Open twinning Mooc: Unit 4. Collaboration in eTwinning

Unit 4. Collaboration in eTwinning

Here one of the activities regarding the project: Health: starts from breakfast! What do we eat for breakfast? You can realize this activity after an activity of icebreaking and an activity to introduce school, city and Country!

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Caption: : start with breakfast

e-Activity: What do we eat for breakfast?

Age of students: 14/18 Language: English Subjects: Nutrition science, Physical Education, Health Studies, Biology, Food industries Deadline: two months Web tools: twinspace, realtimeboard, madmagz

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Aims: 1.         Work in team to identify and discriminate foods suitable for healthy breakfast. 2.         Understand that breakfast is a basic need to face the day. 3.         Become aware of proper nutrition 4.         improve ICT Skills; 5.         improve specific foreign language; 

e-Activity: What do we eat for breakfast?

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e-Activity: What do we eat for breakfast?

Work Process (1)1 step: students have to read some articles and see some videos (selected by teachers) posted on twinspace about the importance to have breakfast and in the same time a healthy breakfast. 2 step: students have to comment in apposite forum (twinspace) about what they read and to tell if they have breakfast or not, what they eat for breakfast, and comment at least three posts of their peers.

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Work process

3 step: students have to work in group realizing a mindmap with realtimeboard.com. They have to start from “Healthy breakfast” and indicate benefits to have breakfast, healty food, food to avoid, how much to eat, etc… 4 step: to conclude this activity, students have to work together to prepare a short ebook of recipes of healthy breakfast using madmagz.com (at least 5 different recipes of healthy breakfast) where each partner provides a contribute with his typical food.

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Expected results

A more complete knowledge of how to classify and recognize foods, necessary for a correct and healthy breakfast, according to their composition, capacity for teamwork, knowledge of different cultures and different ways to solve problems, improve foreign language.http://alex1967.edublogs.org/

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