Curated OER
Dental Detectives
First graders explore the theme of dental health and hygeine. They make tooth loss predictions, count lost teeth, and graph tooth loss. In addition, they listen to dental health stories, read online stories, create spreadsheets, and play...
Curated OER
Tooth or Consequences
Students listen to facts about dental health and watch a tooth brushing and flossing demonstration by the teacher.
Curated OER
Watch Your Mouth
Students explore the effects of tooth loss to their bodies. In this oral health lesson students complete several activities that help them determine how tooth loss effects nutrition, facial structure and jaw bones.
Curated OER
Tooth
In this coloring worksheet, students cut out a picture of a tooth. Students can color the picture, add details, or make up a story about it.
Curated OER
Parts of the Body
In this parts of the body instructional activity, students complete the blanks in twenty sentences with the correct body part that makes each one whole in meaning. Students have twenty words to choose from to fill in each blank.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Healthy, Happy Teeth
During this lesson, students will enjoy multisensory activities related to the importance of practicing good oral hygiene. Students will listen to a shared text, learn songs, participate in a liquids lab, and participate in four centers.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things: Teeth and Eating
An interactive teeth and eating exercise followed by some research information on teeth. A quick quiz to check for understanding follows the activity.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Dental Arch Game
An interactive labeling exercise helps students practice naming human adult teeth.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Tooth Cross Section Game
Test your knowledge of the anatomy of human tooth with this interactive labeling exercise.
Other
Teachingheart.net: A Teacher's Dental Health Page
These lesson plans teach students the importance of good dental hygiene and feature crafts, games, books ,and songs.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Theater: "Mithing Tooth" Poetry Theater
In "Mithing Tooth", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from Kenn Nesbitt's The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!'s poem, students will dramatize a poem about a child who is missing a tooth and gets upsets when his...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Taking Care of Teeth
This resource explains why healthy teeth are important, and how you can keep your teeth healthy are topics discussed in this site.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Teeth and Eating: Types of Teeth
There are many different types of teeth in your mouth. Learn about incisors, canines, premolars, molars, and wisdom teeth as well as the difference between your primary (or baby) teeth and your permanent teeth.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Teeth and Eating: Structure of the Tooth
An illustrated guide to the different parts that make up a tooth.
Other
The Magic School Bus: About Your Teeth
This brief overview of human teeth also features a section on dental hygiene.
Other
Teeth: Online Word Search Puzzle (Grade 3)
Find words associated with teeth (like molar, pulp, permanent, nerve, and dentist) in this word search. When you're done, rescramble the letters and play again.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dental Health
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Pre-K/Kindergarten dental health flipchart incorporates several links to fun and educational dental health games as well as assessment and interactive activities.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things:teeth and Nutrition
Learn about types of teeth, how our teeth develop, how our teeth differ from those of other animals, and how to keep teeth healthy.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Tooth and Teeth
Labeled illustrations of parts of the tooth and of the different types of teeth in the mouth.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net Lesson Plans: Tooth or Consequences
This resource provides several activities on dental care are described here. The activities involve a dental scavenger hunt on the Internet, watching a video, and reading a "Berenstein Bears" book about going to the dentist.