2017 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ Mexico ]School [ FORMUS ] Teacher [ Sergio Moreno-Juan / José Pérez ] Grade ( 4th ) Member ( 90 )JP school [ Musashimurayama Elementary School ] Teacher [ Ayano Kazama ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

EnglishHealth Science

Culture and traditions Japan-México
 Research about the two countries
 Oral presentations to the class Debates about similarities and differences

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Olympic and Paralympic sports.
 Research about Olympic and Paralympics sports
 Oral presentation to the class Experience what is to have a disability by playind a sport while having
the eyes covered.
 Watch videos about Olympic and Paralympics games and then discuss
about them.

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

Hours

Olympic and Paralympic GamesWe are all the same, we are all number one, and we are all winners.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Most of our student didn’t know anything about I think that to make the topics more interesting, it
Paralympic games. They were surprised they existed. could be a good idea to work on problems that areaffecting children nowdays.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They were happy to learn about Japan. They realized It helped us reflect about the differences in thehow polite Japanese people are. They discovered teaching system in both countries.
about the philosophy of life in Japan# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth
MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
United message/SEP

OCTNOV

Mural design

CREATE
Mural paintingAPPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

What you did
Self-introduction posters

JANFEBMAR

Research about Japan:
InternetVideos
All students were given apaper copy of the half of themural. They were asked todraw
theotherhalf
individually with their own
ideas. After we collected all
the drawing, teachers andstudents decided together
what elements to include inthe mural.
We made teams in order tohave all the students toparticipate painting themural. It took more time, but
all the students were happy
because they were able todraw or paint a bit.
We display the mural in theschool playground for all theother students to seeYour students attitude/reflection
They were glad to see how Japanesekids and schools look like.

SubjectENGLISH

They discovered interesting facts
about daily and school life in Japan.
ENGLISH

Accepting other’s people ideas is notalways easy, but when we have acommon goal we can work out thedifferences.
ART

When we have a good organization wecan include everybody so we canreach our goal.
ARTStudents felt proud to see theyreached their goal.

HEALTHSCIENCE

# 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

They became aware of how symbols are important for one culture.

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

5

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, critical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

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They realized that although our cultures are different, at the end we havea common goal, to be happy and live in peace.
It definitely help them to develop their researching skills
Our students love oral communication. They were so excited about doingoral presentations about the topics..
They were able to use their skills to analyze
Perfect for the philosophy of our school: Learn by doing

5

Team work was the core of this project. No goals can be achieved
without collaboration.

5

They had the chance to express themselves orally and also by drawing.
Perfect combination to develop communication skills.

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

Students filled a rubric to evaluate what they had accomplished.
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