REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Nepal ]School [ Mount View E B School ] Teacher [ Ranjeela Rajthala ] Grade ( 4-6 ) Member ( 18 )JP School [ Shoto Junior High School ]Teacher [ Makoto Ishi ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Art

Hours

Identify the colours, Mix and apply different colours.

N/A

Letter writing, Report writing.

N/A

Environment
Science

Climate and physical environmental study of both countries.

N/A

Mathematics

Geometrical shapes

N/A

Social Studies

Culture, economics and lifestyle of people in two cities.

N/A

English# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

How to improve our society - POVERTY, GENDER , FOOD WASTE(SDGs TARGET 1, 5, 12)
We found two cities completely different from each other. One (Nepali city) is rich inculture and traditions whereas other one (Japanese city) is very developed and full offacilities.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Due to the situation, we were behind the schedule, yetstudents of both schools were very excited andenthusiastic for the art.

-Points for further improvement
Start the activities earliest possible
Prepare Plan B for emergency situations.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They have learned a lot about two cities comparing The teachers seemed to have extra and depth
the cities. They also learned to appreciate the beauty knowledge about Shibuya city. They got to meet andof city as they are.
collaborate with partner school which helped a lot tobroaden their thinking dimension.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofJun.
Jul.

Aug.Oct.

Feb.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Dec.Feb.

What you did
Your students’ attitude/reflection
We sent our introduction and Students were very happy and glad toreceived introduction from be introduced with new Japanese
partner school.
friends.

Subject

We shared our concept ontheme and our partner
school displayed our drawing
at their school.

Students shared their thoughts during
the time through picture. We also
received from partner school reflecting
students sharing.

We made a video call andstudents
sharedtheirquestions and exchanged
ideas.

Students were pleased to see theirfriends in video and also amazed bylearning some of Japanese terms.

English,SocialStudies,
Science,Art,English,
SocialStudies,
Science,Art

Partner school notified us
about starting the mural andthen sent the half mural tous. We received the half
painted mural and completed
it and sent it back by Feb.
We sent back the painting.

Students were excited and theircreativity were bursting out whileworking on the painting.

Feb.
Mar.

We received mail from partner school
which included the picture of their
happy faces.

English,ArtArt,English,ScienceEnglish# 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

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

3We did not get much interaction time because of the condition, however
our partner school are able to make a good interaction with us becauseof which we got to have cross-cultural understanding

4

We found the visible growth in our child regarding critical thinking andrespecting each other. They were able to portray two different cities
through their art.

4

Although the project was running behind schedule, students tried theirbest to make it wonderful. They seemed very enthusiastic andmotivated for each and every task of the project.

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

As this is a collaborative project, we got the opportunity to have thecollaboration with different people.

Expressing in words,
in shape4

Our students were able to portray their thoughts through shapes intheir drawing, they also have written t