REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ Lithuania ]School[ Klaipėdos Simono Dacho progimnazija ]Teacher [ Saulė Likpetrienė / Vilma Norvaišienė ]Grade ( 5-8 )Members (15)JP school [ Okuno Elementary School ] Teacher [ Hiroshi Kobuke ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Geography
EnglishGeography

Hours

Global warming and its consequences in Lithuania

3

Baltic sea pollution. What can I personally do? Recycling.

3Oceans pollution

3# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Protection of the oceans and all kinds of seas.

MessageProtection of the quality and supply of freshwater sources (17-18)“Bridges of friendship across clean oceans”

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Students learned to think globally but not locally. Science/geographyclassesshouldcontain
They have discovered global environment as well as ecological issues along with the topics.
the ecosystem of the whole world.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
First, they gained instant video communication skills. Build a great relationship with our partners in Japan
Second, our pupils had to get ready for their virtual and things, concerning eco problems through thismeeting with partner school students. Moreover, project. Sharing mutual thoughts and ideas. Learningthey have never been so close to Japan before this from each other. The main important thing- to inspire
project as we had a video conference with the our students for changing towards personal
Ambassador of Lithuania in Japan and in return responsibility for global warming ocean/clean watervisited the Embassy of Japan in Vilnius, Lithuania. As pollution.
a result, they were really excited. So were we.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATEMayJun.

Oct.Dec.

Mural painting

Jan.
Feb.

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Feb.
Mar.

What you did
Had a video meeting andschools’ presentation. A lotof emailing as well.
Working on the topics 17-18.
Collecting ideas with ourstudents.
Discussing on the forum andemailing, sharing ideas withthe partner school about themuralcompositionandnational symbols.
Getting to work, discussing
and consulting each otherJapan-Lithuania. Receiving
the mural. Arranging our visit
to the Embassy of Japan.
Sending a completed mural
to our partners to Japan.

Your students attitude/reflection
Getting interested and involved in theproject. Preparing some material about
Japan. Presented their projects inclasses.
Discussions, films watching analyzing thetopics from Agenda 17-18
Making mural sketches picking up ideas
for it. Participating in video conference,
presenting their ideas to Japanese
students.
Painting, creating the mural. Making craftsouvenirs. Enjoying the Japanese crafts
sent in by our partners.
Visiting the Embassy of Japan.
Discovering tea making and drinking
traditions as well as culture/modern lifeof Japan.
Getting ready the mural to be sent.

Subject
EnglishGeography

Geography

ICT
EnglishArt
Geography

EnglishEnglish# 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 effectEvaluation

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

5

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

544544

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

5

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
Knowing your own culture well you can learn respecting the others. Also,
sharing the information while presenting your countries cultural values
and traditions.
There no boundaries left behind. Live talks, a visit to the embassy ofJapan in Lithuania.
Went smoothly in the internet age.
Involving and motivating. Next time, we would consider another way forthat as Skype may sometimes cause disturbing or interruption.
Maybe more particular task to be accomplished.
Students completely involved
Collaboration went perfectly but due to our time zones we could nothave a possibility to present our live integrated classes e.g. Geography orEnglish.
It was a pleasure to communicate with the teachers from Japan whilesome students were not easy to understand.
The mutual mural is the best result and feedback of this project. One
could never think of nay better idea. So, we are really delighted andproud of our partners work as well as ours. Well done to everyone.