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Topic: Personal Health

Grade Level: Second

District Health Standard: Demonstrate proper way to brush and floss teeth.  

Lesson Summary: Students will identify purpose of teeth, the effects of poor dental hygiene, and demonstrate their ability to brush and floss correctly.

Textbook Connections:  
McGraw-Hill Health, Chapter 1, pgs. 6-7; worksheet 3
McGraw-Hill Web-Linked Activities

Materials: Toothbrush, small package of toothpaste for each child, floss, if possible (ask school nurse for resources), apple, drawing paper, writing paper, toothpaste tubes.

Technology: Internet

Instructional Input:

Objectives:

* Students will understand the effects of decay on the health of their teeth.
* Students will demonstrate how to correctly brush their teeth.
* Students will demonstrate how to correctly floss their teeth.

 Lesson plans:

1. Ask children to describe how it feels to lose one of their primary teeth, and if it causes any problems, like eating apples, popcorn, saying specific sounds, etc.

2. Discuss the purpose of teeth (speaking, eating, smiling), and how it would affect our lives if we did not have them.  Children can try to sing a song (Twinkle, twinkle) with lips curled around teeth, as if they were toothless.

3. Have the students repeat the alphabet, noticing the sounds that require teeth to pronounce them.

4. Put a one-inch deep hole into an apple, place it in a bag and set it aside for a few days.  Then cut through the place where the hole was made and have the children look at the possible effect of tooth decay.

5.  Have a school nurse or local dentist visit the class and demonstrate the correct way of brushing and flossing their teeth.  After children can demonstrate this appropriately, have the students share this knowledge with a younger class, such as kindergarten.

VOCABULARY: 
dentist, permanent teeth, gums, floss, toothbrush, cavity.

 HOMEWORK:
*Students record on a monthly calendar the days and how often they brush and floss.  At the end of the month, the children can graph and compare with other students.

 LEARNING CENTERS

1. WebQuest

2. Students can make a bulletin board, entitled: "Smiles are always in fashion".  The children draw pictures of themselves wearing their favorite outfit with a big, healthy smile.

3. Ask students to complete a sentence about healthy smiles:

"My smile is important because…" or Smiles are always in fashion because…."

4. Children bring in a tube of toothpaste or the name of a brand they use.  At the center, they graph how many families use the various name brands of toothpaste (Crest, Colgate, etc.).  When graphs are finished, discuss which brands are the most popular, and reasons why that brand is used in their home.  Input the data into Excel.  Show the results with various types of graphs (pie, chart, etc.).

WebQuest: Tooth Adventures

Websites:

Web Dental Office
 http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/abyss/dep1401.htm

American Dental Association
http://www.ada.org/

American Dental Association Kids' Corner
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/kids/movies.html

American Dental Association Puzzles
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/kids/color.html

Brush Your Teeth Online
http://www.bubblegum.com/activities/brushteeth/

Food Chase Game
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/abyss/games/food.htm

Hygiene and Nutrition tips
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/abyss/nutrit0.htm  

Sparkle City
http://www.sparkle-city.com/index_flash.html

Johnson & Johnson Reach
http://www.mrreach.com/

Adventures of Mr. Reach
http://www.mrreach.com/kids/kd_pl.html

Letter to the Tooth Fairy
http://www.toothfairy.org/cgi/letter.cgi

Sears Story Creations
http://www.searsportrait.com/storybook/to_tooth_99_form.html

Connected Stories or Books:
Arthur's Tooth, Marc Brown

Authors: Shonda Haught, Jerry Drinnen, Shawn Henderson, Neva Sedorcek