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!
• 
• 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
• 

e-Activity: What do we eat for breakfast?

• 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?

• 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.
• 

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.
• 

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.
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