To write letter to their friends in Japan.
To investigate about COVID-19.
To share the information between them.
SpanishTo prepare PPT information to share.
To design some traditional souvenirs.
To design the mural.
To draw the first proposal.
ArtsTo draw on the parcel.
To paint the parcel.
# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme"Let's Protect! Nature, let's save it for the future! Our Beautiful Hometown.”

1 Contained COVID-19
2 Love Connected by Hearts and Ribbons
3 Flags
4 World Cultural Heritage on each town
Work together to paint a vision of a future that has survived COVID-19.
In that mural we painted beautiful things we want to protect and leave behind in our environment.
MessageUnited thoughts
to share withthe world

Hours723636

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
They wanted to be at school to do it together.
It was hard to get the idea of a mural on line.
They learned to work in small groups.

Points for further improvement
We expect to be at school to do it better.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They learned a lot about the culture, traditions and We learned to work at the distance and it was hard.
activities.
They liked to know children like them in another partof the world.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on thetheme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

Jun.Aug.

Sep.
Oct.

Nov.

What you did

Your students’ attitude/reflection

Introduced
schoolsandintroduced ourselves withphotos and PPT presentations
on the forum.
Decided the common learning
theme.
Researched on the internet
and local news.

They were excited about learning
more from Japan and theirstudents.

Summarized the research in aPPT.
Discussed the theme in theforum.
Shared the research with thepartners on avideoconference withteachers and students.
Communicated the situationin each country aboutcoronavirus and how to deal
with it.
Thought about the issues
connecting with the world
and with the future.
Discussed in the forum.

They investigate, share withclassmates.
They worked in teams to discuss
the information.
They made decisions and worked ina collaborative way.

We discussed about how towork with kids about
strategies to prevent COVID,
we shared our activities atthe Forum, we discuss about
the name of the mural andhow was going to be done.

They gave ideas about how they
have survived Covid 19 at home,
how they felt and what they can doto prevent in a discussion.

Subject

SpanishEnglishSpanishEnglishSpanishEnglishArtsCREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Dec.
Jan.

Designed a mural and decided
how to divide it into halves
and which part to draw onthe forum.
Drawa
proposal
tocomplement the other half.
Paint the Mural.
Sent the mural back to JapanFeb.

Reflect the wholecollaborative learning
Make letters for children inJapan.

They work together on line to givethe ideas and draw them.
They went to school in small groups
to paint.
Arts

They made letters to send to eachchild in Japan’s school to share
their experience about the muraland about knowing them.

English# 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

55455

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
On the pictures we shared and the videoconference.
On the way, students discussed COVID-19 and its prevention.
Being on line was hard for students, but they did it great.
All of them worked together besides distance.
The mural was great.