Our Healthy Life (LS-RO-349) - Teaching With Europeana

This lesson addresses the 13 – 14 years old students, learning English as a foreign language. In this lesson, sports and a healthy lifestyle are being reinforced through vocabulary, at the same time focusing on improving digital skills. The lesson is student-centred. However, collaboration among students and students and their families are highly encouraged and important. The teacher acts only as a guide and facilitator.

What students will learn?

One of the main goals of this learning scenario is to raise students’ awareness regarding a healthy lifestyle. Meanwhile, all the steps of this learning scenario are also supposed to guide the student to become a confident user of digital media and to express his/her opinions using English as a foreign language. What is more, the proposed activities will help students to understand how to use digital content in order to be able to create it themselves. Students will learn how to use Europeana platform for finding digital resources. They will also make use of different digital tools to collaborate: Google Docs, Canva. Finally, they will create their own digital content: posters, videos, brochures.

Feedback and assessment

At the end of the lesson, students will show their own digital content on Google Classroom where their works will be evaluated and they will get constructive feedback. There will be peer-to-peer evaluation and teacher evaluation. All students will leave a comment/feedback according to the following criteria: production/design/accuracy of the text written and creativity/collaboration/relevance of the topic/task given.

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barbarazadraveli says:

March 21, 2021 at 10:08 pm

Dear Emilia , i have implemented your LS with my class and i would like to thank you !!! It was a great learning teaching experince for me and my pupils !!! We greatly benefited and enjoyed working on all activities !!!

Emilia says:

January 13, 2022 at 6:39 pm

Thank you Barbara! I am glad my scenario was useful and your students enjoyed it.

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Dana says:

April 16, 2021 at 7:41 pm

Dear Emilia,
Your LS it is absolutely timely as we want to know more about health care and this is the reason why I decided to use is with my students.
Coming through the ongoing pandemic, healthy food and sport are the most important factors that affect the strength of the immunity system.
I think that we as online teachers should take responsibility and remind our students about active intra-school breaks at theirs flats, houses or gardens. Many of my students have arranged small or bigger sport corners and train their favorite physical exercises using their own available videos or applications every day.
We have also done online cooking together. It took us exactly two hours last week. It was pretty obvious that I had to distribute tasks among my 14-15 years students two days before planning the lesson. At my school we study on the MICROSOFT TEAMS App, so in the beginning the teams worked in five groups of four. It was easy because we use often breakout rooms in TEAMS meeting.
First, we used your recipe for apple jelly which connects generations and next we made modern smoothie. The presentations in the second part of the lesson were successful. It was lots of great fun as students are tired and overwhelmed by spending long hours sitting before screen.
By the way, my girls decided to prepare slices of the apple earlier and cool them down.
Studying vocabulary, phrases and communication in English is a pleasure if the subject is student-friendly. I appreciate your work and suggest you should make your lesson even in the pandemic – online circumstances.
Moreover, I have the impression that our students need lessons about healthy lifestyle in order to take care about mental health too. That is why I do appreciate your LS – it worked really well with my students.
Take care 🙂

April 28, 2021 at 10:56 pm

Dear Emilia ,
My SOI is already published so if you would like to have a look on how we implemented it in the time of the pandemic , you can see it here : https://teachwitheuropeana.eun.org/stories-of-implementation/soi-language/soi-english/implementation-of-our-healthy-life-soi-gr-209/ .
Also i would like to tell that the pupils reall loved working with Healthy food and Recipes and the parents were greatly invoved in the whole procedure .
The methodoly we used was a flipped classroom and blended learning as it was taught partly on line via webex and partly on an asynchronous platform we use in Greece for our lessons , called e-class of The Panhellenic School Network .
Anyway iam sending my thanks and gratidude on behalf of my pupils as well !

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