JUSTIFICATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF CREATING AN EDUCATIONAL BOARD GAME «STOP COVID» FOR PRESCHOOLERS AND PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN AS AN EFFECTIVE SANITARY, EDUCATIONAL AND ANTI-EPIDEMIC MEASURE

Abstract

The article shows that this study confirms the data of many authors that children prefer the game form of obtaining educational information. Children want to receive educational information both in children’s educa­tional institutions and at home from their parents. The vast majority of children know about the COVID-19 pandemic and are familiar with some of the simplest methods of preventing infection with the coronavirus, but almost all children would like to increase their knowledge on this issue, in particular, in a playful way, using a board game in particular. The vast majority of parents are sufficiently informed about the peculiarities of the physiological perception of information by children of preschool and primary school age and consider the best methods of teaching children to be visualization methods and game-based learning. Most parents consider it appropriate to develop the design of an educational board game for children on the prevention of coronavirus infection as an effective anti-epidemic measure.