2013 IIME REPORTCountry [ Russia]
School[ Educational Center #1471 ] Teacher [ Anna Kostikova ] grade (6 )JP School [ Umejima Daiichi elementary School ] Teacher [ Akiko Nagai ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

student number (7 )TimessocialLearning culture of our country and culture of Japan

14

IT

Trying make a video, use on-line forum and e-mail4

Draw a mural, reflection of the whole work

6+3

Fine art# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Fairy Tales show spirits of Japan and Russia

Message

Fairy Tales are the things which have each country. Such things are very important andinteresting for children. They show us the nature of people, traditions, through them we learn
more about our country.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gainedChildren learned many interesting things about Japan,
tried to find the same traditions in local culture. They
read Japanese stories, tried to understand theirmessages. We learned through this project how toappreciate culture and history of our country. Also wetry to explain the peculiarities of Russia to Japanese
students.

Points for further improvement
The work with forum were very hard. But we want tolearn it better for the best cooperation with the partner.
Also we would like to do VC with the partner school.
Now we try to improve our skills in making video in orderto do the work on project mire interesting.

# 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 aroundWe show the mural to whole school and parents. Also I They highly appreciate the project. Some schools weretalked about the project with Japanese language very interested in the project, may be later They alsoteacher in Moscow.
send their application to JAM.
We will describe the work on the project in our school
book for Ministry of Education.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Sep

ResearchOct,
Nov

Composition

Dec

Painting

Jan,
Feb

Appreciation

March

What you did
Using the forum to send ourintroduction,
reading
introductions of our partners,

Learning Japanese traditions,geography, reading Japanesefairytales in Japanese, findingtranslations on Russian
Decided what to draw, makingsketches, reading stories tofind the most interesting
Draw a mural after class work.
Sending it back to Japan withsome gifts from Russia
Talking each other what weshould do next year, planning
our schedule, choosing thetopic. Also we spoke about ourshortage.

Your students attitude/reflection
Positive. The problem with using forum madethis process not so deep. If we could talk withJapanese at a real time it will be moreinteresting. The time difference is also aminus (5 hours). Very hard to find thecooperation time when both partners will beon-line.
Highly motivated, always have interest toJapan
Working with interest on project, talking
friends about their work

Subject

SocialIT

SocialStudyArt
SocialVery interested and hard working
Art
Understood importance of such project
Social# 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

AimResult

Understanding our owncultures

A5Understanding theother’s cultures

A5

B

3C

2Not so high. We have some problems in using the forum, partner’s
school has no opportunity to do VC

B3The students communicate very well with each other, they help eachother in variety of tasks

A4

A

5

Highly motivated, want to learn more about Japan and want to learn
Japanese as much as possible even they know not so much yet

Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning

How your students have reached itSearching internet, reading encyclopedias, talking with parents andteachers, solving puzzles and crosswords about Russia and traditionsof Russia
Searching internet, reading children books, communicating withteacher in order to learn more about Japan and their peculiarities
They used English and Japanese to communicate with partners

Always helpful and very kind, happy to create something together

Expression ability

B

3

Students are happy to work on project with Japanese children. They
always want to show how beautiful Russia is and how many
interesting things we have in our culture.

Appreciation ability

B4

We displayed the mural at school, show the photos of mural to otherJapanese language teachers in another schools

Please submit to jam@artmile.jp . Thank you for your cooperation.