Urbani School Health Kit Teachers’ Workshop. 8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 9:30...

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Teachers’ WorkshopTeachers’ Workshop

Teachers’ WorkshopTeachers’ Workshop

8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 9:30 Opening/Introduction of Participants

About the Urbani School Health Kit project 9:30 – 10:00 Break10:00 – 10:30 Use of the Urbani School Health Kit in the Classroom10:30 – 11:00 Monitoring and Evaluation11:00 – 12:00 Workshop 1: Lesson Planning

Workshop 2: Monitoring & Evaluation12:00 – 1:00 Lunch 1:00 – 4:00 Presentation of Workshop Outputs 4:00 – 4:30 Closing

Urbani School Urbani School Health KitHealth KitWho? What? Why? Who? What? Why?

Where? When?Where? When?

About the Urbani School About the Urbani School Health KitHealth Kit

• Features of the Urbani School Health Kit• Integrating the use of the Urbani School

Health Kit in the Classroom– Workshop 1

• Monitoring the use of the Urbani School Health Kit– Workshop 2

Why “Urbani”?Why “Urbani”?• Dr. Carlo Urbani (1956-2003)– an expert on school-based

helminth control – developed a concept that schools

should be provided with a kit containing tools for teachers who educate children about preventing health problems like worm infections

– the first WHO staff to identify SARS and died of it in Viet Nam

What is the Urbani School What is the Urbani School Health Kit?Health Kit?• An integrated

package of materials that support health education and health promotion in the school setting, particularly among 5-9 and 10-12 year-old pupils

What are features of the What are features of the Urbani School Health Kit?Urbani School Health Kit?

• Visibility• Usability• Accessibility• Durability• Adaptability

What is in the Kit?What is in the Kit?• Urbani School Health Kit Box • Teacher’s Guide• Teacher’s Resource Books (8 themes)• Games (game rules, floor mats, dice,

ball)• Posters • Other teaching aids (flashcards,

models of teeth, toothbrushes, CD-ROM with videos)

Seven themesSeven themes

TOPICS Health Promotion

Personal hygiene A Clean and Healthy Me

Environmental health A Clean Environment and Healthy Me

Intestinal parasitism A Lively and Healthy MeA Schistosomiasis-free Me

Nutrition A Strong and Healthy Me

Oral care A Smiling and Healthy Me

Tobacco control A Tobacco-free and Healthy me

Malaria prevention A Malaria-free Me

Dengue prevention A Dengue-free Me

Filariasis prevention A Filariasis-free Me

The Urbani Box

The Urbani School Health Kit Contents

Urbani School Health Kit Poster

The Urbani School Health Kit Poster

Implementation highlightsImplementation highlights• Partners

– World Health Organization– UP Open University– Department of Health– Department of Education– AusAid

• Pilot Implementation in Manila: July 2006• Davao: August to November 2007• Palawan: September to November2007• Sultan Kudarat: July to October 2008• Sarangani province: July to October 2008• Butuan: April to October 2009• Zamboanga: April to October 2009


Integrating the Kit into the Integrating the Kit into the school curriculumschool curriculum

Integrating into the school Integrating into the school curriculumcurriculum

• Check school children’s target competencies per grade level

• Determine points where the Urbani School Health Kit might be useful

• Determine whether the activities/lessons in the Kit can be INTEGRATED into the planned lessons; or whether these can be used as ENHANCEMENT

• Remember that the teacher has CONTROL over how the Kit will be used.


About the health About the health campaignscampaigns

A Clean and Healthy MeA Clean and Healthy Me• Personal hygiene helps build a healthy body• Maintaining personal hygiene involves

– Proper hand washing– Daily bathing– Keeping hair clean and neat– Wearing clean clothes– Brushing teeth– Cutting long fingernails– Covering mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing– Not spitting in public places– Using own drinking cup and utensils

• Maintaining personal hygiene is a responsibility I take on as I grow older

A Clean Environment and A Clean Environment and Healthy MeHealthy Me

• A clean and healthy environment has:– Safe food and water supply– Proper waste disposal– Clean air– No pests such as flies, cockroaches, and

mosquitoes

• Maintaining a clean environment helps keep diseases away and fosters growth and development of children

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A Clean Environment and A Clean Environment and Healthy MeHealthy Me

• Many disease-causing germs can be found in dirty environments

• Disease-causing germs enter the body via different routes: (a) through the mouth, (b) through the skin

• Ways of keeping the environment clean and healthy include:– Ensuring safe food and water supply– Properly disposing of waste– Removing breeding places of disease causing

mosquitoes– Ensuring adequate ventilation

A Lively and Healthy MeA Lively and Healthy Me• Worms are parasites that feed on nutrients

in the human bowels• Worm infections are transmitted through

the mouth and through skin contact with contaminated soil

• Worms in the body cause abdominal pain, loss of nutrients, slow growth and development, and even death

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A Lively and Healthy MeA Lively and Healthy Me• Worm infections can be prevented by

improving personal hygiene, practicing proper hand washing, cooking meat thoroughly, keeping food and water supplies clean, and keeping toilets clean.

• Worm infections can be easily treated by deworming drugs.

A Strong and Healthy MeA Strong and Healthy Me• Food is important for growth, energy and

proper functioning of the body• The three major food groups are the sources

of the essential nutrients needed by the body: carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals

• Fruits and vegetables, rice and whole grain products, and fish/meat products are good for the body if taken in appropriate amounts

• Eating too much sweets, fats and salty foods is bad for the body

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A Strong and Healthy MeA Strong and Healthy Me• Good nutrition means eating a

variety of food at the right amount• Maintaining a normal weight is

indicative of good nutrition• It is important to balance food intake

and physical activity• Diet and physical activity today

affect future health

A Smiling and Healthy MeA Smiling and Healthy Me• Children with healty teeth and gums

have more reason to smile• Avoiding sweets and proper brushing

of teeth keeps dental caries away• Dental problems start with dental

plaque that could lead to gum inflammation and dental decay and eventually loss of teeth

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A Smiling and Healthy MeA Smiling and Healthy Me• Poor oral health (such as bad breath and

loss of teet) can affect one’s nutrition and social interactions

• Proper brushing of teeth is essential to healthy gums and teeth

• Choosing what foods to eat and what foods to avoid is important in keeping gums and teeth healthy

• If possible, visit the dentist at least twice a year

A Tobacco-free and Healthy MeA Tobacco-free and Healthy Me• Tobacco use is bad for health• Passive smoking can cause disease• Children should tell adults who smoke in

their presence that smoking is bad for health

• Resist peer pressure to smoke cigarettes• Contrary to what you see in movies, music

videos, magazines and television, smoking does not make you more athletic, attractive or popular.

A Malaria- and Dengue-free MeA Malaria- and Dengue-free Me

• The mosquito is a potentially harmful insect since it may carry organisms that cause malaria and dengue in humans.

• Protecting oneself form mosquito bites includes wearing proper clotes, use of mosquito nets or mosquito repellants

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A Malaria- and Dengue-free MeA Malaria- and Dengue-free Me

• Malaria and dengue can be stopped by:– Disposing of waste properly– Emptying water pots and other potential

mosquito breeding sites– Covering water containers– Cleaning streams and sewers


Workshop on how to use Workshop on how to use the Kitthe Kit

Ideas on how to use the Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health KitUrbani School Health Kit

• Grades 1 and 2– Intestinal Parasitism

• Pictures of healthy and malnourished child• Introduction: worms in the body• Lecture: what are worm infections; how worms enter

the body (using pictures)• Skills: washing hands• Lecture: effect on growth and development; why

infections should be controlled; how to prevent infections

• Evaluation: Games (Q&A)• Enrichment: Tour of school canteen


• Grade 3– Nutrition

• Motivation: Flash cards, pictures, games• Discussion:

– 3 basic food groups (pictures or objects)– Importance of food groups– Right amount; balanced diet; on time– Avoid illness: heart disease, overweight, tooth decay,

high blood pressure, hyperactivity

• Evaluation:– Games– Paper and pencil test


• Grade 3– Oral hygiene

• Topic: Tongue as a sense organ (comment: also discuss oral cavity and proper brushing)

• Singing: “It’s our science time”• Sharing period:

– Science/Health news– Inspection

• Drill: Q&A• Discussion: diseases of the tongue• Demonstration: use teeth models• Evaluation: True or false, involve all students


• Grade 3– Clean environment

• Motivation: Ball game• Discussion:• Activity: Form groups, describe a healthy

environment (home, community, etc.), display children’s work (posters, strips of paper, rhymes)

• Evaluation: Reporting of output


• Grade 4– Diseases/disorders of digestive system

• Motivation: Ball, pictures• Activity: Groupings – 1 picture per group;

arrange pictures in correct sequence (how parasites enter the body)

• Discussion:• Evaluation: Activity mats and ball


• Grade 5– Tobacco; ailments of respiratory system

• Activities: Floor mats (blue and green), posters on tobacco, jingle saying no to tobacco, sharing, health inspection, science news (related to respiratory system; city ordinances/national law); drills, graphic organizing

• Value infusion: say no to tobacco because it is bad for your health

• Discussion: – What comes to your mind when you hear the word

tobacco?– What is the message of tobacco advertisements?

“Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.”• Evaluation:

– Ailments• Assignment

– Interview smokers on what could be the bad effects of tobacco

– Computer research – respiratory system illnesses


• Grade 5– Body systems; Personal hygiene

• Key message: Practice good personal hygiene• Discussion: Changes in the body related to puberty

occuring from 10 to 16 years (Grade 5: 10 to 13 years); show pictures of well groomed and not-well groomed children; discuss factors affecting grooming; motivate

• Activity: Role-playing on personal hygiene; good action and bad action; film showing on personal hygiene

• Enrichment: Checklist on personal hygiene• Skills: Practices


• Grade 6– Keeping healthy; basic food groups

• Objectives: Describe right kind and amount of food; explain importance of having a balanced diet

• Discussion: picture of children playing (which children will get easily tired?); basic food groups; food pyramid puzzle; malnutrition

• Enrichment activity: Investigative reporting; BMI computation (by children)


Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation activitiesactivities

Monitoring and evaluationMonitoring and evaluation• Self evaluation

– See form in the Teacher’s Guide• Pre-test and post-test

– Copies to be provided per topic and for each age-group

• Observation – One (1) class activity / exhibit / demo teaching

per teacher– At least one (1) visit per school

• Interview• Inventory check; durability check

Contact NumbersContact Numbers• Sheila Bonito (UP Open University)

[email protected]

• Erlinda Manarin (UP Open University) [email protected]

Tel. No. - (02) 523 1633

Fax No. – (02) 528 4014

Thank you!Thank you!

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