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REPORT OF GREEK TEAM

SEPTEMBER 2012 - APRIL 2013

SEPTEMBER 2012

Information about the Comenius Project (objectives and activities)

Creation of Comenius team of 1^ST and 2^ND grade

OCTOBER 2012

Suggestions

Interviews of scientists and specialists on the topic

   Information for students on course program

28 October-3 November 2012 first meeting in Romania

Comenius team (3 Greek teachers)

NOVEMBER 2012

Logo creation

Creation of questionnaire

Interviews from fast food

Creating three teams of action to achieve project goals

First team: aiming at creating the logo

      Second team: aiming at the making and the spreading out of the questionnaire also working on the results of the research

      Third team: interviews with qualified scientists and visits to food places

     Each activity group informed the others about their activities

Select students for the next trip

DECEMBER  2012

     The second group printed and studied the questionnaire that had been filled out at the meeting in Romania, divided in 5 classes of 20 students they collected 100 questionnaires and elaborated the outcome of the research

JANUARY 2013

      The students decided after interactive discussion to visit and interview a psychologist of our town for scientific validity of the program

Preparation of visit in Italy

Creation of portfolios

FEBRUARY 2013

      Useful and valuable has been the interview with our gymnastic instructor at school who believes that regular exercise and healthy diet contributes to extend long- living

18 -22 February 2013 second meeting in Italy

Comenius team (4 Greek teachers and 3 students)

MARCH 2013

The three activity teams get informed by their Comenius project teachers about the creation of a questionnaire related to food pyramid survey

First part of virtual guide

Preparation materials for Turkey

APRIL 2013

The students found out the benefits of healthy nutrition and daily physical exercise

The accomplishment of food pyramid

14 -19 April 2013 third meeting in Turkey

Comenius team (3 Greek teachers and 3 students)

Prepared by GREEK coordinator

VASO  ALEXAKI

Romanian team's activities before April 2013

Spanish experience in Turkey

The project. September 2012 - April 2013

Spanish Report

Last September we began our Comenius Project called “Teenagers between the culinary tradition and Fast food”.  We organised the Comenius team in the school and began to work in the project. We presented it in the teachers’ meeting “Claustre de professors” , “Consell Escolar” and in the parents’ meeting at the beginning of the school year.  Then the parents interested in allowing their sons to take part in it, had a second meeting with the coordinator of the project and signed a contract. This year we have offered an optional subject called “Comenius” for the students of the 3^rd year of ESO interested in the project. 

Activities organised at the school in October

The students of Baccalaureate had a lecture and workshops organized by Khepra, an institution with deals with problems caused by unhealthy eating habits.  A nutritionist came to our school and organised a workshop in order to make students aware of the importance of having healthy habits. Some tips were given to our students in order to improve their eating habits. The students of the 3^rd Year of ESO went to visit the “ el bus de la alimentación””healthy food bus”.  It was an exhibition about healthy eating habits organized by Caixa Catalunya .  A guide explained the students the importance of eating healthily. Our students of the 3^rd year of ESO went there and the parents too.

MEETINGS

Our first meeting was in Romania in November(30th October -3 November), but only for teachers,15 in total:2 from Spain, Pilar Belloc and Darío Castro. In Romania we worked in the project. First, we presented our school, educational system, country, talked about how to increase awareness among the students and how to encourage them to eat healthily.  We could taste the traditional Romanian dishes and know  about its culinary culture. We visited the different fast food restaurants of the city. We decided the dates of the visits. .We looked for a name for the project and launched the blog with the name “Mum’s food or fast food” We designed the tasks to be done by the students for the Italian meeting. “A questionnaire about fast food or traditional food

In November, we organised a logo contest in each school  and the Spanish logo designed by Félix and Antonio Guijarro was the winner.  The students of the 3^rd year of ESO of the optional subject Comenius began to interview the rest of the students of the school, made the graphs and wrote the conclusions.  These tasks are shown on our Comenius blog, created by the Spanish team, and in the Virtual Guide done by the Portuguese team.  The students tried to analyse the kind of food served in our local fast food restaurants and show the rest of the school the dangers of eating that kind of food.

In December, the students prepared the presentation of the school and their own presentations for the next meetings.  We made a selection of the students who were going to the  mobilities.

There was a meeting with the families of the students who were going to Italy.

In January, we began to create the portfolios.  Each student was responsible of a task.

The students presented the results of the questions and their work and tried to make students aware of eating healthily.

 In our second meeting in Italy in February, 2 teachers (Pilar Belloc and Jordi Coll) and the students ( Kathy Narváez, Félix Guijarro and Brenda Román) presented their tasks to the other Comenius partners, saw the twins’ presentations and analyse the similarities and differences. We talked about the blog design, the virtual guide and the photo album. They could also appreciate the delicious Italian cuisine, visit a pasta, a cookie and a yogurt factory.

When they came back, they presented all the tasks shown in Italy and tried to make the rest of students aware of the importance of healthy habits.

In March the students of the 1^st year of Baccalaureate studied the food Pyramid and healthy eating habits in the Science subject and made a comparative study between what they eat and what they should eat.  Unfortunately most of their pyramids were unhealthy examples, because our students don’t eat much fruit, vegetables, etc. and they really eat many sweets, chips, etc.  But it made the students think about what they should eat if they don’t want to have health problems in their lives.

All those materials prepared for the next meeting were sent to the Portuguese team in charge of the Virtual Guide.

In the meeting in Turkey,14-21 April, Patricio Analuiza, a student of Baccalaureate presented the comparative study made in the science class.   Our students who went to the meeting ( Patricio Analuiza, Tony Guijarro, Sergio Díaz, Isabel Serrano and Alba Löpez) could see their partners’ work and conclusions and compare the different cultures.  They could know a different culinary culture, country and be better aware of the importance of improving their eating habits.  We also decided the new tasks to do, for example a Pyramid contest in all the schools.  Now we are designing the pyramids and it is a good task to make students raise awareness of their eating habits.

All the students’ tasks are presented in powerpoint and can be seen in our school website and on the blog. In the students’ portfolio we can see the individual work of each student.  They work in teams and everyone has an important role in each task.  They work in a cooperative way. All the Comenius students explain their work and tasks to the rest of the students of the school in the English class, so they try to make the others aware of the importance of eating healthily.  On Saint George’s day we gave the diplomas to the students who had been to the meetings and during the ceremony we showed a powerpoint presentation of the meetings in Italy and Turkey to the rest of the students of our school.

All the activities are on the web of the school: www.iesjoanmiro.com and there was an article in the school magazine too.

To sum up, I want to say that this project is helping our students be aware of the importance of having  healthy eating habits and we hope that when it finishes, they will have change and improve their habits.

Written by Pilar Belloc

Greek students presentation in Turkey