Schedule of the project

Task 1 - Introduce yourself, your school and your Country. Icebreaking activity

First you have to read the goals and objectives of the project and share them with your classmates. Then you have to introduce yourself, you can talk about you, your hobbies, what you like and dislike. You have to use padlet, you find it below in this page. Second, in the section “Materials” there is a folder of your Country where you can upload pictures about you and your daily life, …. Third, for introducing your school/Country you can use software as Word, PowerPoint, video, etc….. then you have to upload it in a folder in section “Materials”.

Deadline 1 - 31 October.

Task 2 - Find out traditional food in every country

Students have to find out traditional food of their Country. They have to work in group to prepare an article about pros & cons traditional food. Students have to include in the article at least 3 different recipes of traditional food.

1 Nov-30 Nov

Task 3 Make a logo of the project – Our logo project – I propose my logo

Each student, group or school have to create a logo for the project about traditional food. Then each logo named with a specific word have to be uploaded in a folder on twinspace. Each student after look at the pictures can vote favorite logo on www.stickymoose.com writing the word of logo. Each student can vote just once. The logo with more vote will be the project’s logo. For this activity you have time until 15th Dec.

Deadline 1-30 Dec

Additional activity

Christmas is coming: please, send 2 postcards to each of the participating schools via post. (ask all the schools to write their school address with a name in the apposite google.doc) the aim of sending is a postcard notice board creation from different Countries.

Deadline 1-15Dec

Task 4 - The importance of traditional food. Do you know why is traditional food so important?

Students have to work in group of different countries for realizing a mindmap. They have to start from this question: “Is traditional food healthy?” then they have to indicate benefits, healty food, food to avoid, how much to eat, the costs, etc…

For this activity they have time until 31st Jan

Deadline 1-31Jan

Task 5 - Collect written and oral sources. I interview older people about traditional food

Students have to interview elder people about food of the past in their hometown, write the recipes with ingredients and procedure and insert them in the shared ebook. If it’s possible students can register the interviewed and make a video with subtitles in English and link it to ebook.

Deadline 1 Feb - 15 March

Task 6 - Exchange recipes for favorite traditional dishes;

Students have to choose one of the recipes showed by other countries they like and cook it. Then present the outcome on Twinspace. Students can ask for ingredients you cannot find in their country to be sent to you by mail. Be creative!

Deadline 16 March - 30 April

Task 7 - Final outcome – I show you what I did!

Each school team has to prepare a presentation to communicate the results of the project to their partners by meeting online

Deadline 1-15May

At the end of the project the students take a survey with the same questions as the initial survey, to see whether they changed habits or views on traditional food.

Deadline 16-31May