REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ Turkey ]School[ Emine Örnek School ] Teacher [ Yıldız Kenter Bolukbaşı ] Grade ( 6 ) Members ( 15 )JP school [Kuchinoerabu-jima Children's Organization ] Teacher [ Kyoko Kibune ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
The students have become more interested in learning about global
Art
problems and express their feeling by drawing on the mural. Awareness was themain point of our study.
Language

English language was used during the lessons; very efficient and useful# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

Water is our future
Let’s collaborate together and leave a better World for our next generations.

Hours46

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
They believe if they enlighten people all aroundus they can live in a green world.
Please, protect the Nature.

Points for further improvement
I liked the project the way it works, the steps werevery useful for guidance. Maybe, when we send thecargo we can put some small objects which
represent our country by giving some explanations
regarding it.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Students had the chance to brainstorm and plan The learning has become more creative and active.
their mural, which forced them to get creative and I have seen the eagerness in my students’ eyes
exchange their ides with their partner from Japan.
when they were working on the project which reallymakes me very delighted.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofSept.

Oct.

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Introduction between two Excited and impatient to work withschools.
the Japanese students.

Research the theme fromdifferent resources andshare with our partner.

Students worked hard with devotion
to share their ideas and survey to theJapanese students.

Write our thoughts, express
and share with the students
from our school.

Students discussed and worked on
how to preserve their environment
and natural resources. They started
noticing the enviromental problems
around them.

Nov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Talked about how to divide
the mural into two parts andwhat/how to draw it.
Dec.

Jan.

Show the mural in theclassroom and discuss thethemes with the otherstudents.

Students deepened their knowledge
and had the chance to make adifference and give importance toreduce, recycle and reuse in ourcountry.

Students were aware that the whole
World has got the same problems soworking together can help us to findsolution and save the World.

Subject
EnglishGeography

ICTArtArt

# 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 effect
Understanding yourown cultures
Understanding yourpartner's cultures
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)

Evaluation

5Students had the chance to represent their culture and do someresearch about it.

5Students learnt lots of things about the culture of their partner. On themural they have seen the traditional Japanese clothes which engaged
their attention.

4

Students worked very hard during their researches. Later, they shareand discuss the ideas with their classmates and draw their ideas on themural.

545

Using the forum was very useful to communicate with our partner.
Sharing and discussing the ideas in order to collaborate together.
Brainstorm, creativity and research were the main points of our project.
Students stand face to face with the global problems about which they
have never thought before. It was a good experience for them.
Working on Artmile Project show us the importance of active learning.
and action. Students realized that the other countries has the sameproblems like water pollution and etc.

4Students share and discuss the topic on the mural with their classmates.
The other students also had the chance to talk about global problems inthe World.

4

Students express their feelings on the mural by drawing the World theywant to live and indicate the importance of recycling, and reusage of theproducts.

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

5

During the project students had the chance to represent their ability,
they paid extra attention to all the details and worked very hard.