Kid Scoop News: Educating kids on COVID-19 using engaging activities
Summary of the Initiative
Kid Scoop News on Coronavirus is a special edition of a news magazine for children published by a nonprofit organization, Kid Scoop News. The edition aims to explain the science behind the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the evidence based preventive measures to children aged 6–14 years.
As part of the special edition, the team developed a 16-page coloring and activity booklet illustrating practical advice for children to pull through the pandemic. The booklet is available on the project website and was made available to newspapers in Canada and the United States of America, and other publishers, free of cost. Some newspapers published the booklet on their websites, others printed it in their newspapers. Some content was adapted from the booklet and published in the newspapers as individual features such as:
- a two-page summary that focused on the characteristics of the virus and why the precautions work;
- mask outlines for children to color and display, promoting the act of wearing masks in public.
Newspapers that published the booklet were distributed to low-income areas through community service agencies to reduce information inequity and consequently health inequity
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