Sunny days would they return?

Who it is, the solar security with the site offers "hands on" a fact sheet online to conduct an animation in health education.

Health and citizenship needed today among the priorities of education, both within and outside school. The health damage linked to sun overexposure, particularly skin cancers and cataracts interventions, reaching record levels!
Nearly 1500 people died per year for melanoma with a doubling of the number of new cases every 12 years. In this context, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Academy of Medicine and more recently the Cancer Plan formally recommend actions to protect and solar education to children.

The teaching module "Living With the Sun", allows classes to Cycle 3 articulate scientific learning, health education and citizenship education in interdisciplinary work resolutely (science and health but also history, geography, mathematics , Mastery of languages ...) whose purpose is to prevent risks to solar.

During 10 sessions of classes, organized into 4 sequences, children become familiar with the effects of the Sun on our health (positive and negative), identify the ultraviolet (UV) component of sunlight and study changes in UV by time, place, season, the environment ...

Students explore different means of protection (eye and skin), in testing the effectiveness in different situations.

Finally, it ends by producing a poster, a charter, a Thursday, a slogan ... to enable children to become themselves involved in prevention among their families and other children school.

Three optional sessions can deepen certain scientific concepts, as the protective role of the atmosphere and the origin and distribution of different skin colors. [Source: Hands on]