Welcome
to Seasons
Apart!
We in
Finland are lucky to have
four different seasons.
But how do they affect
our everyday lives?
That's the theme of the
third part of Heinäveden
yläaste and lukio’s
Comenius project. We'll
focus on weather, food
traditions and textiles.
For easy
navigation, the work has
been divided into four
parts, spring, summer, autumn and winter, each
with links to weather,
food and textiles pages.
Our guiding principle was
to keep the texts as
short as possible, and
let the pictures talk
instead. A joint
newspaper is to be
published later in 2001
including articles from
all the three project
members on the topics
above.
Hope
you'll enjoy your tour of
the seasons in Heinävesi.
Your comments and
feedback are also welcome.
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Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
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Objectives
and working process
 Weather
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exchange of weather data
for spring, summer,
autumn and winter.
Weather data (daily
temperatures, rain, wind
direction and speed, air
pressure and cloud cover)
to be exchanged daily for
a 5 day period in the
weeks beginning 3 April,
5 June, 2 October, 11
December.
Food
Students
were to make 2 local or
traditional dishes per
season (one savoury, one
sweet) and exchange
recipe sheets; plans;
historical and cultural
background to dishes and
photos of finished
products.
Textiles
Students
were to design and make
seasonal wall hangings
using a range of modern
and traditional
techniques, patterns and
colours. Then to exchange
details of the design and
making process, as well
as photos of the sources
of inspiration and of the
finished product.
Word
processing and
translation
The story
about the seasonal wall
hangings has been adapted
from the students'
learning diaries. The
weather texts have been
translated by the science
teacher. At the planning
stage also students not
directly involved in the
project studied and
translated a number of
articles from Virtual
Finland. The cookery
class produced their own
material and translated
it with the help of their
English teacher. The
pages of Virtual Finland
proved a great source of
inspiration, and that's
how the idea of this web
site started to evolve.
Information
Technology
Creating
these pages was an
equally exciting learning
process involving the use
of Frontpage, FTP,
digital camera, scanning,
photo editing and CD
creation programmes.
Participants
Many
thanks for your
contribution each and
everyone!
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