2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ China ]School [Jinhua Binhong Primary School ] Teacher [ Annie(Ye Yunqian) ] Grade ( 4 ) Member ( 40 )JP school [ Komaruyama Elementary School ] Teacher [ Kanae Yashima ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
CultureHours

China and Japan Culture

6

IT

Use forum

3

Art

Appreciation and reflection of the whole work

3

# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeLocal culture of China and JapanMessage

We get to know culture of each country. Build up friendship with each other.

United thoughts toshare with the world# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
The students get to know more and more about
When we started to paint the mural, we were aJapanese culture. They spent lots of time to do the little worried to have any mistake on it. But finallyresearch. At the same time, they knew more about we did a good job.
our own Chinese culture and its unique.
We together shared about the people, the season,
the festivals and etc.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students make friends abroad, they broaden eyes
During the project, the teacher have a brand new
to see the beautiful world and learn to communicate teaching experience. It’s different from thewith each other.
experience in the classroom. The teacher guides thestudents to do the search about the culture bythemselves.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth
MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United message/AugSep

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Did self-introduction to the Students were really excited to do thepartner.
self-introduction.
Students were interested to find out theinformation about the culture. They werehappy to see the Japanese students onthe forum.

Nov

Students fundouttheinformation about the localculture.
Theysharedthoughts with the Japanesestudents
Students drew the sketch ofthe mural.

Dec

They painted our part of themural.

The students were happily involved inthe project.

We exhibited the painting inthe school. Wetookaphoto with all the students
befor sending the mural toJapan.

Students were very proud to see themural shown in the school. They had thesense of achievement.

Oct

Students discussed the designgroups .They enjoyed team work.

Subjectin

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Jan

EnglishEnglishArt andCraft

Art andCraft
Art andCraft

Reportcardagenda# 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 own
culturesA5Understanding theother’s cultures

A4A

5

They did the communication well and they were reallyenthusiastic.

B3

They didn’t know how to do the video conference because
there’s no equipment in our school.

A5A

5A

4

A

4

Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning
Expression ability
in words, in pictures

Appreciation ability
Appreciate the mural and thewhole collaborative learning

A

4How your students have reached it
The students did the research on the internet and other sourcesThe students did the research on the internet.

They build up good friendship through self-introduction.
They enjoyed team work.
They were active during the process of the project.
They are getting better to communicate with others.
They did a great job to exhibit the mural in the school andappreciated what they’ve learned during the project.