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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!