2018 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Canada ]School[ Bridgewood Public School ] Teacher [Jim Lamoureux ]JP school [ Nakai Elementary School ] Teacher [ Kosuke Ibaragi ]Grade ( 4 )Member ( 26 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Identify elements of Canadian culture and compare with elements of JapaneseSocial Studies
cultureCreate introduction cards and create research reports and videos on
Language/Media
Canadian culture and history of industry in our city.
Collaborate on the design and painting of mural with Canadian and Japanese
Visual Art
cultural elements

Hours14915# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Studying the history, industry and culture of our towns.

MessageBy understanding similarities and differences in our cultures, we have a better ability towork together.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained

Points for further improvement

Students explored their own culture and learned about theI love this project and continue to feel that it is the best

history of industry in our own town. They also learned about

global collaborative learning project that I have discovered.

the daily life, culture and local industries of our JapaneseI think that the project works well as it is.

partners.

For them, the cross-cultural learning was very

positive. They discovered ways that they are similar and waysthat they are different from our partners.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
My students learned a lot about their partners. I I feel that both Kosuke and I worked well together.
think that they have a new appreciation of the I was a little slow responding on the forum
similarities and differences between our two sometimes and I always appreciate the pleasantcultures.
reminders from our partners and the Japan Artmile
office.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth
MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE

Sept

Research onthe theme

Oct

UNITE

Nov
Dec

United message/

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Dec
JanFebFeb

What you did
We made introduction cards,
introduction videos andshared on the forum.
We researched Canadianculture, food and landmarks.

Your students attitude/reflection
Students enjoyed making the cards andseeing the introductions from Nakai
students.
Students
developedabetter
understanding of some of our Canadian
identity and an understanding ofJapanese culture.
We focused our research on Students were interested in finding out
our local city and its history about differences in our cities and wereof industry. We decided on
involved in the design.
a design of the mural.
We finished the design of ourside of the mural and painted
our part when we received it.
We shared our mural in ourschool at an assembly andwe wrote reflections on themural.

Students enjoyed the painting of themural.
They enjoyed following thetechnique of pointillism started by ourJapanese partners.
Students were mostly engaged in theactivity, but I did find that some students
didn’t remember all the steps andlearning through the project.

Subject
English,SocialStudiesEnglish,Socialstudies
SocialStudies,
ArtArtEnglish# 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

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

4

We shared videos and pictures as well as questions about each other. Ithink my students had a reasonable understanding.

5

My students achieved some good research skills with their work on thehistory of industry in our own town.

4

Students created introduction videos and were able to share andappreciate our partners fairly well.

4

Students worked on some cultural reflections, but their understanding
reasonable.

5

Students enjoyed the active and effective nature of the project. They
enjoyed solving problems during the painting process.

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)

4

I found that the collaboration was very good with our partner class and in
our own class. My students worked in pairs or small groups on eachsection of the mural or topic.
Some of my students were very successful in their expression. Some
had difficulty sharing their ideas

4

Students developed some skills to reflect on a large project with writing
assignments and our presentation to the school.

5Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)Students were successful in studying and reflecting on Canadian culture.