this is my project

My project will concern traditional products of our country.

At the begging  I will try to find 3 or 4 colleagues from different countries, each of which will present its traditional products. It combines environmental education with the aid of technology. The stimulus will be given by a discussion about their breakfast, as they usually eat manufacturing products (fast food) and they don’t eat healthy traditional food.

Age of students 9-10 years old

Subjects involved  : environmental education, language, art

The aims of the project

·         Students will know the agricultural products of each country

·         It will give the opportunity to students to know that agricultural products   depend   on   the climate of   each country.

·         They will get to know traditional professions concerning to the cultivation of  these products

·         Learn to communicate, collaborate,  respect and exchange opinions with   other peers  

·         Learn the evaluation of these products in their daily balanced diet

·         Create digital projects, like a crossword , a painting, an e-book

·         Develop writing skills to write recipes

Work process of the project

The subject I have selected to deal with is part of the curriculum. It incorporates in environmental education .We will work in teams of 4 students, using the method of project and collaboration.

·         At the beginning schools and students will introduce themselves with videos

·          Then each partner will look for information of his own country’s traditional products and create a power point. Find recipes about them.

·         Teachers will communicate once a week exchanging ideas about the continuity of the project with skype

·         Students and teachers will communicate via platform of twinspace twice a month, presenting their work

·         We will visit places such as a bakery to learn how the small ring- shaped biscuit is produced (the traditional product of my town) , a factory which produces tomatoes pins and so do other participants to their countries

·         We will invite parents or external experts such as a chef or nutritionist to inform and cook with us, traditional dishes such as a cheese pie, or a potato pie and so on

·         We can also exchange a card for Christmas or Easter. One school will create and the others will continue to add their own wishes, so it will travel by post to other collegues.

·         At the end we will exchange products with other schools by post

·         We will present the project to all the students of our school or publishing it at the blog of our school, spreading it widely

Expected results

·         Students will adopt these products in their daily diet

·         Widely spread in school community by school’s blog

·         Students get to know the value of traditional food, which we have forgotten

·         The evaluation will be conducted with a padlet, a google forms (answer some questions) so as to get feedback.

·         Moreover, we can use a thinkling to express our wishes about the summer as the project will reach at the end

·         Create an e-book with the recipes we gathered

·         Teachers and students benefit of the collaboration and teachers develop their professional skills

Tools which will be used

·         Thinkling, a very interesting and amusing

·         Padlet expressing opinions

·         Polling tools

·         Google docs

·         A drawing programme to produce a collaborative draw

·         Issue to create an e-book

·         Answergarden, a collaborative tool for brainstorming