REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ India ]School[ Suncity School ] Teacher [ Himani Mehta ] Grade ( 5-6 ) Member ( 30 )JP School [ Okuno Elementary School ] Teacher [ Kaoru Imaizumi / Hiroshi Kobuke ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
EnglishHours

Introduction of self, school, city, country

2

Research on population explosion in India, problems, solutions

10ICT

PPTs, videos on Introduction, our culture, research, SDGs in focus

4Art

Planning, drawing, painting, assembly preparation

15Social Studies,Science# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world(SDG 11)
Both schools agreed that there should be“Quality of life/healthy living” and “no disparity and poverty.”“A safe and secure world” is essential for “people's physical and mental health.”
One of the concrete forms of “peace and love” is “everyone supporting each other.”# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Students researched the problem of populations, They are still young to understand the ways towhether it is too much or too little. Our country’s reduce population growth. But they can learn to use
population impacts not just living conditions but also their population as strength.
the environment. There is a strain on resources.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students learnt how to manage time because this Mostly we met our students on MSTeams as they
project was apart from their regular studies. They had to were a group from different classes and sections.
research about the SDG 11, 15. However they could use For research, we were communicating online. During
this knowledge for their regular subjects also and taught painting time, we took small groups to work with intheir peers about what they have learnt. They also our art lessons. So we learnt to manage situations
understood how difficult it is to speak English if it is not like this.
the medium of instruction, like in Japan. They started
trying to speak slowly to make their partners understand.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCHthe theme

SHAREwith thepartner

UNITE
the thoughts

CREATEthe mural

APPRECIATE
the wholelearning

Jul.

Aug.

Sep.
Oct.

Nov.Feb.

Mar.

What you did
Introduction with cards,
PPTs on school, city,country,
showcaseof
traditional dresses, food,traditions, festivals

Your students’ attitude/reflection
Students were very enthusiastic toshare their culture and also excited tolearn about Japanese culture in the VC.
We had two Japanese students in ourgroup and that was very good when we
needed to translate for our Japanese
friends.
We learnt something new- Dango
Nenbutsu. Declining population in Japan.

Research about causes ofpopulation explosion, theproblems that come fromthem, how people are coping.
We had our Japaneseparents also come forward
to share their views on theproblem.

Students researched about problems
and solutions that were being
implemented at government level in
India. How SDG 11 is also connectedwith SDG 14,15. It was interesting tohear their thoughts. One student
showed a solution to get low cost clean
drinking water with an invention.

We shared all the research,problems and solutions with
our partner school in ourvideo conference.

The Forum was a good place to share
everything as we could not have too
many online meetings.
Both groups decided on a combined
message for the world. There werecommonalities of our thoughts.
Naamya Wali came up with the idea ofthe balance to show less and more
population. We added public transport,
showed people as a strength and also
showcased the traditional art forms of
our Indian culture.

Students were asked todraw, write their ideas about
how the whole picture
should connect and become
one big picture. We shared
our students’ thoughts andideas on the Forum aboutwhat to draw.
Students have written about
their experience in thiscollaboration. They shared in
the morning assembly.

Students proudly displayed and talked
about the whole experience, theirlearning, in the assembly. We will uploadthem on the Forum.
We will also put the project on theschool Facebook page.

Subject

EnglishSocialStudies,Art
ICTEnglishArt

EnglishICT# 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 effectCross-cultural
understanding

Evaluation

5Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
Students loved sharing of our culture through dress, customs, food.
It was very interesting to have Japanese students even on our side. They
were able to understand and translate where needed and became an
important part of Indian group.
We loved the beautiful origami we received from our friends. We also sent
some cards and gifts made by our students to our friends in Japan.

We were very happy to see that Japanese friends were learning Indian
Warli art.

Cross-culturalunderstanding

5

Students researched problems and solutions that were being implemented
at different levels. It was so nice to see one invention to provide low costclean drinking water, that was researched and even showcased on themural.

Active learningand action

4

When research leads to deeper thinking, it is successful critical thinking.
The invention was one example.

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

4Interaction with our partners was a challenge as their English
communication was very beginner level. We were reminded to speak slowly
in the VC many times. Here our two Japanese students really helped. Miu
and Miharu were a great help to both sides.

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

We presented the mural project in the morning assembly and the whole
school saw the mural displayed in the Primary block. Students wereconfident in presenting, visualizing, drawing, painting.

Expressing in words,
in shape5