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Health education is a life-long process for every individual and improves the health and quality of life of the society and it is important to benefit from interactive digital learning environments in providing health education for the digital children of the new age. The aim of the study is to develop educational digital health games and to investigate the role of primary school students in health awareness. Accordingly, in this study, various educational digital health games were designed, developed and evaluated in many health areas, healthy daily life, dental health, hygiene/cleaning, diseases and coronavirus disease. The study is a design-based research and the ASSURE model, one of the design-based research types, was used in the study. The sample of the study consists of 12 primary school 4th grade students. In the study, semi-structured interview was used as data collection tool and content analysis was applied in the analysis. As a result of the study, it was found that educational digital health games improved the health awareness of primary school students and the students gave more and various correct answers after the implementation than before the implementation. Accordingly, educational digital health games can be used in health education for children. |
