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Another example: Burns from hot food
APPROPRIATE
To help children understand that it is
important to turn handles of pots so small
children cannot reach them, the teacher
copied this drawing from the activity
sheet.
MORE APPROPRIATE
To teach the same idea, the health worker
brought a big pan to school. He filled it
with water and had a child (who did not
know it had water in it) demonstrate how
a baby might reach up and spill hot food
on her head.
Result: the surprised child got soaked,
everyone got a laugh, and no one forgot
the lesson!
In a similar way, instead of drawing the
tooth mark s of poisonous and non-
poisonous snakes on a poster, the health
worker drew them right on the children’s
arms. (For photos and discussion of this
example, see p. 11-6.)