REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Croatia ]School[ PSJG Franjo Bučar ] Teacher [ Petra Zenić ] Grade ( 1- 2 ) Member ( 26 )JP School [ Osaka Seikei Private Girl School ]Teacher [ Haruka Kawamoto ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishIntroduction, Discussion, Research,Presentations, Taking photos

Video

Making,

Hours
Sharing

Ideas,

20

Geography

Presentations on Japan, Learning new facts, Deepening the knowledge onculture

4Arts

Introduction, Creating and sketching the mural, creating mural, drawing,
painting the mural, Taking pictures, Discussing the work. Appreciating

10# Theme and Message of the muralLife on Land, Life under water, Sustainable development, Climate changes and Global
Themewarming
The unity of all people can save the planet. There is still time!
Message
United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gainedStudents learned about Japan, Japan’s culture andgeography, Japan’s Tradition and cousine. They also
learned some Japanese words.
Students learned about UN’s SDGs.
Students made new friends in Japan.
Students started a discussion on Environmental
issues, started to clean up their own school.
Students are more aware of the endangered species
and have a better understanding of the preservation.

Points for further improvement
Learning more about particular interests regarding
SDGs, deepen the learning.
Learn more about Japan and culture.
Stay in touch with Japanese students after theProject.
Start doing projects in our community.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Learnedalotabout the project making.
Students made friends with Japanese students.
Discoverednewways of teaching.
They become more interested in Japan and theUnderstood the students point of view and think weculture. They learned new words.
should make some changes in teaching and in
They want more information on Japan.
Project making. We are now in the project for the
They think we should do more for our environment. 4thtime and now we can tell that we are fully aware
They learned about endangered species and ways to of the teaching process.
The teachers collaborated nicely and smoothly andpreserve the environment.
enjoyed the project.
They found out about the new technologies.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofJul.
Sep.

Oct.

Nov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection

Dec.
Jun.

Feb.

What you did
Meet Japanese students
Introduced the school andthe students
Choose SDSs and made a
research
Deepen the collaborative
learning and made a bigger
research on the theme
Watched videos and learned
about Japan
United our thoughts andmade a message to convey
to the world
Discussed about the mural
Japanese students madetheir part of the mural andsend it to us.
We made our half andpainted itWe displayed the work andtook photos.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Were very excited, wrote about
themselves and made a PPT
presentations and photos

Subject
EnglishGeography

History

Students found out new facts, changed
theirwayofthinking,madepresentations
We made Zoom meetings

Geography

Students discussed and made manyinquiries on the Forum with Japanesestudents.

EnglishArts

Students discussed and agreed on themural drawing.
They collaborated and exchanged ideas
on how to paint. Worked together.
Students made reports and discussed
their work

EnglishArts
EnglishArt# 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)

Evaluation

4
4

Active learningand action

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,
in shape

5

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
Learned about our environmental problems, Learned about Japan anddifferences between Croatia
We discussed the SDG’s and explained the effects on environmentWe improved our thinking and learned about the objectives.
We learned actively, by watching videos, reading articles, taking lectures
and talking and discussing our ideas together and with Japanese school
We collaborated together and with Japanese students. We come fromdifferent cultural backgrounds but managed to overcome them andenjoy our work together
We expressed our thoughts with posters, words, presentations andfinally in drawing and painting. Also we took photos and expressed ourview