INTRODUCTION

In this project we are going to focus on locally grown foods, which are basis for traditional cuisines of our regions and countries. We would also like to boast about our regional cuisine as a  tourist attraction and the purpose of travelling. All the project activities are supposed to help students learn more about tradition and culture of their region and exchange the information with peers from other partner schools.

SEPTEMBER TASKS

• Setting up and customizing  profiles on Twinspace.

In their profiles, students introduce themselves and answer the questions: What food means to you? Are you a foodie? What kind of food do you like and hate  eating?  Do you consider taking up a food-related job? Then the students visit the profiles of other members and they interact with each other. 

• Presentations of regions and schools.

Main page: Let's Get to Know Each Other

Subpage: Our regions and schools

Subpage: Teachers

Subpage: Students

Students introduce their schools and regions: Croatia (Omiŝ), Nafpaktos (Greece), Goleniów (Poland), Limanowa (Poland), Auch (France). Students and teachers introduce themselves.

OCTOBER TASKS

Main pages:

1. Quizzes 

Subpage: Culinary Vocabulary Quizzes

Students from each partner school prepare a quiz related to one type of the culinary word sets (15-30 words) for their partners:

• cooking verbs and techniques (Croatia), 
• cooking utensils and tools (France),
• food and ingredients (Greece),
• spices, herbs, and condiments (Italy),
• alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages (Poland, Goleniów),
• eating and serving utensils (Poland, Limanowa).

2. Transnational Virtual Restaurants/Blog Entries Used for the Common Tasks

Students of each school set up virtual restaurants with a name, logo and traditional menu.  On this main page are presented the restaurants of each country which promote regional cuisines.

Subpage:

A dish with a regional/certified product and a blog entry about it.

Chatting about the food product.

3. Surveys

Subpage: October blog entries survey

NOVEMBER TASKS

• A visit to a food festival or food fair   
• A dish with a product from the food festival (a film and a blog entry about it)
• Advertising slogans for the food festivals presented by other schools
•  Question videos related to the food festival

Subpages: Food festivals, Dishes or desserts based on the food festival products

Main page: Q&A Videos

Subpages: Treat team, Wine team, Wheat team, Honey team, Garlic team

Students visit a food festival or a food fair and make a presentation about it. They use Tricider tool to write advertising slogans which promote festivals shown by other schools. Then, they vote for the best slogan.

Students make a dish with a product from the festival they visited and show the cooking process. If they cannot make the dish at school, they describe how it can be made.

Then students are divided in mix teams. In a video, some students ask questions related to their festival foods and the others answer.

DECEMBER TASKS

• An e-book about Christmas traditions and food made together by the students of all partner schools. Video presentations about Christmas traditions and food.
• Optional:  A video/ a presentation which shows how to cook a Christmas dish and a blog entry about the dish on Restaurant page.

Main page: Common Tasks

Subpage: Sharing Christmas traditions and Foods

Main page: Transnational virtual restaurants/Blog entries used for the common tasks

Subpage: Sharing traditional Christmas recipes 

Students of each partner school contribute to making a StoryJumper e-book about Christmas traditions and food of their countries and regions. They can also make videos  and/ or blog entries on these topics and post them on the page with the virtual restaurants on it.

JANUARY TASKS

• Cooking class or workshop with an experienced cook or chef.  
• Interview with an experienced cook or chef.  
• Quiz on cooking skills and techniques.

Main page: Common Tasks

Subpage: Sharing cooking skills and techniques

Main page: Quizzes

Subpage: Quiz on cooking skills and techniques

Students take part in a cooking class or workshop with an experienced cook or a chef at their schools. They create a step-by-step visual documentation (photos or a film) of the cooking process on a Padlet board and they describe (voiceover) their partner schools’ cooking process. A professional cook or a chef is interviewed by students. Students take part in a knowledge quiz based to the knowledge gained.

FEBRUARY TASKS

• Presentations of carnival traditions and customs.

Main page: Transnational virtual restaurants/Blog entries used for the common tasks

Subpage: Carnival celebrations (Candlemas. The tradition in France, Carnival in Poland. Fat Thursday, Greek carnival season- Apokries.)

Students present their carnival traditions and customs in videos and descriptions.             

MARCH TASKS

• A visit to an open-air museum, an ethnographic park or a food museum.
• A dish based on an old recipe.

Main page: Transnational virtual restaurants/Blog entries used for the common tasks

Subpage: Visiting an open-air museum, an ethographic park or a food museum

Subpage: Sharing old recipes

Students visit an open-air museum, an ethnographic park or a food museum. In a presentation they show  a tool or device used for growing crops, land cultivation, harvesting or cooking equipment from the past.

They cook a dish based on an old recipe, film the process of cooking,  upload the film and write a blog entry there about their trip and the dish.

APRIL TASKS

• Easter celebrations
• Discussion about healthy food
• Internship abroad

Main pages:

1. Transnational virtual restaurants/Blog entries used for the common tasks

Subpage: A 'farm-to-table'restaurant

2. Surveys

Subpage: An internship abroad

Subpage: Farmer and Baker (France)

Students of partner schools make together a presentation about Easter traditions and food (each school provides their materials) of their countries. They read a story of a man who tries to produce food using traditional methods of farming and take part in a discussion about healthy food. They also express their opinions on doing internship abroad.

 MAY TASKS

• Project dissemination- exhibitions, events at school.
• Knowledge quiz.
• Final product
• Project evaluation and farewells.

Main pages:

1. Common Tasks

Subpage: Final product: our E-magazine

2. Project dissemination and Evaluation.

Subpages: Kahoot quiz

Subpage: My impressions after the project

Students create an E-magazine in mixed teams. Students take part in a knowledge quiz (Kahoot).They are also asked to evaluate the project in a few sentences. Project outcomes are disseminated at school events, presentations or exhibitions. Saying goodbyes.