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GAMES THAT HELP PEOPLE LEARN
Many of the teaching aids described
in this book can be used for group
learning games.
For example, you can use the flannel-
board eyes (described on page 21-8) in a
game that helps health worker:; learn to
identify various eye problems. Students
take turns arranging the pieces to form
different eye problems, while the others
try to identify them by using their books.
If quicker students always answer first,
have everyone take turns answering. Or
you can decide who will answer next by
spinning a bottle (p. 4-8), throwing dice, or
picking numbers out of a hat.
You and your students can invent
similar games for learning about skin
problems or other illnesses.
Many teaching aids can be used as games
to test students’ abilities to identify different
health problems.
Puzzles
Students can make their own puzzles by cutting pieces of cardboard, wood,
or cloth to fit together in certain ways. They can design ‘jigsaw’ puzzles that fit
together to form one picture or shape (like the puzzle about diarrhea on the next
page!. Or they can make puzzles that have separate pieces representing signs of
illnesses that fit onto a human figure (see the teaching aid about swollen lymph
nodes, p. 21-6). Either of these can be used in many kinds of learning games.
Playful, yet serious learning
puzzles can also be used as aids
for learning about antibiotics and
worm medicines. (These are
described on pages 19-2 to 19-
12.)
A similar set of puzzles for
learning about different vaginal
infections has been designed by
the health team in Ajoya, Mexico.
The puzzles include pieces
that fit together (on a flannel-
board) to demonstrate signs of
the problems and aspects of
treatment.
Puzzles for learning about signs and
treatment of different vaginal infections
can be used for ‘self-testing’ games.