The main objective is the development of continuous learning in a European collaborative environment and the improvement of healthy lifestyle skills with positive effects on the relation between the professionals in education, families and communityin order to form a strong personality of the children/teenagers. The project “Our precious plants” is accomplished by four schools (GER, RO, IT, SP). In this project we want to support our youngsters in acquiring and internalizing the healthy lifestyle skills necessary for the improvement of their life. With our project we want to focus on the value that lies in our nature and to make use of it. We want our students to live in relation with our environment and to appreciate our nature and the plants that grow. We need our nature to nourish us. Our project includes nutritional science, theoretical and practical knowledge that shall help students with future food choices. We want students to see the importance of good nutrition and realizing what our plants from Europe provide. Science, especially the human body and the quality of plants is part of the project. We examine plants, extract and write tables about their goodness. Gardening and home economics are a big part of the project. Students learn how to grow different plants and will monitor how plants of the partner schools grow in the different locations. We will process freshly made food and create new recipes enrichend by the ideas that we come up with through our partnership. In our project students will communicate about nutrition and work with our nature's gifts. In language classes students get prepared with the necessary vocabulary and present each other their work. Creative tasks capture the beauty in pieces of art. During the two years the partners bring in their expertise and do complementary work as well as comparing their results on identical tasks. Different groups of students across the school are involved in the project, whereas groups of six to eight students with two or three teachers travel to the transnational meetings. The transnational meeting in Italy focuses on extracting the goodness of plants and what our body gets from different plants. The transnational meeting in Romania focuses on planting, tecniques and requirements. This learning event will provide the partners with good knowledge for school gardening in their respective schools. The transnational meeting in Spain focuses on harvesting and processing mediteranean fruit and vegetables. Students learn about the healthy impact and create scrumptious recipes. The transnational meeting in Germany focuses on harvesting and processing berries and herbs. Students learn about the healthy impact and create scrumptious recipes. On a long-term basis students of all partner schools improve their language skills, their awareness of nutrition, their knowledge about plants and their body and about planting, harvesting and processing. In transnational meetings they aquire knowledge that they share with their schoolmates after returning home. They communicate and cooperate in teams using ICT. They broaden their horizon and increase their job opportunities.
The main objective of our project ‘Our precious plants’ focused on the development of continuous learning in a European collaborative environment and the improvement of healthy lifestyle skills. We expect also positive effects on the relation between the professionals in education, the families and the community in order to support the teenagers to form a strong personality. The project “Our precious plants” was accomplished by four schools (GER, RO, IT, SP). In this project we supported our youngsters in acquiring and internalizing some healthy lifestyle skills for the improvement of their lives. With our project we cherished the value that lies in our nature and to made use of it. We want our students to live in relation with our environment and to appreciate the plants that grow. We need our nature to nourish us. Our project included nutritional science, theoretical and practical knowledge that helps students with future food choices. Students were enabled to see the importance of good nutrition and realized what our plants from Europe provide. We examined plants, extracted and presented their goodness. Gardening and home economics were a big part of the project. Students learned how to grow different plants. We processed fresh meals and prepared food that some had never come across before like hemp seeds, chuffas or nettles. Our horizons were definitely broadened. In our project students communicated about nutrition and worked with our nature's gifts. In language classes students were prepared with the necessary vocabulary. Creative tasks captured the beauty of nature in pieces of art. During the two years the partners brought in their expertise and accomplished complementary work as well as compared their results on identical tasks. The transnational meeting in Italy focused on extracting the goodness of plants and how to use it for our body and soul. The transnational meeting in Romania focused on planting and food preparation. The partners got good knowledge for school gardening to use in their respective schools. The transnational meeting in Spain focused on growing and processing Mediterranean fruits, some of us have never heard before. The transnational meeting in Germany focused on wild herbs and preparing vegetarian meals together. All students improved their language skills, their awareness of nutrition, their knowledge about plants, the requirements of their body and about planting, harvesting and processing. We all communicated a lot and cooperated also by using ICT. Students gave presentations in front of a new audience. We all broadened our horizons. We created a brochure that contains information about healthy nutrition and includes a good variety of the recipes we prepared. We established a website, so that the school community, parents and the public could be involved and see what we worked on. We created a video, so that we will be able to go through our shared experience again and again and remember our project events.