The main topic of the project “Traditional Food” is gastonomy, a topic which connects us in one way or another. Students, teachers and parents will work together to find out more about traditional dishes of their partners.

• Subjects: Art, Citizenship, Cross Curricular, Foreign Languages, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT
• Languages: EN - RO
• Pupil's age: 4 - 14
• Tools to be used:
• Aims: -to promote and highlight the diverse gastronomy in Europe due to its cosmopolitan make up and history and to encourage... read more-to promote and highlight the diverse gastronomy in Europe due to its cosmopolitan make up and history and to encourage the exchange of experiences, traditional recipes, stories and dishes; - to encourage the exchange of a common language: food; -to promote cooperation among the European countries; -to improve the students’ digital competences of using the modern multimedia instruments; hide
• Work process: 1. The coordinating teachers will create the TwinSpace for the project "Traditional Food" - April 9, 2010 2. The coordinating teachers... read more1. The coordinating teachers will create the TwinSpace for the project "Traditional Food" - April 9, 2010 2. The coordinating teachers will invite students and teachers to TwinSpace - April 9, 2010 3. The coordinating teachers will present the project "Traditional Food" to the students and teachers. Students will be taught to use TwinSpace. - April 16, 2010: - The teachers and students will create their own profile. - The students will communicate with their partners using blogs from “Pupils Corner” and the chat on TwinSpace. - The students will create a Wiki page in the "Who Am I" with personal information and photos (The name of Childern page: RO-first name or TR-first name) 4. Each student will upload on TwinSpace, in the "Traditional recipes" section, a document with a traditional recipe (*.doc) using native language and English translating and a photo of that food. They will fit this document in the right folder. – April 30, 2010 5. The teachers involved in the project will translate all the recipes in the native language and will make a small cookbook in English and in partners’ languages (writing and electronically form) – May 16, 2010 6. Students and teachers will distribute cookbook to their parents, teachers, to others colleagues, to representatives of the local community and will ask them to give it a score of 1 to 10. – May 21, 2010 7. Students and parents will prepare a traditional food selected from recipes posted . They will take pictures and post them in the "I like your food." Picture post will be called like food prepared score obtained. – June 4, 2010 Evaluate food prepared as follows: - Taste: 1-50 points - Appearance: 1-20 points - Time required: 1-10 points - Price: 1-10 points - Difficulty: 1-10 points 8. An exhibition of traditional food will be made of each partner school. Dishes will be tasted by the visitors who will vote for the tastiest. – June 7-8, 2010 9. In the end it will make the TOP 10 FOOD: the delicious, handsome, quick, cheap, simple food. – June 12, 2010 hide
• Expected results: The end product: a brochure with traditional food wich will be distributed to the parents, teachers, representatives of the local... read moreThe end product: a brochure with traditional food wich will be distributed to the parents, teachers, representatives of the local community by each partner school. Evaluation: Some questionnaires for evaluating the recipes and the products (food) will be distribute to the students, teachers, parents. The cooking session will be awarded marks the most successful dishes prepared. Impact on students: - awareness of their own cultural identity; -acknowledge the similarities and differences between the traditional gastronomy the partner country; - increase the TIC abilities; Impact on teachers: - understand the cultural connections between the European countries, the importance of team work within the project and encourage other colleagues’ contribution to it; • Impact on the local community: - increase the reputation of the school in the community; - the parents’ participation in a larger extent to the school life; hide

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