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

Investigating the important plants, fruits, vegetables and farming in Taiwan

5Surfing 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
Theme

Message

Fruits and Vegetables in Taiwan and Japan
Food is important to everyone in the world. We would like to make a research to find out
what fruits and vegetables grow in Taiwan and Japan. By reading the differences, we know
how important it is to cooperate with the world. We cannot live alone.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
My students realize the importance of local fruits and Reading for food informaiton in winter vacation
vegetables. They find the food in our own country is hinders the group communication. We had a great time
the best and so they love our food better than before. sharing what we have found with the classmates. If we
had more time, we would like to cook the food andshow it to our friends.

# 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
We did not have enough time to share the mural withour community. We plan to make an oral presentation
on Children’s Day, April 4. We just had enough timeto run the class discussion before we sent it back toJapan.

Reaction/reputation from aroundOur 6
graders appreciated that we had the second
time to paint the mural again. They believe if they
could be given the second chance to paint the mural,they will do as well as we did this time.
th# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Research

Composition

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 local fruits andDecember vegetables.

The students are so amazed that there
are so many good food to try in Taiwan.
We need to cherish the good fortune
we have had. Also, we are interested inknow what food Japanese people eat
because they school lunch lookeddelicious.

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
made 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 in
January 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 school
year.

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 own
cultures

A5

How your students have reached it
We read books and surf on the Internet to find out the important
fruits and vegetables in my country.

Understanding theother’s cultures

B

4

We read the Artmile Forum and knew the stories of our partnerschool.

A4

We formed in groups of three and decided which food 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
B4
in 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 food with theirfriends.
They are fluent in communicating in Chinese but their English isExpression ability
B4
not good enough to communicate fluently. However, this is a goodchance to motivate them to study English harder.
With clearer images of food in minds, students did a wonderful jobs
Appreciation abilityB
4of painting. So, they had positive feedback toward the skills ofdrafting, coloring and organizing different objects on the mural.
Please submit to jam@artmile.jp . Thank you for your cooperation.