REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ México ]School[ Colegio Formus ] Teacher [ Kimberly Gzz. Shay ] Grade ( 4th ) Member ( 80 )JP School [ Ogawa Elementary School ]Teacher [ Kohei Ogawa ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Hours
We work on this project during the time of English class. The main objective isto show children that through a common language (outside their own) they 2 hours
Englishmanage to communicate and learn from their peers around the world.
perSome of the subjects and skills that are worked on within the project are: art, week
research, writing, reading, general culture, history, science, among others.
# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

goal #12 "Responsible Consumption
The message was based on goal 12 “Responsible Consuption” They tried to express
their worries about food loss, water pollution, and the increase in industrial waste asissues. They designed the mural based on these issues: buying only what you use, local
production for local consumption, 3R, using refills, collecting clothes, not leaving foodbehind. We discussed based on their thoughts, then the students from Ogawa Elementary
School sent us proposals of designs they made and the children of Formus chose oneof the designs through a vote. Later they designed the complement of this design (theMexican side) creating their own drawings, we made another vote to choose the designthat they would paint on the mural.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
They learned about an interesting culture, they wereimpressed by some facts that they didn´t know andthey realized that at the end of everything, thechildren of the world seek to take care of our planet.
I observed a commitment to responsible consumption
when we did an activity and before choosing a material
they questioned where it came from and if it waspossible to recycle. At home we also received
feedback from parents who mentioned that children
were avoiding consuming unnecessary things.

Points for further improvement
They realized that changing habits at home is a hardtask and it takes time. They had some ideas, likecampaigns to promote the responsible use of natural
resources. Some children made posters to invite all
the students in the school to work on this goal.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They realized that there are many similarities between The perception I had about schools: teachers andwhat they think and what children in Japan think students in Japan is different from the reality thatabout caring for the world.
exists in both countries. Despite the differences in
They developed skills of empathy and collaborative ages and grades, the children's thoughts were similar
work, they were resilient despite the difficulties we and I was positively surprised that the students from
faced during the project, and they tried to adapt to Mexico actually had previous information aboutcircumstances and times. I observed that they Japanese culture.
maintained their enthusiasm for research andinformation sharing# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the themeSep.

Oct.

What you did
The children made a poster
in English to introduce
themselves,
wewereworking online during thattimesotheysent
photographs of themselvesfrom home with somephrases of things they likeand drawings.
We began by investigating
the SDGs, we watched somevideos and the children
made inferences about theobjective of these 17 goals.
Then, they decide toresearch on goal # 12, wewatched some videos andwe visited different web
sites that allowed us tobetterunderstandtheproblembyextreme
production and uncontrolledconsumption.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
They were excited to share their likes
with children from another country andfind out if they had things in common
with them. They shared that one of theirfavorite foods is sushi. Some madeanime drawings.

Subject

EnglishThe children were surprised by thenumbers and they mentioned somepoints that they observe in our country
such as:the waste of foodthe production of plastic bottles
the unnecessary purchase of objects
and products, like toys, clothes,accessories, etc.

EnglishUNITE
Message ofNov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

Feb.

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

We shared a presentation
with the ideas that thechildren had after doing aninvestigation about thepossible solutions for goal
#12.
We organized the students
soeveryone
could
participate, during this stage
some of the students wereat home and others at
school, so it was a hard task
to send the mural to thehomes of the children who
took the classes on line,
but thanks to everyone's
commitment we achieved
the goal on time.
We made an oral reflection
as a group when we finished
our mural, we took somephotos and prepared apresentation to share our
project with the teachers of
the school.

The children worked in teams of 5
students to share their solutions andrecorded in their notebook the mostfunctional ideas to start a campaign athome and at school.
They were worried about delivery times
and the situation we were after theChristmas holidays, with a third wave of
Covid in our country we had returned toonline classes.
At first, they thought that we wouldn’t
succeed but after designing a strategy
to achieve the participation of all (the72 students) they felt more encouraged.

English/SocialStudies

English/Art

The children were very excited to share
all the work they did with the teachersand students of the school.
English# 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

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Evaluation

5

5

Active learningand action

4

Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Expressing in words,
in shape

5

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
From the beginning of the project, the kids showed enthusiasm forlearning about Japanese culture. They even shared books that theirfamilies had bought for them on trips to Japan. Also they had manyquestions and we made a presentation with all the doubts about theculture, we sent it to our classmates from the school of Ogawa
Elementary School.
They made some proposals in order to generate positive results in ourcommunity.
We started a new campaign to promote awareness in families about
consumerism, we donate toys and clothes to some institutions seeking
to share what we have.
The kids, the teachers around the school and parents worked together
to complete the project on time.
The children constantly talked about the changes they made at home,small tasks such as: recycling, sharing, donating, asking for fewer gifts
for Christmas and on their birthdays, thinking carefully about what theyneed and not buying extra things when they go to the store with theirpotato.