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The Table of Brotherhood
2009
• Essential question or problem that this project addresses:
“When in Rome, do as Romans do” This is a saying that means:”When you go to another country, you’ll find different customs and traditions”
• Curriculum standards
Each student will do a survey about a country around the world choosing from : ASIA-AUSTRALIA-AFRICA-AMERICA- EUROPE and will describe its geographical and economic aspects. They will draw also a map of the country and will describe it with a short caption saying what hunger is, what the reasons are, such as war, natural catastrophe, lack of education and so on. Then he /she will focus on the consequences of hunger, as nutrition and calories deficiency and some illness. Then students will describe the foods that people usually eat and some special dishes with some traditional food information supported by pictures or drawings made by students with ms paint or hand painted. Each of them will interview people coming from the country they are doing the survey or on the internet and will make a video. Students will also create a game or a quiz about recipes from different countries.
• Expected outcomes
The final product will be a dish used in the country and cooked by each member . The recipes will be written on the project. In this way each student will sit at the table of brotherhood and will help each other offering the dish cooked , giving in this way an end to the hunger.
• Required resources
Internet, books, encyclopedia, interviews, school library.
• How will this project help the class, school, community or world?
At the end of the work students will prepare something to eat in their own school and will invite parents, relatives and all the school staff to buy the food prepared. All the proceeds will be given in charity to help the countries in which there is still hunger!
Team
tanyakvcrpf, Karnataka, India
samayakvcrpf, Karnataka, India
ashvitakvcrpf, Karnataka, India
Matteopalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy
Desireepalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy
Priscillapalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy
Age Range
15 & under
Coaches
CHEMMALAR SHANMUGAMkvcrpf, Karnataka, India
Ornella Palazzopalombara sabina, Palombara Sabina, Italy
Category
Social Sciences & Culture
Audience
All ages
Language
English
Team Collaboration
Students from Italy and India collaborated to this project with a different social and cultural background. The Italian team from Palombara Sabina, Matteo, Priscilla and Desirée at first have been helped by their classmates in preparing the content and the survey, including also some drawings while the Indian team Tanya, Ashvita and Samaya, was working and selecting the materials to use for the topic of this project. In a second moment Italian team started to communicate with the Indian team and planned the work with them, utilizing messages of ThinkQuest and e-mails, discussing and talking about the steps to follow in the work. Then each student started doing a survey about some poor countries. We shared some opinions and ideas using debates and the narrative aspect. We selected and draw some images to support our ideas about hunger and poverty. The Italian team has organized a Charity party at their school inviting a missionary nun from Bangladesh and getting videos and pictures from this event. Most of the pictures are original, took from our coaches and from some of us. We worked at school and at home, interacting among us after our school activities or in the evening as time zone was different in India and Italy.
Team Diversity
The socio-cultural differences between the Indian and Italian teams have completed and enriched the knowledge of some geographic and historic aspects of the two countries, India and Italy, stimulating curiosity and adding to the members students of the two teams a real motivating factor to study with more passion and pleasure.
