Osnovna škola "Lučac" Split

About the project

This project is about developing students' healthy eating habits. By the activities in the project, students will be informed about healthy nutrition and obesity, harms of junk food, importance of sport for a healthy body.

Students all around the world like eating fast food and junk food, drinking fizzy drinks so much. Besides they do not move very often because of computers and internet. As a result of this, a lot of children have many health problems such as obesity.

If we, the teachers, can teach our students at schools what they should or shouldn't eat, why they shouldn't eat junk food and why they should do sports we will be able to take a big step to prevent obesity.

AIMS

The aim of the project is to inform our students about;

1) Healthy nutrition and obesity,

2) What is healthy and unhealthy food and why we have to eat healthy food,

3) How the junk food gives harm to our bodies and what happens to our bodies if we eat unhealthy food always,

4) What we should eat in a day to be healthy,

5) The importance of sport in our lives.

WORK PROCESS

1) Introduction : 04-18/02/2019

a) Presentation of countries

b) Presentation of cities

c) Presentation of schools

2) Prepare a board about healthy nutrition on the school wall : 11-15/02/2019

3) Presentation about healthy nutrition and obesity : 11-22/02/2019

a) Craft activity 1: What is your favourite food ?

b) Survey : Do you like eating junk food ?

c) Survey : Do you have breakfast every morning ?

4) The Food Pyramid : Presentation of the food pyramid : 25/02- 08/03/2019

a) Craft activity 2 : Healthy menu ( 25-28/02/2019)

b) Craft activity 3 : Healthy plate ( 01-08/03/2019)

c ) Fruit Day activity : Schools organize a fruit day. They hang informative posters about fruit on school walls. Students make pictures with fruit. ( 11-15/03/2019)

5) Presentation about the importance of sport for a healthy life : 18-22/03/2019

a) Organize nature walk activity. (25-29/03/2019)

EXPECTED RESULTS

At the end of the project :

1) Project's TwinSpace will be created,

2) Students will be informed about healthy eating habits; what they should eat or shouldn't eat

3) Students will learn the harm of junk food,

4) Students will be informed about the importance of sport in our lives,

5) Students will have chance to use English in an international platform,

6) Students will learn about different countries, cities and schools around Europe,

7) Teachers will have chance to share their work and exchange ideas with colleagues from different schools and countries,

8) Students will work cooperatively in a group of international schools.