REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Mexico ]School[ Comunidad Educativa Yaxunah ] Teacher [ Karina Abreu ]JP School [ Kuzumaki Elementary School ]Teacher [ Yuki Hoshino ]Grade ( 5 ) Member ( 20 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

EnglishTo talk about Life on Land.
To investigate about Corn as a product from land that is the base for our food inMexico.
To compare with rice as a product from land that is the base for the food in Japan.
To share the information between them.
To prepare PPT information to share.
To prepare presentations.
To work on different ways that we use corn.
To write the information to present to their partners in Japan.

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SpanishTo investigate about Corn.
To share the information between them.
To prepare PPT information to share.
To design some traditional souvenirs.

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To design the mural.
To draw the first proposal.
To draw on the parcel.
To paint the parcel.

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Arts

# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts
to share with theworld“Life on Land”
1 The importance for taking care of the Earth.
2 The importance of what land provides us.
3 Differences between products, but both being the base of our food.
4 World Cultural Heritage on each town# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
They wanted to be at school to do it together, but We expect to be at school to do it better.
they understood and worked in a collaborative way.
They developed many ideas for the mural.
They learned to work in small groups.

# 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.
We interacted and got interests together very fast.
They discovered that students from both countries We learned about each city and traditions.
have same interests.
They liked to know children like them in another partof the world.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

Jun.Aug.

Sep.
Oct.

What you did
Introduced schools andintroduced ourselves withphotosandPPT
presentations on the forum.
Decided the common
learning theme.
Researched on the internet
and local news.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
They were excited about learning morefrom Japan and their students.

Summarized the research ina PPT.
Discussed the theme in theforum.
Shared the research withthe partners on twovideoconferences withteachers and students.
Communicated the situationin each country about riceand corn and how do we
use them in food.
Thought about theimportance of taking care ofthe Earth.
Discussed in the forum.

They investigate, share with classmates.
They worked in teams to discuss theinformation.
They made decisions and worked in acollaborative way.

Subject

SpanishEnglishSpanishEnglishContent

UNITE
Message ofMonthNov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Dec.
Jan.

Feb.

What you did
We discussed about how towork with kids about how
corn has been involved inour diet, our culture and ourtraditions, we shared ouractivities at the forum, wediscuss about the name of
the mural and how was going
to be done.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
They gave ideas about how they use
corn and identified how is corn harvest
in our city and what they can do to takecare of our land.

Designed a mural anddecided how to divide it
into halves and which partto draw on the forum.
Drawaproposaltocomplement the other half.
Paint the Mural.
Sent the mural back toJapan.

They work together online to give theideas and draw them.
They went to school in small groups topaint.

Reflect the wholecollaborative learning.
Make a concert online withpuppets,
students
andteachers to talk about theimportance of the projectand SDGs with songs.

They organized an online concert toshare their experience about the muraland about working on the Artmile
project, singing songs about healthy life,
respect, healthy food and taking care of
the environment.

Subject

SpanishEnglishArts

Arts

SpanishEnglish# 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

Evaluation

5545

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
On the pictures we shared and the video conferences.
On the way, students discussed the importance of corn in our lives.
Being on line was hard for students, but they did it great.
All of them worked together besides distance.
The mural was great and kids enjoyed the dialogues with their partners

Expressing in words,
in shape

5from Japan.
They enjoyed preparing traditional gifts for them.