REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Maldives ]School [ Thaajuddeen School ] Teacher [ Aminath Zamra ] Grade ( 6and 7) Member ( 15 )JP School [ Tomonoura Compulsory Education School ]Teacher [ Yu Yamaguchi ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
ScienceArt
Social Studies

Hours

Eco system, ocean and reefs,
Creatures found in our oceans, how I picture water world will be likeWays of protecting the oceans, our responsibilities# Theme and Message of the muralTheme

Life below waterMessage

To ensure a sustainable future, we need to keep our beaches clear of trash, and preservea healthy marine ecosystem where sea life can thrive

United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gainedStudents are more open minded and think of even thesmallest actions that can harm the oceans. They voiceout their concerns and work toward creating a betterworld for the future.

Points for further improvement
Take more time to let the students do their own
research into the topic, get the students to share
their findings with the rest of the school community.
Organize school wide awareness programs by thegroup of students# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They are more aware of the similarities of the Friendly and helpful
problems oceans in Maldives and oceans in Japan arefacing. They are more aware of the damages caused
even by a small piece of trash thrown in to the sea.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research onthe theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

May

What you did
Introduction of the program
to the students andstudents introductions forthe partner schoolYour students’ attitude/reflection
They were very excited to work with thestudents of Japan

Exploring the theme life
below water

Eager to learn, excited about theinformation they gained

EnglishJune

JulyNov

ScienceResearch in to the themeand their presentations

More thoughtful and take note of theiractions, More aware of their surrounding
and the changes that have occurred

Drawing and painting of themural

Appreciation of the natures blessings

JanFeb

Subject

Socialstudies

Arts

Reflection of their workthroughout the working
periodMore in-touch with the nature
English

# 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)

Active learningand action

Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

4

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
When they made the presentations they took the initiative to use thegoogle translator to make sure Japanese students can understand what
they have written, when asked why they made the slides in both thelanguage they said, from the google meet we realized students in Japan
were using an interpreter to understand us.
Made their own pledges not to put trash in to the oceans

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3

4

Took responsibilities to their actions, used less single use plastic, madesure the clean up after them and encouraged others not to be carlesseven with tiny bit of trash
Though they were a bit reluctant to share their thoughts and voice theactions in the school assembly, I believe it was a great start

By the end of this program the group of students had a better bondamong them