ABOUT THE PROJECT

Project layout

Students from Greece, Poland, Spain, Portugal and Italy will be involved in this project in order to learn about food.

Through the eTwinning platform, students will first get to know each other. After this first moment students will cooperate to make board games and a multilingual audio/video dictionary about food. 

The students will communicate through messagges, chats, videoconferences and their teachers will also communicate through videoconference and e-mails. They will use different skills to reach a common goal.  

Subjects: science, european languages, itc, interculture

The Languages used will be Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian and English

Pupil’s age: 6 - 9

Tools to be used: software - video, pictures, power points, web.2 tools (such as Glogster or similar), projet diary, email, skype, dropbox, webpublishing.

Aims:

• To get in touch with different cultures

• To understand that our body needs good food

• To learn to cooperate to obtain a result  

•  To develop students’ oral and written abilities.

• To motivate students to use English through the practice of the skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

• To make the students participate to the learning process.

• To develop students’ creativity through their cognitive skills.

• To promote their work by collaboration and communication.

• To promote their work by collaboration and communication

Work process

  In October: Students will create a slideshow with pictures and very short written presentations of themselves (power point or smilebox or similar). The slideshhow will be published both in the twin space and in a common blog .

In November/december: Students will create a food picture audio/video dictionary about fruit and vegetables. Each class will choose some of the items to put in the dictionary, make photos and record the nouns. With the same words/pictures they will also crate a common bingo to use in class (or even between classes via Skype if possible before Christmas)

From January to March: children will have the opportunity to learn which food is better for our body: the bigger students will prepare posters for the smaller ones. All the students will decide which food to put on a “snake and ladders” board game (good food takes you up, junk food takes you down). Students will also decorate their classrooms with food paintings/pictures to be shown to their european friends.

From April to May: Students, using also the opportunities given by the Milan 2015 EXPO, will search about food in the world, completing a common map. They will make a “goosegame” of food through the world.

Expecting results: Teachers, students, parents and school communities involved in the project will develop a good attitude towards other cultures.

Students will learn to communicate with other children through different media.

Students, using the board games they had been working on, will improve their attitude towards good food.