Utah Education Network
Uen: Healthy, Happy Me
In this health lesson plan, students will learn about germs and how they are spread. The importance of handwashing is emphasized in this instructional activity.
US Department of Agriculture
Fsis: Mail Order Food Safety
This resource focuses on information about sending perishable food by mail. It includes links to articles about related topics, and a step-by-step guide on how to ordering a mail-order food gift.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Back to School Collection
Get ready for the start of school with some of our favorite back-to-school resources! This collection features activities and video resources to help students get to know each other and their new school routines, and lesson plans to help...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Back to School Packet: Pre K and K
Use these back to school-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street
Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Being Kind Bingo: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week (October 12th), we're learning how to share positive interactions with others.
PBS
Pbs Nova Teachers: The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Classroom Activity
Test the efficacy of different types of hand hygiene to stem the transmission of diseases by conducting an experiment using variables and a control group.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Handwashing
Discusses how handwashing can prevent spread of infection if practiced regularly and properly.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Why Should I Care About Germs
Feeling stuffy? Running a fever? Well, read through this article and learn about the different types of germs and what you can do to prevent them. Don't miss the link that includes articles to similar sites.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Hepatitis
Use this site to learn about an infectious and highly contagious disease. Find out about the various types of hepatitis, how people get it, how to treat it.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Meningitis
Use this site to learn about a highly contagious disease that affects the brain. You will find out who can get meningitis, and how it is treated.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Stopping the Spread of Germs at Home, Work & School
This page lists "good health habits" to help prevent the spread of the flu and links to pages on handwashing and resources for stopping germs and flu virus in school and work environments.
Other
New Mexico State University: Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard
Available for PC and Mac, an educational game relaying the importance of food safety, handwashing, and hygiene, while encouraging scientific exploration and inquiry. Requires approximately two hours of playing time to complete.
Other
Gympanzees: Hand/eye Coordination
This page contains hand eye coordination exercises, games, videos, and activities for children and young people with all abilities and disabilities. Also includes a great video to encourage handwashing skills.
NC State University
The Engineering Place: Germs
A lesson in why it is important to wash your hands so as to prevent the spread of germs.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Glitter Germs
This lesson plan is designed to give young young scholars a concrete demonstration as to why they should wash their hands with soap and warm water so they will understand that germs are smaller than the eye can see.