Life Skills Planning messages for nutrition, health and life skills using different modes of communication for different target groups. Content Identification of a target group for education Identification of needs and problems that are specific to the selected group . Planning a suitable message to educate the group . Selecting a mode of communication .
Developing the educational material. Purpose This practical is intended to enable the students to plan suitable messages for health and nutrition education of different groups of the community and to select an appropriate mode of communication to deliver the message. Procedure The class can be divided into groups of – students in each group. The first task is to identify the focal/target group for whom the message is to be made.
The different focal groups could be — adolescents, school children, pregnant mothers, adults. . Once the focal/target group is selected, identify the nutritional problem or a topic about which you would like to educate the group. .
Identify a suitable message (aimed at the selected group) which will help in improving the nutrition and health profile of the selected group. This will depend on the needs and the existing problems specific to each group. For example, the message to be delivered to pregnant mothers could be improvement in their diet during pregnancy. For adults it could be increasing physical activity to maintain weight, and enhance fitness and well being.
. Select a suitable mode of communication to deliver the message. A variety of modes are available like poster, charts, flipbooks, puppet stories and short skits to convey the message. The learners can select any one depending on the availability of time and resources.
. Each group should discussion about the target group they want to select and the message that they want to deliver. They are assisted by the teacher in this process. Then they decide as to how they will deliver the message.
Once the plan is finalised, the group works on the message and develops the final product . . Each group will present its product to the teachers and classmates. .
Group Evaluation of the product and presentation. Appendix - Projects