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Contribute Health Information for Children To the One Laptop per Child content library

One Laptop per Child is now accepting open-source educational materials pertaining to health and appropriate for children ages 6 through 12. Your materials shipped on OLPC laptops to educate children worldwide!

Materials should:

• be free and open-source for worldwide distribution
• have an emphasis on audiovisual presentation for a young audience
• if possible, be interactive and encourage creativity and hands-on learning
• if possible, be available in multiple languages (translators are available through OLPC)
• classroom activities and curriculum materials are welcome
• materials that utilize the laptops features (built-in microphone, camera, oscilloscope) are welcome

Relevant topics include:

• Physiology and body systems/functions
• Water and sanitation (e.g., water testing and filtration, village-scale water treatment, latrines)
• Hygiene
• Nutrition
• Infectious diseases
• Indoor cooking and air quality
• First aid and "field" medicine

Further examples of relevant health topics can be found in Where There Is No Doctor and other texts from the Hesperian Foundation:

An example of child-appropriate materials in the OLPC library can be found here: E.O. Wilson Foundation's "Biomes of the Earth," (see also Biology (collection)) a pictoral presentation library of the Earth's ecosystems.

For questions and to submit materials to the library, please contact: content at laptop dot org

Questions and Guidelines

for contributors (to add to the above?):

• Including and customizing a version of the Hesperian Foundation guidelines for simplified writing
• Adding interface guidelines for helping direct people to available health information.
• How to use a wiki-like structure to link together available chapters.
• Age appropriateness of existing materials : adding material and interactive projects for young readers over time.

  Working with appropedia and howtopedia for simpler presentation of information, and for individual or small-group projects

Contact people for the above

Anna and Mika.