Programa educativo sobre prevención de desastres ocasionados por la naturaleza dirigido a niñas y niños de la Escuela Dr. Carlos Guido Mera Vera de la ciudad de Riobamba. Provincia de Chimborazo.2014

Abstract

“The Education Program for Natural Disaster Prevention in children from fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh year of basic education School Dr. Carlos Guido Mera Vera City of Riobamba Province of Chimborazo 2014”. It was developed with the aim of enhancing knowledge about prevention and to help to improve practices in emergency situations of natural disasters. The applied methodology was participatory active. Were designed four training modules: Natural disasters, volcano eruptions, earthquakes and floods that developed them through workshops, videos, games and group work. The educational program assessment was of formative type, for this purpose a server of children was applied before and after the educational intervention. We conclude that the benefits that the educational program brings were the improvement in children on practices for prevention of natural disasters. Based on this work it is recommended for integrated educational institutions into curricular areas within a wider framework of health education, with the aim of enabling students to raise their level of knowledge on this topic and activities can be replicated at home.