Playing strategies for the prevention of accidents in 4 to 6 years old children

Abstract

To broach the prevention of health damages in the school context integrates the public policies rules when health education is established as a transversal subject-matter in the Brazilian elementary education. The study had the purpose of describing the use of playing activities as a preventive strategy against children accidents in the school context. It was an experience report with 26 first grade infant education students from Yolanda Queiroz Application School, in Fortaleza, Brazil. The data were collected by means of observation and participation in playing activities such as games, drawings, infant stories. The results showed that the children’s drawings and talks about the accidents and their prevention met the learning expectations. It is considered that the use of playing activities is an option to arise the children creativeness halved by the cultural group language, thus allowing the construction of essential concepts for understanding the ways of preventing childhood accidents.