Students´impressions on the project 4

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Students´impressions on the project 2

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Gastronomy in ancient Greece  Click to see

Nutrition and cognitivie development

NUTRITION AND COGNITIVE DEVOLEPMENT AYTEN AKPINAR BIOLOGY TEACHER İSTANBUL BÜYÜKÇEKMECE VOCATION AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

The relationship

between nutrition and

learning is important

for people who care for

children.  Cognitive

development is a term

that covers human

perception, thinking ,

and learning.

Nutrition, genes, and environment are three major factors impacting cognitive development.

Because there are many factors that impact learning, scientists cannot say, “If you eat this, you will be smarter.”

However, the role of

good nutrition in child

development and

learning is important.

Nutrition during the

early years of a child’s

life is linked to   performance

in later years.

EXPERIENCES

EXPERIENCES

All in all, participating in the Comenius project was a great experience for me and all the teachers and students that participated in it. The students learned to work with their classmates and teachers after school and share the information they gathered in order to fulfill the project. They also had the chance to meet other students, different cultures, new places, different ways of living. Thus they  felt more mature and responsible, especially when they hosted students in their homes, they practiced their English and communicated via social media. Speaking English became a practice which they continued at school and they ended up doing that even during breaks!

There were moments that are unforgetable and others that were full of anxiety and disappointment. I will never forget our trip to Riccia and the warm welcome we received by the teachers and parents and above all Pina. Our visit to Romania was great, too. Valentina and the Principal and all the teachers welcomed us in a way that I will never forget. So friendly and warm! Meeting the French teachers and especially Catherine, Roman, Christophe and Frank was something  more than pleasure. We had the chance to discuss many things and come close. It is a pity that we may not meet again.
The best days for me personally were our visit to Italy, where we had our students together and the days we hosted our partners in Kilkis. Very tiring but so nice. I was really glad to host some teachers in my home and share with them some of our special dishes,our way of life, our hospitality.
On the other hand, I feel so disappointed with the Spanish partners. After a two-day travel there was no one to welcome us in Alcala, no one spoke English and I had to use gestures to be understood. And it was our first meeting! The meeting though at school with the teachers and students was in a way compensating.
Georgia Ioannidou

PLASTIC CAPS

                                This is what we managed to collect and do with plastic caps.

Presenting our project in Alcala la Real's city hall

Link to our prezi See
Video summary (Results and activities) See
Video made by students See

Gastronomy as an Educational Resource Comenius Project: my experience.

In the beginning, some of the people who decided to participate in this project (I count myself among them) weren’t sure about what this Comenius project was exactly going to be. We were told the project had to do with gastronomy and different countries working together to create different activities which would result in new and interesting educative experiences for pupils and teachers. It didn’t sound bad at all. As time went on, I had the chance to discover all the important advantages the project would bring about for my students and for me, as a teacher. 

The project has given us the opportunity to learn vocabulary and cultural aspects related to gastronomy, but it has been more than that: it has given students and teachers the opportunity to practice the language we are studying in class in context (English, although I have been surprised to see my students speaking French, Italian… they have felt free and highly motivated to use any language to communicate with other students in the different countries they have been to).  

So, the issue of “learning languages” has been correctly tackled. But I don’t want to consider only that as a positive aspect. What about “learning from other people”? What about “learning about life”? I have been surprised by the improvement in my students’ ability to connect with people from a different culture; my students’ ability to solve problems that they had to face in a new situation and in a new country; and my students’ ability to react to problems with a smile, showing a resolute attitude in order to find a solution.

In conclusion, I can honestly say that everything in this experience has been beneficial and enjoyable. I want to thank all the people who have participated in it; all the people who have worked to create a motivating and welcoming atmosphere during these years. I think the coordinator Jose Luis Ruiz has made an incredible job, as he has shown great organizational skills (it’s complicated to meet everybody’s requirements) and a good sense of humor, which has encouraged us to work together. Thanks everyone for an extraordinary experience!

Belén Ortega

Spanish teacher

Comenius

The first thing we’d like to say is that this trip was a good thing for all of us, we had wonderful relationships with our different penfriends and their families and friends. This experience has allowed us to have another vision of Turkey, nicer and warmer than what we usually see on TV news.
One week before leaving and going to Turkey, we  were really afraid of how we would be welcomed by our penfriends and their families, how they would be when we would be in their flats.

 Even if we had spoken to  them on facebook, and created connections, we were still nervous about other people. Some of us wrote all our feelings in our travel books during the trip.  Everything was easier when we arrived and met them: all the families and penfriends were waiting for us in Buyukcekmece. We spent the whole week with them: We visited the city, the big bazar and ate in a typical Turkish restaurant. We took some photos and practised sports with teachers, this was really pleasant and funny. In the afternoons we visited monuments, factories, went on horse riding. This was so great and we visited the old Istanbul too and even a mosque. In fact, in only one week we visited wonderful places and met wonderful people. We tasted all meals which were typical Turkish meals,  some of them had bad taste but others were really good.

In a nustshell this week was filled with happiness and amazing encounters, and we discovered a country  we didn’t know anything about ; besides, now, we know some words in Turkish.

                     

Belbecir Chahrazade
Paluszkiewicz Valentine
Schliwanski Audrey

Beautiful trip in Spain

I was very happy take part to this beautiful trip.

It was the first times that I went to Spain and especially take plane. I liked.

We were two French girl in the same family, her name is Angélique, I didn't know her, now she is my friend. My penpal,Clara and her family welcomed us with open arms.Clara is a beautiful and very nice girl. She introduced us her friends. We went to her school with others pupils.

During this week, I have met lot of people with different nationalities, it has allowed me to discover different ways of life and foreign languages.

I spoke Spanish and a little English. Spain is a beautiful country because we visited Alambra Palace and Alcala La Real's castle.

I am ok at remake this beautiful journey because I loved.

Thanks Comenius

Marion Czierna

Chocolate with insects !

The ideal gift for start the Entomophagy :

This box of 12 chocolates is the result of a collaboration between Micronutris and Master Chocolatier Guy Roux. It is a mix between the voluptuous chocolate and crunchy insect : they delight the curious. It is also an original gift to offer that will surprise your family as friends .

 

Chocolates and insects of quality :

Insects are edible insects born and bred in France by Micronutris , and fed from healthy and natural foods. Without Sugar and 100 % natural, these chocolates are manufacturing handcrafted by French.

 

Chocolate scorpions

After some years, the mondial population will have not food enought. So, we will eat  insects to save the world and because  it will have not meat for all the population. We suggest one of recipe of insects.

Recipe of chocolate scorpions :

First, we bake the scorpions on the stole and melt down the chocolate on the microwave at 40°C. Soak the scorpions on the chocolate. Wait they harden and you can eat them with a cup of coffee or a cup of tea.

Kadylak Marion                                               Guedj Mandy                                                                                  1S1

insects in gastronomy

In the future, the insects will be present in the gastronomy. The insects are source of proteins. The population eat more and more insects. There are differents recipes like this :

 

Grasshopper Fritters
from 'Ronald Taylor's "Butterflies in My Stomach"

3/4 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3/4 c milk
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 c grasshoppers
1 pt. heavy cream beaten stiff

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl. Slowly add milk and beat until smooth. Add egg and beat well.
Pluck off grasshopper wings and legs, heads optional. Dip insects in egg batter and deep fry. Salt and serve.
 

                                                                                                                         PRUVOST Corentin

MAKLES Carine

SION Justine

1S1

Recipe insect food.

Salad « cri-cri »

 

Ingredies

green salad

Redpepper

Tomato

grated carrots

diverse vegetables

Put crickets in decoration.

You will have an original salad !

Bunch of crickets.

 

 

Ingredies

3/5 crickets by 1 people

Tomato

Greenpepper

Oinon

Thyme

Put in this order : tomato, greenpepper, oinion, crickets (put in the oven about ten seconds)

Salt slightly and put the thyme and make roast in the ember.

 

Fried larvas.

Put the larvas in the hot oil.

You can put the larvas in the flour before the hot oil to make doughnuts

 

Bananas singed in insects and in rum

Ingredies

Banana

Crickets

Rum

In a frying pan put banana, put the crickets and the rum, make burn few minutes. You can eat with ice cream and whipped cream.

Eat insects !

                                

 

In world, we can eat today insects in differents forms : direct or indirect.

As there is less and less meat, the Scientifics showed that it was good eating insects which give vitamins B ;B2 ; and D.

This gastronomy that has already started is called « alternative food » and the insects are less expensive and more vitamined than meat.

 The insects are future !!!

Marry Cordowinius

An american breakfast

Do you want to take an american breakfast ? I suggest you locuts pancakes caramelized. In fact, because of population growth, we have to find solutions so as to feed everybody. Entomophagy is one of the more important one. Thanks to this, restaurants can propose you new receipts such as locusts pancakes caramelized which is a traditional breakfast in America, of course without insects. This is the french touch.
 

 

 

You can also savor a traditional japanese dish :

 

Pizz’Bugs

Ingredients (for a pizza 25 cm)

1 pizza dough
10 g of dried insects
5 small mushrooms paris
1 tomato coulis
black olives
grated cheese

Preparation

1.On pizza dough, spread the tomato sauce.
2.Trancher into thin strips Paris mushrooms and place on the pizza.
3.Add insects and dried black olives.
4.Parsemer grated cheese.
5.Mettre oven thermostat 7 (210 ° C) for 1/2 hour or more if necessary.

 

Pancakes Jig

Ingredients

 

Insects between 30 and 40 (go to the well for this recipe)
150 g flour
70 g chocolate
3 eggs
1 ½ glass of milk
sugar
butter
Put the cider cool and go!

1) Mix flour, eggs, milk, a little sugar and 20 g of butter into pieces in order to make a batter . Add the chopped insects ( at the last moment not to blacken ) and chocolate cut into small pieces .

2) Put everything in a small pan (for the pancake is very thick , about 1 cm) over high heat , then reduce to medium heat, and when the pancake took .

3) Cook without turning , and sprinkle with a little sugar a few minutes before it is cooked. Be careful not to over cook , so it does not dry out.

Serve warm for chocolate is still melting and insects still warm .

Axel Poullain, Alicia Libberecht, Alexandra Lefebvre, Céline Mayelle

Insects, food of future !

The permanent increase of the population will oblige us to eat insects in a few years. Indeed, cattle,pigs, sheeps and chicken farms require many space whereas the insects need less space.

                                                          small pea and these worms of flour

There is a restaurant in the Bretagne  the chief David Faure offers dishes with insects. In some countries the population already eat insects, for example in Mexico and in Colombia, the people eat the insects. An American expert has calculated that eight kilogram of crickets do 23479 calories either 43 hamburgers. While, we already eat about 500 grams of insects per year. May be that in 5 years the population will eat insects.

By Anthony, Maxence, Chloé, Manon, Audrey, Océane