2015 IIME REPORTCountrySchoolPartner[ Russia ][ Moscow State School 1471 ] Teacher [ Kostikova Anna ] Grade ( 5-8 ) Students ( 15 )
[ (JP) Kanonji Elementary School ] Teacher [ Atsuko Kitani ]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson

Hours

socialStudy about traditions and culture of partner’s country.

24

IT

Use the on-line forum and try video conferences (VC)

20

Art

Draw a mural

14# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Our lovely living place
How well we know national culture and traditions of our partners.

Message# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
The goal was to learn more about Japan and We want to improve our language skills. Next year weJapanese culture and to show the similarity of want to try our communication only in Japanesedifferent cultures.
(during the video conference)# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
They understood the similarity of cultures even at I saw how little thing know students about Russian
the first time Japan and Russia seemed so different. traditional culture. In the classroom, we have tried to
They saw how art can help them to present their make up for the disadvantage. I hope it will be very
opinion, feelings, and knowledge.
useful for their life, for understating the process ofglobalization.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

Sep

ResearchOct
Nov

Composition

Nov
Dec

JanFeb

Painting

Appreciation
Reflection

March

What you did
Made a greeting cards.

Your students attitude/reflection
They were happy to know about theirnew friends.

By using internet, readingencyclopedias, asking ateacher we did research.
Did VC for making friendship.
Prepared X-mas cards andgifts to send to Japan, wrote
on the forum.
Made VC
We draw the mural out of
the class time. We separated
into groups. Every group had
a leader who helps to create
the unique design.

We draw some drafts to the future mural,
trying to find the most interesting
aspects of our culture and local famousplaces..
Children had very interesting ideas. The
attitude to the VC was very positive.

We displayed our mural at the halland shared it with all the studentsof our school? also presented themural on Moscow conference forteachers. We are drawing thebook “ABC of Russian culture”.
Students wrote the report about
their work in project.

Though our pupils are very busy they
enjoy painting. The little ones were a bit
afraid of painting on their own, but theelder students helped them. In the end
they could work independently.
The students are very proud. Thank you
for opportunity to participate in thisproject. It is great to be part ofsomething like that.

Subject
SocialIT
SocialIT
Social
ITArtArtArt# 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

A5

A

5

B

4

C3

B

4

A

4

Understanding theother’s cultures
Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learning

B5Expression abilityB

4

Appreciation ability

B3

How your students have reached it
By the research
From our partners and by research at encyclopedia and internet
They used Japanese at VC and cards and English at the forum
We did VC, send messages on the forum
Our partner’s photo at mural, VC, exchanging of the parcels
helped us in creating friendship.
They were separated into groups in researching and painting.
For the 5th grade pupils it was the 1st mural, that’s why they
were especially highly motivated. Elder students who had someexperience of painting the mural in the past helped the younger
ones.
every child had opportunity to present his /her own sketch,every idea was very useful for making a mural
When we complete our mural we show it to all our pupils at thehall and to the teachers in Moscow during the conference.