2012 IIME REPORTCountry [ Morocco ]School [ Ibnou el Haytam ] Teacher [ Khalifa Aissam ] grade ( 5 ) student number ( 36 )JP School [ Katsura] Teacher [ Minamisawa Hiroki ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Drawing
Discussion about Japan and Morocco: we talked about the traditions, themonuments, etc. of Morocco, we posed the questions about Japan to the Japanese
students, and we received the answers and photos.
Drawing
Discussion about the composition. Drawing of the composition on the paper.
Drawing

Tracing the composition on the canvas and painted with the colors. Appreciation.

Times
643

# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme“Bond, Dream, Future”- Dreams of the children for the future and characteristics of each culture
The children draw their dreams, the characteristics of Morocco, and their hopes related to “the right of thechildren”. For the characteristics of Morocco, they draw three things: 1. The “Moroccan couscous” that is theMessage

oldest and the most popular food in Morocco, 2. “Sahara” that we can see the nature with sand, camels, and theheat of the sunset, 3. The “Kasba”, the tower of our city, that is the oldest and the most beautiful in our town.
In the wing of the bird, each children draw their dreams: each of them has the different dream related to thesports, the arts and crafts, the traditions, the literatures, the nature, the environment, and so on.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained

Points for further improvement

The children are very happy about this project. They found that

Honestly, it was difficult for us to participate, because we don’t

the painting can express themselves and their needs. They were

have enough time for the project (the time for drawing class isfascinated with the paints, and they were strongly impressed byvery short), the children don’t have enough tools, and they were

the drawings, especially the drawings related to “the rights of the

not really familiar with the theme. But it’s the problems of ourchildren” and their dreams in the future.

country: we need to reserve the time every week for the class.

# Have you made your activity open in your school or in your local area? How was their reaction or reputation?
PR you did inside/out of your school
Reaction/reputation from aroundWe made our activity open in our school. There were two classes

All of the children and the teachers loved it, and they also wanted

who participated in this project, and we appreciated the mural

to continue some activities in the future.

completed by suspending it on the wall of the school. All of thechildren and teachers in the school saw it and took the photos.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

ResearchComposition

Painting

Appreciation

SeptOct

NovFebFeb

What you did

Your students attitude/reflectionIntroduction about the project andthe collaboration learning
Self-introduction

They are very happy about this project.

The children posed the questions
related to Japan.
We asked the volunteer Japanese
to talk about Japan.
We discussed about the theme of
the mural, and we tried drawing on
the paper.

They are influenced by your culture.

We received the canvas and thepaints, and we finished drawing
and painting the half.
We took the photo and suspended
on the wall of the school.

They were fascinated with the mural and
we took the photos.

# Aim of the Lessons and ResultAimRank
understanding
our own cultures

5Understanding
the other culturescommunication ability
interactively / in English

IT skills

Creating friendship

Keeping motivation highpositive attitude in learning

Expression ability
in painting

Appreciation ability
reading the painting

Drawing
They draw really nice, and many of thechildren in the school saw it and wanted
to participate in the project..

Drawing

Drawing

We all appreciated the mural in the school.
Drawing

How your students have reached it
They discussed about our characteristics and traditions.

5 4 ○
3 2 1

They asked the Japanese volunteer to talk about Japanand the children posed some questions about Japan.

5 ○43 2 1

They exchanged some ideas with our partner anddiscussed some ideas.

3 2 ○
1

They couldn’t do anything about IT because we don’t
have the computers in the school and we didn’t haveenough access to the Internet.

5 4 3 ○
2 1

They exchanged some messages and photos.

45 ○4

They collaborated a lot with the partners and theclassmates to finish painting the mural.

25 4 3 2 1○a lot. They were very impressed by the Japanese culture.

15 4 3 2 1○
and they did their best.

35 4 3 2 1○
appreciated with their schoolmates.

in the class / with partners

Collaboration

Drawing

5 4 3 2 1○
Some of them brought the pictures of the characteristics.

5 4forum / video conferencein the class / with partners

MarkSubject

3 2 1

They were very fascinated with the project and motivated

They draw really nice. They had some try before painting

They showed the mural to all of the school and