Well-being
Well-being of a human can be seen from different points of view. Generally
it’s seen as a complex of health, material well-being and personally experienced well-being or or in other words as the quality of life. In these materials central themes are exercising, health and nutrition.
The physics of sports, molecular gastronomy, the effect of pH on dental health or clean water can be research topics in school There are both complete projects and ideas for teaching among the materials. Materials are categorised according to the year group. But get inspired from the materials outside of your own year group as well.
The Best Well-being Projects
StarT 2018
- Tom Yum Kung, National science and technology development agency, Kindergarten school of Thammasat University, Thailand
Project diary
The subject of study was one of the national dishes of Thailand. The theme was approached through arts, cooking, math and field trips. LUMA StarT Award Nominee 2018.
- Healthy teeth, happy smiles. Sihirli Saatler kindergarten, Turkey.
StarT 2017
- Well-being project about bread (the learning diary) from National Science and Technology Development Agency, Supranee Sitthipairojsakul’s group, Thailand, was International LUMA StarT Award Nominee 2017.
The inspiration of the project originated from the children in the class. They wanted to know how bread was made and why it was deemed healthy. In Thailand we already do a lot of project-based learning and therefore it was quite easy to transfer our current learning structure to that of StarT. The project itself consisted of a number of self learning experiments which taught the children the history, methods and culture of bread using all 5 senses – Sight, Smell, Touch, Taste and Sound.
- The team of the project Video film: “Well-being” (the learning diary) from Vilnius John Paul II gymnasium, Lithuania conducted a survey and made a video about healthy routines.
“Well-being”- the main aim was to demonstrate how to stay healthy.The team had to design a questionnaire, analyze the data and make a video.
- Comacinco project from IES FRANCISCO DAVIÑA REY, Spain
“Comacinco” is a project related to health through the study of physical conditions and food. The name is motivated by the recommendation to eat five fruits and vegetables a day, or five meals do. For collaboration with other schools that are not of our city requested an eTwinning project, named “Factor your diet” currently work with Portugal and Canary Islands. The tasks that developed in our school are posted on this blog and we do with the other centers in this other blog and TwinSpace.
Materials
Kindergarten and preschool (3-7 year olds)
Explore the growing plants with Peter Rabbit.
Primary School (7-12 year olds)
How you could measure the capacity of your lungs or rate of the heart beat? These materials are related to a body and food.
- Healthy Food for Healthy Planet
- How to measure your lung capacity
- Measuring Your Body
- Train like an astronaut
Lower Secondary (13-15 year olds)
Plan a project with your students about science behind sports or food.
- Basketball Science
- Football in Science Teaching
- Heart Health How Does Heart Rate Change with Exercise
- How to measure your lung capacity
- Measuring Your Body
- Train like an astronaut
- Yogurt Bacteria
Upper Secondary level (16-19 year olds)
