Introduction
One of the greatest celebrations of Christianity religious festivals with deeply rooted customs and centuries-old traditions in Greece is Easter.
Our task to this WebQuest is to take a deeper insight into ancient-old rituals and traditions including food preparations and customs that remain an important part of Greek Easter life.
Task
Your task is:
1. To analyze and describe the whole Easter celebration in Greece, not just the Easter Sunday ceremony.
2. To create an e-cookbook with Easter recipes
3. To write an article about Easter destinations in Greece, including their customs that make them so unique.
Process
Step 1
Students in groups of 3 start work together using the following instructions:
A) Research traditions and customs that take part during the whole Easter celebration in Greece using the internet. Pay attention to the following links:
http://www.greece-is.com/11-destinations-unique-greek-easter/
https://www.ellines.com/en/specials/11779-easter-destinations-and-traditions-in-greece/
https://www.thespruce.com/greek-easter-traditions-1705457
https://www.bluevillascollection.com/blog/taste-the-blue/greek-life/item/539-greek-easter-traditions
https://trigiro.com/traditional-easter-greece/
https://www.dianekochilas.com/the-foods-of-greek-easter/
B) Prepare a presentation using Powerpoint or Prezzi (Worksheet1) and present it to your classmates trying to make them decide it's worth to visit Greece at Easter. Do not forget to give information about:
- What can they do during the Easter period?
- Which traditional festivities, customs are held during the Easter period?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX3Oqi8xAvoud8WJOHqM93rl-fpLcEcrohm9pVBXHFI/edit?usp=sharing
Step 2
Students will be divided into two new groups.
Students in group A will choose the recipes they like and then they will create an e-cooking book with them (Worksheet 3) via https://www.storyjumper.com/ .
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qr0343ElR-E87dOtbdrjkzPs4p0XbUJT_gRGiuaUgNs/edit?usp=sharing
Students in group B will write an article describing Easter traditions and customs in Greece: Holiday Destinations (Worksheet 4).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IiMuMQrJu2AO2kD9lbJ_KM4Tyq3wgL9fFvuNaJxA74M/edit?usp=sharing
Evaluation
This is how your work will be evaluated.
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Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Qualified 3 |
Exemplary 5 |
Score /20
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Teamwork |
There is one person doing all the work, and the team is NOT working together. |
The team is working individually on their own role, and using limited talked with others in a group |
Team is working together, but not using the inflammation to connect with one another. |
The whole team is working together, helping each other out, and connecting information with one another. |
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Research / Understanding
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Don't use sources given & information is not factual.Student lacked knowledge on what different customs, traditions, and cultural backgrounds each region has. |
Use sources were given.Students understood information but couldn't apply it to their projects |
Use sources given, and students understood information but lacked creativity and informational facts |
Use sources, get all information asked, and goes beyond to get and applied extra information to give to their classmates a better idea of how different regions at Greece celebrate Easter |
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Presentations |
No creativity to their presentation, such a little information that classmates aren't able to understand how that region celebrates Easter in a different way. |
Students created a presentation with only text and nothing else. |
Students were able to create a good presentation. |
Great creativity, students are able to understand how this region celebrates Easter. Students were able to design traditions & able to involve Easter customs into their presentations. |
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Final project E-book / Brochure |
No final project |
Final project is lacking key components. |
Final project contains all key components |
Final project contains all key components and some extra information so it is complete and more useful to anyone interested in its theme. |
Conclusion
This WebQuest is designed to develop the critical thinking skills in children. This web quest teaches students about Traditional Greek Easter.
I hope you all had fun and explored our traditions, customs, food and unique spring destinations during Easter holidays. I hope this will help you feel how strong is our tradition, and maybe visit us an Easter!
Credits
This WebQuest was created by a team of teachers, within the co-funded Erasmus plus KA2 partnership “English for hospitality” (EN4HOSTS), project number: 2017-1-RO01-KA201-037159, KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for school education
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.