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LESSON 2- Gymnázium P.J.Šafárika, Rožňava, SLOVAKIA

  • Chosen product- POTATO

    Traditional Slovak meals prepared from potatoes- halušky, pirohy, haruľa, placky, lokše,...

    Lesson objectives:

    At the end of the lesson students will be able to:

    • know the history of potato,
    • make different recipes which include potatoes,
    • identify the benefits of consuming potatoes,
    • develop their language skills (after listening to the video they will fill in the quiz and make their own compositions in writing), artistic and ICT skills (preparing videos and powerpoint presentations with different recipes)

    Potatoes have played a much more significant role in our history than just that of the dietary staple we have come to know and love today. Leo Bear-McGuinness share how without the potato, our modern civilization might not exist at all.

     

    Watch the TED-Ed video below:

    After watching the video,

    Step 1- complete the quiz:

    https://kahoot.it/challenge/03819848?challenge-id=54e2b15d-b874-431a-ab70-f35347f65cbb_1605959369094

    PIN: 03819848

    Make a printscreen of your results and attach it to Materials Section/ Pictures/ Gymnázium P.J.Šafárika/your name

     

    and

    Step 2- write your opinion on "How the potato changed the world".

    Step 3- at home, prepare any of the traditional Slovak meals including potatoes (choose one) and include the recipe in the form of a video or a powerpoint presentation (Note: if you cannot prepare the meal yourself, ask yor mum / grandma,... to help you but make sure she agrees with filming. Or, do not show the whole body in the video/presentation, just hands).

     

  • Your opinions on "How the potato changed the world"

    Juraj Fafrák, Gymnázium P.J.Š., Slovensko

    In the past, potatoes were quite useful. They were healthy, easy to buy and grow and tasty, so it was one of the best food sources for peasants and poor people. Without Spanish people bringing the potatoes, European population would be much smaller nowadays, as it is now. If, for instance, we take away potatoes like 200 years ago, many people would die. As an example for that is the Irish Potato Famine. On the other hand, if Europeans never found potatoes, the population would be smaller, but they would still survive, like they did before. In Slovakia, most of the traditional food are made from potatoes mainly, or you serve them with many food, so in my country it was very famous and everybody ate them. To conclude it, I think that it’s good that we have potatoes, but we don’t need them that much.

    Vladimír Tešlár, Gymnázium P.J.Šafárika, Slovensko

    In my opinion the potatoes were and still are universal crop, that is easy to take care and doesn't need so much cooking to be fully edible and delicious. Of course people in Europe and other parts of the World, exept of America had grain, vegetables, fruits and many ways to overcome their hunger, but none of them were so nutritiently rich as potatoes. Grain was relatively complicated to process into something edible as bread without manufactures and vegetables with fruits were just full of water and not very sustaineble. That's why we could say that potatoes were like gift from heaven for Europe back in a days. Even though it was eaten mainly by peasants. These potatoes created enviroment where people no longer feared famines and could focus on creating the future we know nowdays.

    Beáta Oravcová, Gymnázium P.J.Š., Slovensko

    Potatoes were always practical and cheap. They probably had a little effect on our history. They were definitely amazing for the working people since potatoes are rich in nutrients and they probably saved a lot of food by using them. On the other hand, if we wouldn't have potatoes, I think we would find other food that is just as high in nutrients as potatoes are. The fact that people used potatoes as decorative garden plants is very amusing, but not that shocking since the plant itself looks lovely and I can see how some people would want to have it in their house. It's funny how it took so long for the potatoes to spread in Europe considering how much we use them now. I don't think potatoes had such a big effect on us. Overall, in my opinion potatoes are great but not as important as some claim.

    Student Raluca-Ionela Bălan, D. P. Perpessicius Pedagogical High School, Brăila, România

    Potatoes have played a significant role in our history, because without it our modern civilization might not exist at all. If Europeans never find the potatoes, for example, then the population would be smaller. I think that many people love potatoes, because they are easy to cook and delicious ( french fried, baked, boiled), but also a cheap and easily accessible food

    Özlem BENLİGİL, Ayvacık AİHL, TURKEY

    “They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars.” says Matt Damon in sci-fi blockbuster The Martian. Mark Watney, who was left behind on Mars, has to survive by himself and successfully does so by growing potatoes. Indeed, the potato is a quite unpretentious crop to grow; therefore it is being produced ubiquitously throughout the world.
    The fact that potato changed the world implies many factors. For example, rise of the West in terms of European superiority. European dominance over African continent is a factor that arose from the development of abundant food production due to fortunate climate and geographical advantages. Potatoes permitted northern Europe to assert dominion over most of the world (1750-1950) by feeding rapidly growing population. Also, the spread of potatoes to European fields has enormous value in times of war as it used to reduce its destructive consequences.

    Calevi Federico, student of Terni

    For me, the potatoes changed the world because they are a very easy food to cultivate and they can be cultivate in all countries of the world. They are not expensive and very delicious. I love potatoes and they are very full of starch, and the starch is healthy.
    With potatoes you can do very many plates.

    Marco Bruno

    Hello, in my opinion potatoes were and are very important for man because they gave birth to many agricultural activities in the world. If there were no potatoes, many other foods would not even exist; therefore potatoes are very important to make not all but a part of the European economy turn around. As seen in the video around 1750, many farmers began to grow potatoes mainly because they helped men find food in the difficult industrial revolution.

    Andrea Finocchio 1AIT

    The fact that without the potato, modern civilization wouldn’t even exist makes me think that even that small things that we underestimate may have changed the world so much, and the fact that this vegetable has been useful and almost essential in the industrial period is really shocking. Then thank the potatoes for all we have today!

    Alina Mičkiová, Gymnázium P.J. Šafárika, Rožňava, SLOVAKIA

    I think that potatoes were and still are really important for us. There are so many different meals that are made of potatoes! And they are delicious and healthy as well. People can choose in what form they would like to eat them: as fries or chips, or as something more healthy, for example potato salad, which is very popular in some European countries.

    Bianka Šoltésová Gymnázium P.J.Š., Slovakia

    I think potatoes are important and good for our life because of their price, good nutrition, and the fact that it's easy to take care of. I guess that the potatoes were quite useful in the past because of this and the thing that they used the potatoes as a decorative plant was funny to me. Personally, I love potatoes because of their taste and the fact that we can do so many meals with them and they are not that hard to make is very good.

    Francese Raffaele students

    For me, the potatoes changed the world because saved many lives and world hunger decreased.

    Teacher Pınar BELLİGÜN, Gölkent Secondary School, Adıyaman, TURKEY

    I think potato is among the most used foods of the world. It is not only universal but it also has many unique recipes all over the world. So as you stated in the video you can find foods all over the world. It is hard to believe for us how can a Peruvian food can influence the world such dramatically. From today’s perspective, the outrage—threats of legal action, whispers of war, editorials on the Guano Question—is hard to understand. But agriculture was then “the central economic activity of every nation,” as the environmental historian Shawn William Miller has pointed out. “A nation’s fertility, which was set by the soil’s natural bounds, inevitably shaped national economic success.” In just a few years, agriculture in Europe and the United States had become as dependent on high-intensity fertilizer as transportation is today on petroleum—a dependency it has not shaken since.

    Student Dilek Çelik, Ahmet Alper Dinçer Anatolian High School, Gölbaşı/Ankara

    I didnt think, potatoes has long history. I didnt know it was such an important food as we often eat it as chips or fries. Potatoes saved people from starvation. Who knew potatoes save people from starvation? Thanks to this amazing presentation and video, I will now be able to eat potatoes more consciously Im going to go look into it some more. Thank you for raising my interest!

    Student Ayberk Bostan AHMET ALPER DİNÇER ANADOLU LİSESİ GÖLBAŞI/ANKARA

    potato is a really delicious food and I think it is enjoyable to grow in a hearty and many kinds of dishes can be made in this project potato is beautifully explained

    Casserole recipe by İsmail Enes from Turkey

    Materials ;
    700 grams of lamb meat
    3 tablespoons olive oil
    1 medium onion
    2 cloves of garlic
    2 carrots
    1.5 tablespoons tomato paste
    2 medium potatoes
    1 teaspoon salt
    1/2 teaspoon Black pepper
    1 cup hot water

    Preparation;
    Let's take the olive oil into our pot, add the meats and mix it when it is warm, then add the chopped onion and garlic and mix it, add the carrot and tomato paste that we cut into slices when the meats begin, and finally add the potatoes, salt, pepper and hot water that we cut into large pieces to dye and close the lid of the pan without mixing. Let's boil for 15-20 minutes.

    Then, put the food in the pot in casseroles and cook for 30 minutes in a preheated 200 degree oven. Our meal is ready.

    Studente Alessandro Massoli 1 AIT

    Whit this video I learned that without potatoes today we probably would not have everything we have.
    Both from the industrial point of view and from the point of view of the population.
    The potatoes are of Peruvian origin and were then used to feed the Inca people, while, when they were imported into Europe, these became, after many years, of fondamentale importance for the population, which was now almost destroyed by famine of that period.

    Gabriele rinaldi

    only now can I understand how important potatoes have been for humans above all because they have fed many poor men and also because without potatoes most likely the world today would not even have existed.

    Viktor leon Moretti 1AIT

    in these videos I learned that potatoes were first grown by Peruvians for their nutritional characteristics, but despite the fact that potatoes were vital for the Inca, the europeans snubbed them and it was more than 200 years before potatoes became a source of food throughout Europe. having large quantities of cheap potatoes the farmers no longer suffered grain famines so the population increased. the population was growing, it was nourished and sustainable able to support the new industries that led us to the modernota through the industrial revolution.

    Francesco Beceri 1 AIT

    potatoes have somehow changed the world of the food base. It was cultivated 8000 years ago by the Peruvians. I like potatoes and they contain vitamins, proteins, essential fatty carbohydrates etc ...
    At first the potatoes were not accepted in Europe and people used the potato plants as decoration and this seemed very funny to me as now people eat them a lot

    (Nicolò Sparamonti) Potatoes

    In my opinion potatoes have chenged the world because they're very cheap and easy to cultivate, so poor people could survive.
    Today, potatoes are used for example for the diet and there are a lot of methods to cook them: roast, fried, boiled... A lot of potatoes!

    Denisa Pasat,Student

    Potatoes were and are important to man, because they have given rise to many agricultural activities in the world. If potatoes had not been discovered, many other foods would not exist, so they are very important for running a part of the European economy. Around 1750 many farmers began growing potatoes, mainly because they helped humans find food in the difficult industrial revolution.

    Alessio Passeri 1AIT

    the potato, is cultivated for the first time in the world in Peru after 200 years expanded throughout Europe. today the potato has changed the world because it is a food rich in proteins and vitamins and it is very easy and fast cultivate it

    Caner S, Ayvacık AİHL, Çanakkale

    Potato is a plant that changed world history. It has devastated a country as it has saved a continent, causing its people to starve to death. The story of the potato going back and forth at these two extremes is intertwined with the social history of human beings. Although the discourse that "he changed the history of the world" sounds exaggerated, historical findings show us this.

    Ecrin, Ayvacık AİHHS, Çanakkale, Turkey

    Potatoes are rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which make them very healthy. Studies have linked potatoes and their nutrients to a variety of impressive health benefits, including improved blood sugar control, reduced heart disease risk and higher immunity.
    The potato is a moderate source of iron, and its high vitamin C content promotes iron absorption. It is a good source of vitamins B1, B3 and B6 and minerals such as potassium, phosphorus and magnesium, and contains folate, pantothenic acid and riboflavin.