Food, nutrition, and health education with educational lessons in the Cuambo community school, Ibarra canton, Imbabura province

• Main Author: Victoria Recalde, Fanny Margoth
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2001
• Subjects: Nutrition > Study and teaching > Ecuador; Agricultural Education; Life Sciences
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5450; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6449&context=etd

The general objective of this study was that of giving food, health, and nutrition education via educational lessons based on a diagnostic of teachers' and children's knowledge at the Cuambo school. The study is descriptive and transverse and lasted from October 2000 through June 2001. The study included 100% of the attending children and teachers of the Cumabo community school, being 42 in number. Variables were: topics on eating, nutrition, and health that complete the plan of basic studies, along with training of students and teachers. Since the project was eminently educational, it implied carrying out the respective educational lessons with adaptations for each community. There were 10 educational lessons done for each community, which consisted of topic, audience, message, objective, techniques, materials, preliminary preparation, initial evaluation, classroom development, review, reinforcement, final evaluation, and analysis. The support educational materials used were the Healthy Schools pamphlets, which were made into the principal source of education.