TwinSpace Activities

Name of the project

Addressing Health and Well-being at schools and beyond (HEALTH@SCHOOL

Partners

GymnáziumCyrila Daxnera SLOVAKIA 1st EPAL NAFPAKTOU GREECE

Hemijsko-prehrambena tehnoloska skola Beograd SERBIA

Liceo Scientifico Statale Benedetto  Croce ITALY

Age of the pupils

15-19 years old

Aim

This project aims to support student achievements through advocacy for environmental change, delivery of education and awareness campaigns to local communities, and personal coaching on a wide variety of health and nutrition topics implemented with the use of technology for achieving health, food and media literacy. We strive to equip all students to make intentional, positive lifestyle choices for themselves as well as empower them to use intervention strategies to prevent harm to others.

Topics

Health and Well-being, Nutrition and Health, Environmental Health, One Health Approach

Approaches

STEAM, CLIL, IBSE

ICT tools

WebQuests, Google Documents,Padlet, Google Forms, Thinglink, Storyjumper, Madmagz, Coggle, Kwiksurveys, Kahoot Prezi,Tricider, Audacity, Screencast-o-Matic, YouTube, Animaker, Flipgrid, Pixton, Moovly, PosterMyWall, Easel.ly, Gennial.ly,, Powtoon, wiki, Talkwall, etc Trello

Resources

https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dmWAB2LoFzOk25n?user_id=b895201041cbcc51ef271654780c2dad2f2b5e94https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/health-and-physical-education/

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/https://healtheducationresources.unesco.org/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

https://foodinsight.org/

https://www.webmd.com/diet/default.htm

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/

https://www.kenhub.com/

http://www.scientix.eu/

https://www.scienceinschool.org

https://www.rsc.org/teaching-and-learning/http://www.stemalliance.eu/ https://edu-arctic.eu/https://education.microsoft.com/

http://www.bioedonline.org/

https://stemsims.com/simulations/https://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

https://www.pbs.org/

https://www.edutopia.org/

http://www.fao.org/home/en/

https://foodsustainability.eiu.com/

http://www.teebweb.org/

https://www.sciencelessonsthatrock.com/https://www.agclassroom.org/

https://phet.colorado.edu/ https://virtuallabs.nmsu.edu/index.php https://www.who.int/

https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CAMB-PQ-6-1205a_front.pdf

Example Activities

• Who is who: presenting ourselves, countries, cities, schools
• Logo selecting and voting
• Surveys (Eating behavior, Environmental behavior, Anxiety and stress, PERMA)
• Health dimensions
• Definition of Health and Well-being for adolescents
• Factors contributing to health and well-being of adolescents: food, nutrition, and diets, substance use, environment, internet use as subdomains will be further analyzed as subtopics
• How do adolescents’ health and well-being relate to each other?
• How to increase our well-being?
• Health related challenges that adolescents face in partner countries: problem solving practices suggestions by paired country’s students
• Students-led Health and well-being campaigns in our local societies
• STEM activities

Expected results FOR students

• feel listened to, respected, treated as an individual
• become more aware of their health issues and prevention, as well as their eating and environmental behaviour
• be able to think analytically, observe their studies, health, nutrition, and environment consciously, and increase their ability of interpretations on digital content
• be more confident, responsible, active and creative citizens
• achieve better results on learning science context and language by using CLIL,STEM and IBSE
• learn how to use new web 2.0 tools and use them efficiently
• be more motivated to participate in positive activities inside and outside of school
• be empowered to use intervention strategies to prevent health harm to others
• be more conscious individuals respecting different cultures and sharing common points of Europe

The gained skills and confidence will secure more positive employment and training impacts 

Evaluation/self evaluation

specific rubrics, questionnaires, observation report knowledge survey, constructive feedback by peers, TwinSpace forums, quizzes, games, and debates, observation data gathering, collaboration, and reporting efforts, collections of video recorded STEM activities, Students and teachers' Meeting Reports, etc.

Dissemination

Videoconferences, personal social network acounts (Facebook, twitter, instagram), official website, schools’ website, personal blogs, celebration events, training events and workshops, interview to local media (radio, TV,newspaper), educational conferences, video recordings on YouTube channel, reports to authorities

Final products

comics, infographics, posters, e-books, e- magazines, audio, video, code and PPT presentations, etc

MONTHLYACTIVITIES

JAN2024

who is who:presenting ourselves, countries, cities, schools by using WEB2.0 tools

FEB2024

logo selecting and voting

Identifying nutritional status and eating behaviour: Food Frequency Questionnaire

Identifying knowledge gaps: Kahoot quiz

Identifying what students would like to learn and how: Lino.it web2.0 tool

MAR2024

Social development in adolescence: influences to their food choices

Adolescent nutrition: Why does it matter?

Development and growth changes Eating behaviour-Recommendations Body image and Eating disorders

Survey:Body-Esteem Scale for Adolescents (BESAA)

APR2024

Adolescents’ health challenges in our countries

MAY2024

Alcohol consumption Use of substances

JUN2024

Nutritional status-Healthy weight:BMI, Waist to Hip ratio, Fat percentage Physical activity

Basal metabolism Energy balance

Responsible consumption and production meeting in Greece: Activities Survey:Identifying changes in eating behaviour: Food Frequency Questionnaire

SEP2024

Nutritional and caloric value of food: Carbohydrates

Proteins Lipids Vitamins

Minerals

Why does water matter?

Clean water and sanitation meeting in Serbia: Activities

OCT2024

Interactions among environmental health and nutrition Interactions among health and nutrition

NOV2024

Interactions among Anxiety and nutrition

Anxiety in adolescent-Survey:ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE (STAI – GR. X-2)

DEC 2024

Health and Well-being meeting in Slovakia: Activities

JAN2025

1ST YEAR EVALUATION by students and teachers Popular diets: Pros and cons

FEB-APR 2025

Selecting materials used-Final outputs’ editing

MAY2025

Evaluation-Dissemination of the results and outputs

JUN2025

Final report editing

Activities on International Days celebration

4/2

World Cancer Day

Actions based to the annual theme

11/2

International Day of Women

and Girls in Science

4/3

World obesity day

Let’s talk about obesity

17/3

World Sleep Day

22/3

World Water Day

Actions based to the annual theme

6/4

International Sport Day

recognize the positive role sport and physical activity play in communities and in people’s health

7/4

World Health Day

Actions based to the annual theme

22/4

International Mother Earth Day

Actions based to the annual theme

28/5

World Hunger Day

Actions based to the annual theme

31/5

World No Tobacco Day

Why does smoking matter?

5/6

World Environment Day

Actions based to the annual theme

7/6

World Food Safety Day

Actions based to the annual theme

25/9-2/10

BehaviourAwareness Week

conversations to look at behavior and better understand what young people are trying to

tell us and how we respond.

29/9

International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Why is reducing food losses and waste essential for our world and health problem solving?

1/10

WorldVegetarianDay

International Coffee Day

Are vegetarian diets healthy?

Coffee consumption in adolescence: pros and cons

10/10

World Mental Health Day

WHO campaign Making Mental Health & Well-Being for All a Global Priority

16/10

World Food Day

FAO’s campaign Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow

10/11

 World   Science   Day for

Peace and Development

highlight the significant role played by

basic sciences in advancing knowledge for the wellbeing of society and its sustainable development.

14/11

World Diabetes Day

Education       to       protect   tomorrow-

campaign:access to diabetes education

16/11

International      Day                          for Tolerance

the promotion of a spirit of tolerance and non-violence at school and beyond

1/12

World AIDS Day