How To Teach Hygiene To Elementary Students

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How to teach hygiene to elementary students. Learners will discover the importance of washing hands after seeing that dirty moldy piece of bread. Since February is National Childrens Dental Health Month and Gum Disease Awareness Month there is no better time to teach kids about keeping their smiles healthy. In this instance teach you would teach your students the 6 steps of hand-washing wet your hands apply soap lather the soap rub your hands for at.

Homemade toothpaste is a simple activity to add dental hygiene into the classroom. Students will learn that clean hands may not be so clean after all and that washing their hands can prevent the spread of disease. Its a Germy World After All pdf icon PDF 258 KB 9-12.

These teaching resources were carefully prepared by grade-level to help your students understand what is being done to keep them safe and how to prevent germs from spreading. I had several kids who didnt brush their teeth regularly so I contacted a local dentist and asked if he would sponsor my class. DO make hand-washing more fun by singing the alphabet slowly or the Happy Birthday song twice.

Keeping your body neat and clean is as essential to good health as nutrition exercise and sleep. Talk about how it is grown where it can be grown and health benefits of eating them. It is also an effective way to prevent the spread of germs in school.

Have each student put on a blind fold tough smell and sometimes taste the item to try to identify the fruit or vegetable. To teach personal hygiene to a child start by explaining what germs are and how they can spread since understanding germs will help them understand the importance of being. Film student Reagan Ballard created a video to show to students about personal hygiene.

Gather a variety of fruits and vegetables in a box. Hygiene starts with the hands. In this BrainPOP video Tim and Moby go beneath the surfac.