Anastasia Gkrimoura from Out of the Ordinary, Greece developed an workshop on DIET AND WELLBEING - NUTRITION GAMES under the D-PATH project. The equipment used was LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime, the workshop duration was 2 hours and participants were youth and adults.
Anastasia Gκrimoura is a highly experienced robotics teacher who specializes in teaching children and young people. Anastasia's educational background in Greek literature & pedagogy at the undergraduate level, coupled with a master's degree in educational psychology and in robotics and new learning technologies, gives her a unique perspective on how to effectively teach robotics to children and young people.
She taught participants in the D-PATH conference 7-9 June 2023, how they could use robotics equipment to learn more about diabetes. She developed modules based on the use of Lego and Robotics to explain to youth chemical reactions that happen in the human body of those people who are suffering from diabetes and metabolic disorders. The activity involved knowledge on robotics, STEAM, and ICT.
It included 4 steps :
- Introduction with an analysis of the impact of food and lifestyle on the mentioned category of people;
- Use of tools such as robotics and Lego to explain chemical processes in the human body for those who suffer from diabetes (type 1 and 2) and metabolic diseases, analyzing the impact of healthy lifestyle and conscious nutrition;
- Activities based on the tools created by the experts with young target groups;
- After the use of the tools, learners take part in outdoor activities to directly experience the importance of a healthy lifestyle (kinesthetic activities) discovering how this improves the basic health and psychological conditions. The idea is to link what we observed through Lego and robotics with the actual reactions of the human body.
During this workshop participants go through educational modules and use tools based on ICT, LEGO and Robotics for information and communication about healthy lifestyle and conscious nutrition.