EF+ INTERVENTION PROJECT: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS AND LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEALTH

ABSTRACT The objective was to verify the impact of “Educação Física+: Praticando Saúde na Escola” intervention on teaching practices and health knowledge of schoolchildren from Canguçu city, southern Brazil. Fifteen schools participated in the study (group 1: schools that joined the intervention in the year of 2011; group 2: schools that joined the intervention in the year of 2012). This study was carried out by two years with 883 schoolchildren and 13 teachers. The schollchildren knowledge of health was improved in the post-intervention (p