2016 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ France ]School[ Collège La Loge des Bois ] Teacher [ Thierry Lambert ]JP school [ Sijima Elementary School ] Teacher [ Kiyoshi Fujita ]Grade ( 7 )Member ( 21 )# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

History&Geography

Localization of Japan with Googleearth :◦ Time shift (day/night option).
◦ Main cities and islands. Countries in the neighboring.
Exploration of Kanazawa and the Sijima School neighboring. Virtual tour
with Google Street view.
Japanese writing : very short explanation of the functioning of kanjis,hiraganas, katakanas or romaji.
Understanding the Japanese pupils' difficulty to read our latin alphabet.
Using of Googletraduction to build short Japanese words.
Discovering Kanazawa's items (castle, samouraï houses, bambooforest).
Listing of our local area's historical and cultural heritage(To come): redaction of a little manual which will explain what is drawed
on the mural.

Hours

8Conception of cards :EnglishMusicArt◦

Presentation cards◦

New Years cards.

◦ Physics objects and school park trees cards.
Reading and understanding Japanese pupils' cards
Conception of a soundtrack for an upcoming video. The french
students sang both in French ("Tous les cris les SOS") and Japanese("Itsumo Nando Demo").

5

Choosing of the items to draw to present our local area's historical andcultural heritage (castle, forest, local horses, local mushrooms, ponds ...
etc).
Shooting the mural to make an (almost 1:1 scale) copy which will beexposed in our local castle-museum.

10# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Cultural & Local Heritage

Message

Being connected to each otherUnited thoughts toshare with the world10

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
They gained a better understanding of Japan and its
culture. They were eager to send more cards to their
Japanese pen-friends and were proud when they saw
the newspaper article. This project permits moreenglish practice and improvements. English reveals
itself essential to be exchange between our twocultures. Some students wants to stay connectedwith their Japanese counterparts and proposed theirsocial network's address.

Points for further improvement
For our first participation i lacked anticipation on
several issues. I wanted to contact a Japaneseteacher and make her come in our school to present
some language basics but i lacked of time to achieve
all i imagined. This year is special for us, there is a
big educational reform in France which is rather
complicated.
I hope to be more reactive and efficient next year
and anticipate more the imperatives of french andjapan school calendars.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Our school is in a rather isolated area. Our pupils do This project permits different teachers to work
not open themselves easily to the "outside world" together (essentially Physics & chemistry, English,and easily mismatch China with Japan. Globally, they Art and Music but also History and French). We
were very enthusiastic and asked many questions on enjoyed working together and it's always delightful tomany different subjects (bamboo forest, Tokyo work on something which started at the other end oftower, Mount Fuji, Japanese school uniform, the world.
Japanese's houses ...). They also learned things This kind of project permits a different connection
about their local area and history. Some didn't realize between pupils and teacher.
all the cultural wealth within some kilometers fromtheir homes.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

SeptFeb
SeptNov

UNITE

Nov
Dec

United message/

Mural design

CREATE

FebMarMural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

MarMayWhat you did-Presentation cards-New years cards-Thanking cards
Using of several internet
ressources :Googleearth,
GoogleStreetview or Wikipedia
Sharing the exchanges madeon the forum. Listing ouritems and comparing them tothe Japanese's ones

Two "special half days"
dedicated to the mural.
Rotating groups.
To come :Exhibitioninourcastle-museum of a copy ofthe mural. Making a notice to"read" the mural for parentsand visitor.
Contact the local newspaperYour students attitude/reflection
Interested and motivated. Made a lot of
decorated cards using pens and stickers
or powerpoint.
A lot of questions asked, they didn't
realize time was flowing so quickly("already ?" when the ring bells)
Curiosity and questions on the Japaneseculture in general and on Kanazawa's
items (bamboo forest, proximity of thesea, big crabs...)Painting, singing, taking pictures in thepark, writing cards ... A lot of motivation,fun and seriousness.
Proudness to see that their work will be
exposed or read.

Subject
EnglishHistory
Geography

PhysicsArt
EnglishHistoryMusic
EnglishArtArtHistory
French# 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 owncultures

B4

Understanding theother’s cultures

A

5

Communication /Collaboration abilities

Researches on internet, using of Googletraduction

A5B

5B

4C

5in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning
Expression ability
in words, in pictures

B5A

3

Appreciation ability
Appreciate the mural and thewhole collaborative learning

How your students have reached it
In classrooms. Questions, propositions.

Shooting photos in group.
Relying on others' work.
Painting in groups
Using Powerpoint and numerical cameras
Sending nominated cards. Remembering Japanese names.
Seeing the teachers differently through a common purpose : themuralSome student with difficulties used this project to express
themselves successfully. Realized that school skills can be
useful to self expression (English, drawing ...)
We were behind schedule with the mural. We couldn't expose it
long enough in our school. We can correct this with the buildingof a copy thanks to the pictures we schot.
Articles in newspapers.