2018 IIME REPORTCountry/Region [ United States ]School[ Scales Mound Junior High School ] Teacher [ Karen Kelly ]JP school [ Sapporo Odori High School ] Teacher [ Yumika Amano ]Grade ( 8 )Member ( 14 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

Social Studies

Physical geography of Japan

5

Social Studies

Cultural understanding of Japan

4

Social Studies

History of Japan

6# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts to share with the world

Sustainable Development Goals
Creating a perfect village
Development Goals are met

wheretheSustainable

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
The students learned about the Sustainable
Development Goals and the importance on how
everyone in the world needs to work together toreach these goals.

Points for further improvement
It would be nice if the students could contact eachother directly, instead of the teachers writing theposts on the forum. I think it would be a greatinteraction for students to freely communicate witheach other.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
The students have a better understanding of being a Teachers around the world work very hard to bringteenager outside of the United States. They also the best educational experiences to their students.
have learned many things about the country of Japanand the people. They also learned about theimportance of the Sustainable Development Goals.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
United message/

Aug SeptOct. Nov.

Nov

Mural design

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Jan FebFeb

What you did
We sent introduction lettersand learned about being ateenager in each other's
countries
We messaged through theforum and answeredquestions about the
Sustainable Development
Goals explaining which goals
we thought were the mostimportant
We shared questions andanswers about the
Sustainable Development
Goals
Working in groups, students
designed each area of themural, selecting pictures ordrawing pictures. Students
drew the mural ideas andthen painted the images

We hung the mural in theschool hallway for students
and community to enjoyYour students attitude/reflection
Students realized being a teenager in adifferent country is the same as being ateenager in the United States
Students learned about the Sustainable
Development Goals. They also analyzed
which goals are important in our region
and in other locations around the world.

Students analyzed why the Sustainable
Development Goals are important aroundthe world and analyzed why the focus on
goals and needs are different in othercountries
Students were very stressed during thedrawing of mural, they were afraid they
did not have good artistic skills. All
students in the group had to help withthe painting. Some of the students foundout they can be artistic. It was excitingto watch each student find his/hertalents.
They students realized they do haveartistic abilities and are very proud of
their partner mural

Subject
SocialStudies

SocialStudies

SocialStudies

SocialStudies

SocialStudies

# 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

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

Understanding yourown cultures

5Students identifying which Sustainable Development Goals need to befocused on in the United States

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

5

Students analyzing the goals our partner school through were importantand how they were similar or different from our goals

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

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

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

555

Students analyzed the Sustainable Development Goals. What did thesegoals mean in different regions of our world? How the United States
could work to meet these goals? What we individually can do in our daily
lives to meet the SDGs.
Students actively learned about other students lives and goals in Japan
while realizing what each of them can change in their daily lives to help
our world meet the SDGs.
It was a great activity to collaborate through the forum answering
questions about SDGs and sending questions to our partner students.

5

The mural symbolizes the perfect village where we all follow SDGs andlive a happy healthy life.

5

The students discussed their final impressions, they were proud of thefinished mural and sad to send it back to Japan.

55

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Sharing questions and answers through the forum made the students
understand each countries perspective on the Sustainable Development
Goals
Students communicating through letters and on the forum made themrealize we need to work together to reach our goals