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How to teach and how to reach?

Eva- Liisa Orula & Triinu Vakmann

Riga, 13.11.2013

Teaching what?

1) How the environment state affects our food and health;

2) how human activity affects the environment.

Picture: Veljo Runnel

Teaching how?

By combining scientific knowledge and best educational experiences for individual and collective learning.

We have provided materials for

• teachers and students,

• consumers,

• researchers,

• organisations and institutions.

Web applications

Life cycle of ketchup

Contaminants in food

Foodplate model

Handbooks for teachers

Collective learning

Teacher’s handbook

Materials for individual users

Dictionary

Brochure

Leaflets

Hands-on learning

Interactive exhibition „Aha, Red Herring!“

in Science Centre AHHAA

How to reach?

By making our project visible!

• We have organized seminars for teachers to introduce educational tools.

• We have participated in several environmental education events and shared our materials.

• Participating in public fairs.

• Using project webpage and social media to share our knowledge.

• Publishing articles in online media.

• Radio and TV interviews.

• Networking with environmental NGO’s.

Results in numbers

• 4 seminars with over 200 participants

• Introducing our outputs to 150 teachers

• 157 likes on our Facebook page

• Over 5000 visitors on our web page in last 6 months

• Sharing our knowledge for almost 6000 people in public fairs

• Over 93 000 visitors in our exhibition

Feedback

About teacher’s handbook:

„Very informative, well structured and easy to use.“

„Worksheets are very useful and help teacher to save time when preparing a lesson.“

About web applications:

„Informative, modern and user friendly. Certainly adding value in school lessons.“

About the exhibition:

„Educational exhibition where learning is disguised in many fun forms.“

„You can touch, see, hear and experience it all just by ‘playing’ with exhibits!“

How to reach US ?

www.foodweb.ut.ee

Thanks for teaching and reaching you!