2013 IIME REPORTCountry [ Taiwan]
School[ Wen Ya E.S. ] Teacher [ Ruth Hou ] grade ( 5 )JP School [ Nishi E.S.
] Teacher [ Yuko Inagaki ]student number ( 30 )# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Social Studies
ComputerArt
GeneralTimes

Investigating the stories of heroes in the cpmmunity and country

8Surfing on the Internet to find the relevant information

3

Making draft, skills of mixing the paints to creat new colors

10Appreciation and discussion of the complete work

2

# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeHeroes in the community and country

Message

Heroes are important people at their time. They must have done something special so thatthey deserved the worship from the younger generation. By reading the stories of heroes,
we witness the best examples of mankind. By following their great behaviors, we hope wewill be as good as they are.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
My students realize the stories of heroes. They foundthe models they can follow. Everyone is his own hero
if he insists on doing the things right and doing theright things at the same time. Reading the stories ofheroes, students were motivated to think what kind ofpeople they want to be in the future.

Points for further improvement
Reading the stories of heroes in winter vacation
hinders the group communication. We had a great timesharing hero’s stories with the classmates. If we had
more time, we would like to interview the heroes ortheir family and report the interview to our partners inJapan.

# Have you made your activity open in your school or in your local area? How was their reaction or reputation?

PR you did inside/out of your school
Reaction/reputation from aroundthWe did not have enough time to share the mural with Our 4graders appreciated the great mural we haveour community. We plan to make an oral presentation completed. They hope they can be 5th graders soon soon Children’s Day, April 4. We just had enough time that they join Artmile project as soon as possible.
to run the class discussion before we sent it back toJapan.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

ResearchComposition

Painting

Appreciation

September,October

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Subject
We wrote the greeting All the students have a clear view ofletters to Nishi E.S. and what Nishi ES is like. They want to visit
took a look at the photos Nishi as soon as they can.
Internaitonal
we took at Nishi when weCulture
visited them in September
Studies2012.

We read the books andsurfed on the Internet tofind out more information
November,about the heroes inDecember
Chinese society.

The students are so amazed that there
are so many heroes in Chinese history.
We need to follow them and be great inour lives.

The class chose the best
three artists to make adraft for the partner
school to choose. We, thenhad a clear idea of what todraw on the mural.

It is good to have a group leader toorganize all the painting details.
Students enjoyed the process ofmaking drafts and painting on themural.

We had little experience ofcolor painting at school.
We painted carefully sothat we did not use up thepaint that we cannot find
one here.

In order to involve as many students as
possible, we set up a schedule towelcome more classmates to join thepainting work. All of them arrived ontime and went home late. They were sointerested in painting the mural.

We had very little time totalk about the mural indetail because we werelate for three days. We
took a photo first and weplan to ask the local art
studio to make a copy for
us. We will share thecontent of the mural withall the school as theChildren’s Day gift.

It was in such a hurry that we could not
keep the mural in Taiwan for a longertime. Chinese New Year usually falls inJanuary so we had less time to work onthe project. We needed to hurry up sothat the Japanese partners could
receive it before they finish the schoolyear.

October
toJanuary

January
February

February

Socialstudies,
Computerart

art

general# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Aim: Rank A to C in order you put emphasis on (A: very much/ B: much / C: not so much)
Result: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected Effect

Aim

ResultUnderstanding our owncultures

A5How your students have reached it
We read books and surf on the Internet to find out the stories ofheroes in Chinese history.

Understanding theother’s cultures

B

4

We read the Artmile Forum and knew the stories of Japanese
heroes who were chosen by our Japanese partner school.

A

4

We formed in groups of three and decided which hero we wanted
to recommend to our classmates and partners on the mural.

B

3

We had a Skype talk with our partner school. We also visitedimportant websites to gain more information about the theme.

Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills

We had a lot of time discussing the ideas with our groups
Creating friendshipmembers. We became good friends with our Japanese friends
B4in the class/with partners
because we had many experience of visiting our partner school
before.
All the partners in the class and partner school were open-minded
Collaboration
A
5
enough to accept different opinions. We talked many times and wein the class/with partners
did peacefully reach a final conclusion.
Students were highly-motivated when they worked on the project.
Attitude in learning
A
4
They made their own PPT to share the stories of heroes with theirfriends.
Students are fluent communicators in Chinese but their English isExpression ability
B4
not good enough to communicate fluently. However, this is a goodchance to motivate them to study more English.
It is a harder task to paint a real person on the mural. Students
have tried their best although they asked the art teacher for help
Appreciation ability
B4
at the end. However, all of them had positive feedback toward theproject. They believe that their skills of drafting, coloring andorganizing the mural are much better after the training this time.
Please submit to jam@artmile.jp . Thank you for your cooperation.