REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2023
Country/Region [ Mexico ]School[ Comunidad Educativa Yaxuna ] Teacher [ Karina Abreu ] Grade ( 5 ) Member ( 15 )JP School [ Une Elementary School ]Teacher [ Yuya Maeda ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson
To talk about how could we promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.
To investigate about what is our country doing on these themes.
To compare between Mexico, Japan and the world themes as justice, peace,no discrimination, equal right.
To share the information between them.
To prepare PPT information to share.
To prepare presentations.
EnglishTo work on different ways to take care of land.
To write the information to present to their partners in Japan.
To share the information between our classmates and post it on the Forum toshare with Japan students.
To prepare some materials and go around the school to share the importanceof taking care of corn and how to grow it and share with other grades at school.
To prepare the videoconference.
To investigate about Peace culture and equal rights too and sustainable
development.
Spanish
To share the information between them.
To prepare PPT information to share.
To design the mural.
To draw the first proposal.
Arts
To draw on the parcel.
To paint the parcel.

Hours72

36

36# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Taking care of the environment

Message

To be aware of the importance of taking care of our land and the most important foodof each (rice and corn).

United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
They worked in a collaborative way.
To continue working on collaborative work andThey developed many ideas for the mural.
respect.
They learned to work in small groups.
They understand the importance of respect,collaborative work and sustainable development.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They learned a lot about the culture, traditions and We learned to communicate between languages.
activities.
We interacted and got similar interests.
They discovered that students from both countries We learned about each city and traditions.
have similar interests.
They liked to know children like them in another partof the world.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCH
the theme

SHAREwith thepartnerJun.Aug.

Sep.
Oct.

What you did
Your students’ attitude/reflection
Introduced schools and They were excited about learning more
introduced ourselves with from Japan and their students.
photosandPPT
presentations on the Forum.
Decidedthecommon
learning theme.
Researched on the internet
and local news.
Summarized the research ina PPT.
Discussed the theme in theForum.
Shared the research withthe partners on one
videoconference withteacher.
Communicated the situationin each country about
justice, peace, equal rights
and no discrimination andabout life on land.
Thought about theimportance to do activities
to share and be conscious
about the themes.
Discussed in the Forum.

Subject

SpanishEnglishThey
investigated,sharedwithclassmates.
They worked in teams to discuss theinformation.
They made decisions and worked in acollaborative way.

SpanishEnglishUNITEthe thoughts

CREATEthe mural

APPRECIATE
the wholelearning

Nov.

Dec.
Jan.

Feb.

We discussed about how towork with kids about how
war has affected the world
and the importance ofjustice, peace and humanrights, also about theimportance of corn and rice.
We shared our activities andsome phrases and videos at
the Forum, we discuss about
the name of the mural andhow was going to be done.
Designed a mural anddecided how to divide it
into halves and which partto draw on the Forum.
Drewaproposal
tocomplement the other half.
Paint the Mural.
Sent the mural back toJapan.
Developed critical thinking.
Make a reflection about theenvironment.
Discussed about World
citizens to be able torespect and interact withdifferent people.

They gave ideas about how to prevent
some actions and what we can do fromwhere we are and from where we live.

SpanishEnglishArts

They worked together on line to give theideas and draw them.
They went to school in small groups topaint.
Arts

They worked in a collaborative way.

Arts

# 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

Cross-cultural
understanding

5

Active learning

5

On the way, students discussed the importance of peace culture andlife on land and how our actions can make a difference.

Critical thinking

4They were really active to share information with the rest of the school,
their Japan friends and their families.

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,
in shape

5

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
On the pictures we shared and the videoconference.

All of them worked together besides distance.
The mural was great and kids enjoyed the dialogues with their partners
from Japan.
They enjoyed preparing different meals made of corn.
They created fairy tales about corn.