REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Taiwan ]School[ Lu Jiang international school ] Teacher [ Verona Lee ] Grade ( 8 ) Member ( 77 )JP School [ Setoda junior High School ]Teacher [ Hirotaka Kato ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson⚫ Learn the words and terms about ocean conservation.
English⚫ Comprehend the situation about ocean sustainability in the world.
⚫ How the pollution harms the loss of ocean habitat
Science⚫ Ways to protect the ocean and creatures.
⚫ How the climate change affect the ocean marine life.
Geography⚫ The meaning and importance of SDG 14- ocean conservation.

Hours
466Art⚫ Discussion, draft design, drawing and painting

10ICT⚫ Learn the inforgraphic skills such as chart, diagram and graphs to analyze
how the industry waste, garbage and pollution aggect the ocean.
⚫ Poster and PPT making skills to share the research with partners.
⚫ Digital filming and video edit skills

8# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeNo water; no life ! Ocean conservation

MessageCreate a better world for the next generation! Be aware of the pollution and fight for abright future for both human beings and ocean creatures.

United thoughts toshare with the world

To promoting more awareness of Ocean conservation, we hope to create the image of a better
environment for the next generation and it is also the core idea of the mural painting. In the original mural,
we have the theme of restoring the ocean to its original appearance and developing environmental
sustainability. We added some marine creatures such as white dolphins, Orca, green sea turtles, and colorfulcorals in the mural. These marine creatures need a clean marine environment to reproduce the next
generation and form a richer marine ecosystem. In addition, we paint the sky orange, yellow, and red topresent a clean and leisurely twilight scene. It symbolizes joy, hope, and a bright future. Through this art
mural project, we hope that everyone will better understand marine conservation and environmental
sustainability, pay more attention to life below the water, ensure biodiversity, and prevent environmental
pollution.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement⚫ At the beginning of the project, we had on-line ⚫ Schools in Taiwan had been shut down due tolearning due to the covid 19 outbreak, it was very
the pandemic, and we shifted to the on-line
hard to do the international learning with partners.
learning. In the future, we need to have better
However, students leaned to overcame thepreparation such as devices and network
obstacle and made a greeting video on their own,
connection, etc. for better collaboration.
some of the works were unexpectedly good.
⚫ Have a better communication tool for on-line⚫ Learn the experience about how to work withvideo chat and make the network moreinternational partners with a global issue.
smoothly.
⚫ Appreciate the research and perspective from thepartner school and also pay more attention to thisissue.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers⚫ Be more confident to express themselves in ⚫ Learn how to collaborate with schools abroad.
English and were willing to speak out their view ⚫ Understand the meaning of important of SDG
about the issue.
much better and are willing to introduce these⚫ Pay much more attention to what is happening
global issues into their class and teaching.
around the world and enhance the global ⚫ Be open-mined to lean and challengeawareness as a world citizen.
themselves for better teaching development.
⚫ Admire the diversity culture and also appreciate
the strength and features about local culture.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

5-9

10-11

What you did
Students made introduction
and greeting video bothindividual and class topartner school. They alsosent post card with Taiwan
features to share localculture.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
We had a group of leaders from eachclass in charge of this project withteachers. They showed their leadershipand collaborating skills with others.
All the participants were very happy
to have the experience to work with theJapanese partners. Some of thestudents even found out their interests
in making these videos and focusedmore in the learning.

Student were introduced tovarious concepts and terms
about ocean conservation,
Then did research in groups
and shared their ideas withthe partners via videoconference. They learned
about how pollution andoverfishing are impacting theocean.

From the infrographic about ocean
problems, they understood how serious
the situation was. For example, turtles
and fish mistakenly eat plastic products
and caused a lot of suffering from theocean creatures. They showed morecomprehension and concern to makethe world better.

Subject

EnglishICT

EnglishScience
Geography

UNITE
Message of

11-12⚫ Have mutual discussion
about the research
result with the partners⚫ Think about attainable
solution for the issue.
⚫ Develop the theme idea
and concept of themural.

They learned how to make their points
clear and specific. My students also
found their partners’ research was very
professional and insightful. They werealso inspired by the videos andinforgraphic reports Japanese students
made. It’s an enlightening learning
experience to them.

12-2⚫ Understand the issues
about ocean pollution⚫ Worked in groups anddiscuss how to continue
thepaintingwith
mutual meaning to makeit a whole and complete
work.
⚫ Draft,drewandcompleted the mural.

Students worked together to share
their ideas and made a better
understanding about the SDG14. They
hope everyone will better understandmarine conservation and environmental
sustainability, pay more attention to life
below the water and prevent
environmental pollution.

We displayed the muralpainting at the school halland students explained themeaning and design to theteachers and other students
during the school morning
assembly.

They feel proud about what they hadachieved. It gave them a sense offulfilling experience and were more
willing to challenge themselves andconvey the global issues to others.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation2-3

EnglishGeography

ArtArt# 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

54

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
From the greeting learning process, they chose the cards with thefamous attractions or culture to highlight the features in Taiwan. Thisis also the important part of global learning. Students deepen theirperspective toward other culture by introducing their country andculture to others. The eight graders also recorded their writing process
and class greeting video to their partners respectively.
We also received the postcards and the New Year's greetings fromJapanese friends. My students learned that origami are delicate fromevery angle, we see the persistence and intention of the creators,
showing the spirit of Japanese professionals.
Students learned how to narrowed down the resources and focus on
the information that were related to their research and learned the skills
how Japanese students used a lot of stastic data and charts to support
their points. It was really a great experience for them to deepen theresearch techniques and perception.

Active learningand action

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

Expressing in words,
in shape

4

They did a field trip to the local community to experience a one-day
fisher. Ride the boat , spread the fish net and learned the ecology in thewel land. It gave them not only a valuable experience, but also got toknow the serious problems in person. It definitely strengthened theirmind and action to protect the ocean.
Understand the culture diversity and features and learn to appreciate
and respect people from different countries. By collaborating with otherpeople abroad, students also learned to admire their local culture andstrength. They slowly form a better understanding of their home town
and other countries.
The international program aims to foster the global perspective of SDG
goals and enhance students’ worldwide vision toward the global issues.
We are happy to paired with Setoda school and we have a lot in common.
Both close to the sea and are surrounded with rich ocean resources.
It’s good to work together to SDG 14 and share the ideas and learned
the knowledge from each other.