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How teachers and health workers
presented the Accidents Activity
Many of the CHILD-to-child activity sheets were first tried out in the small
Mexican village of Ajoya. In order to learn if they were useful, both the village
health team and the primary school teachers were given the sheets, with very little
additional information or assistance.
It is interesting to compare the teaching methods used by the school teachers
with those used by the health workers.
The health workers in Ajoya have found it important to bring learning as close to
real life as possible. For teaching aids, they try to use real objects rather than
just drawings. People learn best from what they can touch and handle.
Whereas the teachers made excellent posters to help the children learn about
accidents, the health workers figured out ways to use real objects and lifelike
situations to teach the same ideas.
For example: Injures from falls
A P P R O P R I AT E
The teacher made this poster to get
the children thinking and talking
about accidents from falls.
MORE APPROPRIATE
The health workers,
however, had the children
pretend one of them had
fallen. The children then
figured out how to build
a stretcher using brooms
and their shirts.