COMENIUS PROJECT

COMENIUS PROJECT

Tuesday 30 October 2012

INTEGRATION INTO ONGOING ACTIVITIES

The project will be integrated with the national curriculum as follows;
- Communication in the mother tongue through the reading of books regarding the chosen topics, the analysis of texts, lexis, proverbs, tongue-twisters, poems and fairy tales that help improve eating habits, preparation of questionnaires and workbooks.
- Communication in French and/or English through the reading of brief texts, translations, correspondence with exchange students.
- Sciences; Planting seeds to discover how food is grown and processed until it reaches the consumer.
- Healthy eating habits. Studying the nutritional value of food items to encourage a healthy diet .
- Maths: data processing, tables, graphs and the comparison of values
- Information Technology: Preparation of a DVD about recipes and other interesting features of participating countries: the use of the Internet for research work and  communication with exchange students.
- Art: Food is a feature in some art works. Analysis of the works of Arcimboldi, and other European artists, that contain images of  banquets in taverns, dinners of artists and the history of the period they lived in; the observation of still life paintings.  Research on images showing the logo of the Comenius project. All pupils will get a European flag, which will be used in some activities and later be kept as a keepsake of the project.
- Music. The value of music as a social activity. The presence of food in some important works by famous European musicians, such as Verdi and Puccini
- Sport and Physical Education: Learning about one’s own physical health.
- History: Food in certain periods of history
- Geography: learning about and analysing  the environment, food production and eating habits.

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