This document provides an overview of an eTwinning project called "For My Health" that aims to enhance students' healthy lifestyle skills. Through monthly activities, students will improve their digital skills, foreign language abilities, internet safety, collaboration skills, entrepreneurship, and social skills. The project coordinator is from a technical high school in Romania. It utilizes various online tools like TwinSpace, Facebook, and videos to facilitate collaboration between partner schools in 16 countries on topics related to health, nutrition, and disease prevention. The project is integrated into the students' food technology curriculum and aims to develop their knowledge and awareness of healthy living.
1. FOR MY HEALTH PROJECT 2019
ETWINNING PROJECT
Coord. Popa Alina Mirela – Liceul Tehnologic de Industrie Alimentara G.E.Palade Satu Mare
Scurtă descriere
Our students will enhance healthy life skills with the activities done per month through our
project. They will also be competent in digital competence, improve foreign language skills, use
the internet safely and consciously, collaborate with other partners, be entrepreneur, productive
and have social skills. Furthermore, we will arouse our students’ interests and improve their
success using web2 tools, virtual reality practice so that we will teach the curriculum efficiently.
The project`s page is : https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/home .
Legături către rezultate proiect
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/pages/page/513070
https://for-myhealth.wixsite.com/site
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/pages/page/553816
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/66586885/FOR-MY-HEALTH#page/54
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/pages/page/630364
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/pages/page/630378
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/pages/page/630382
https://en.calameo.com/books/004402734b15db8b58098
https://issuu.com/emrullahkizil/docs/combinepdf
https://www.flipsnack.com/nesrinkurt/0-d-n-t-r-ld.html
https://issuu.com/emrullahkizil/docs/combinepdf
https://issuu.com/home/published/en__-for_my_health
Inovaţie şi creativitate pedagogic
„For my health ” is a special collaborative etwinning project, involving the students lead by
teachers. It has a lot of partners and the work was more then fruitfull with exchanging our
experience and learning a lot one from each other partners` during the activities in this project as
based-gaming learning. Project had the aim of improving skills that are integrated in curriculum,
also with accent on colaborative work in teams and in class with students and teachers, together.
The activities are very diverse and the presentations of them were lead very syntetic, professional
and clear by the main coordinator of all, one teacher from Turkey. Pedagogical methods are
focused on developing the skills for searching and studying by their own, to be aware about
health in general , style of healthy living, diseases and effects. Also the strategies of teaching
through this project were organising groups, collaboration in the class and between teams of the
project, individually, practical activities and many collaborative and disemination actions. Their
2. work results are presented using various education digital web2.0 tools – collage-photos, logos
voted , videos, quizzis, genialy, picture-collage, questionairs and reports of their collaborative
work. The project has organised pages created, with many parts and spaces added for
presentation like: introduction, web-site of the project; page of IT tools used, presenting schools,
partners, students teams; the obligatory netiquette rules to follow; the plans for the monthly
work on monthly theme announced. We have worked collaborative, for final products of the
project, questionnaires, surveys, the reports for the common e-books with all the work get
together. The project had activities for dissemination the project in classes, school and comunity.
During thematic activities the students are improving knowledges in class or at home. The
project has practical activity about celebrations: Tubercoulosis Day in January, Safer Internet
Day in February, Water-Day in March, Nutritien Day in April, Etwinning-Europe Celebration
Day in May, as events for this project. The obtained results are presented in different ways using
web-tools technics get together all the time in padlets or genialy tool. The project included
surveys for students and teachers about satisfaction regarding project and also the appreciations
of the parents and other visitors .
Integrare în curriculum
Project is integrated in Food Technology domain - technological Curriculum Area- 11th grade-
which is students` specific domain of study - Biochemistry subject, Food Hygiene, Nutrition
and Quality of Food. But the targets are also enriching knowledges from other disciplines which
are: chemistry, biology, personal hygiene, creativity, English language, IT tools, discipline of life
behaviour, Counseling Hours. In the project there is a page with disciplines involved in project.
The main skills for students to develope are practical and daily knowledges about a health and
possible threats of disseases. In the same time it appeals for understanding some food
components and biological aspects-organs functions, or medical issues-diseases of the body
function and a discipline of daily routine life, all this, with influences on the healthy body
functions. Students have worked in school hours or technological lab-classes and the project`s
work was correlated with theoretical knowledges presented at Food Technology Modules . Some
of the work was translated in English at school or in lab-classes in the same time with different
presentations sessions for project. In this way we followed to improve the English language
skills working together in translating and more. In order to make them to be interresed the
students searched on the internet about components, nutritional quality, main nutrients and
components with influence on health, obesity, disseases and other issues, the importance of
sports in their life, for understanding the positive aspects of a good nutrition and active life. Also
to be aware and conscience the importance of creating or mentaining a well organised daily
routine and discipline.
Comunicare şi schimburi între şcolile partenere
The project is a very interactive one and we were in touch all the time with partners via
Twinspace, Facebook-page, Twin-Forum, Whats-up for teachers. Our project has a very
organised Twinspace where were presented all the steps to follow in plan`s project and the
subjects of the parts, by each partner. Every partner country has fulfilled its part according to the
monthly and deadlines program of the project. We have exchange information about our work by
making folders on Twinspace materials and uploaded work. Informative messages and deadlines
3. messages related with monthly activities were send by email between teachers and in Latest
Updates News, also with feedbacks responds. All the time we were in contact and we received
feedbacks of our work posted on the Forum page. The communication was individual on padlets
or in groups of students for their work, Twin-Forum space, through presented materials, logo-
voted, reports analysis and videos, who presented their part-work in project. During the project,
schools partners had interacted in padlets, Facebook and the dialog between students using
Twinspace and Forum area on the platform. For a better interaction each partner presented some
relevant activities from their schools related to project as seminars in school, events outide the
school, activities in class about project and monthly events with photos and collage of activities.
Student-members of teams correspondents on live-etwinning-chats event from home or from
school time program. We have approached the new-based-gaming learning with cospaces tools.
Mails, Facebook and Whats-Up Teachers Group were usefull for each partner which made a
good communication and encouraging opinions and share work in time. Teachers were in contact
also on Live-Chat series of webinars- sessions –meeting events during the whole project - for
establish the plan, for apreciacions, for disemination activities, for sharing the events, pictures,
news and other discussions. The communication was more than efficient. The project has many
surveys -feedbacks after each step for students and teachers, too. In this way we managed the
impact of the project on every member involved.
Colaborare între şcoli partenere
Collaboration between partners was very efficient and we were all the time in contact on Whats-
up group, coordinating all steps during monthly stages. Each partener has follow the pages of the
project and the monthly activites were uploaded. We have communicated with partners via
twinspace page, whatsup, bulletin-twinspace, Latest updates and live connection through Chat.
Every work was shared and commented on twinspace of the project. We have approached the
new-based-gaming learning with cospaces tools. All news were easily seen on twinspace and the
correspondenting informations and steps, were just in time. In this order we have created chats
information meetings, creating etwinner membership, students-school-country introductions,
panel preparations, organising seminars about project, posted logo and posters about our work in
the prepared sections on twinspace and presented materials picArt collage and worksheets
attached, videos, making reports, publish e-book of our work and the final common big
magazine, as the final product, also preparing short videos about the project works` with
partners and schools` activities. The final step is the evaluation of the project and the final
apreciations from all and from the visitors of the project, where students and teachers express
their opinion and thoughts about entire fruitfull project work on a surveymonkey tool or
questionaires. The opinion about all work of the project was registered on twinspace Forum at
special final section.
Utilizarea tehnologiei
This project had the aim to improve IT-technologies skills for students using online techniques.
The web2.0 tools were diverse and innovative for teachers and for students, too. We have
learned from each other new interesting tools and also games that we used in the project to
express the steps of the project. Students are developing their computer skills and also discover
or trainning new techniques and web tools, for presenting the work. The work was colaborative
and was proved with many pictures with students working on the class individual or in teams on
4. the space of online tools using diverse techniques of editing like: photos-activity, padlets,
coSpaces-games, short movies about activities . All the materials are organised in clear folders.
Students have trainned with more web 2.0 tools and have choosen the easy one for them which
made the presentation on the project and could be added on twinspace. More Web 2.0 Tools
were used as: collage-photos, info-introduction in padlets, boards of the project in padlets, logos
in padlets, impressions and reports, padlet.com, animoto.com for short videos, googlemaps,
biteable, powtoon, kizoa, quizziz, logmaker, bookcreator, picArt, canva, calameo, smallpdf,
voki, ourbox, flipsnack, learning-apps, kahoot, surveymonkey, googleforms and many more .
The project has a dedicated page with IT tools that were used during project by partners
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80328/pages/page/521989
Rezultate, impact şi documentaţie
Project has the objectives for improving health between youngsters. The project achieved its
objectives by increasing the students` interest and motivation on learning by researching in a
daily attractive and important activity. Their awareness for healthy living gained good aspects
and perspectives. Students become more confident in their behaviour regarding their meals, they
started to be aware about diseases correlated with the habits in eating, also with the necesity of
being active and sportive. They have grown their responsabilities for an open-minded approach
about their living all the time. Being integrated in learning national curricula as an added activity
to the Biochemistry Modules, through proposal activities the project develops a multiskills being
interconected with many other disciplines so important in future`s career as : professional
profile-food technician, English Language, IT-competences, last two absolutly necesary for
professional future. The activities and the activating methods were approached a high utility and
curiosity, success wish, motivating students for a final good result and self-satisfaction. The
students were engaged new contact experiences, changing cultural interesting informations and
reports about others life, cultures and other schools system. They gained knowledges,
experience, developed skills, trainning English language, learn how to research something
usefull for all life-living. They have been worked with responsabilities that were shared during
collaboration and contact with parteners. The coordonating teachers had a very good
colaboration and contact with all partners in meetings like students had in chat-events. The
school has the advantage of landing to a complex system of learning tasks through eTwinning
project. The project was diseminated in school, between the participant members from different
classes and had a high appreciation. The project received also encouragements and support.
Other prises:
All 16 countries received European and National for Quality Certification .