Programa educativo sobre alimentación saludable dirigido a niñas y niños de la escuela fiscal “Baltazar García” Recinto El Mirador. Cantón Palestina. Provincia del Guayas. 2012.

Abstract

This work is about the implementation of an Educatinal Program about healthy nutrition in children from the Baltazar Garcia public school, at el Mirador village, in the province of Guayas. Information about socio-demographic features, knowledge and practice was collected through surveys applied to 30 students; and more complete interviews to their parents. From the results, 43% are women and 57% are men aged between 8-15 of them do not know the importance of nutrition; 33% do not have breakfast; 10% consume junk food; 33% do not know the benefits of the food pyramid and 70% do not have good food hygiene and preservation habits. Because of the low level of knowledge, the educational program about healthy nutrition was applied. Detection of needs was done through the David Leyva technique and for the pedagogical sequence it was applied the Morganov Heredia technique; the program was made up of nine class plans which used techniques like brainstorming, collage, videos, forums, warm ups, individual and group work, using didactic resources like charts and the food pyramid, complementing itself with the design guide of the educational program from the Panamerican Health Organization. At the end of the course, the effectiveness of assimilation of the knowledge on healthy nutrition was 80% it is recommendable to reproduce the program in the whole educational center.