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Pop Up Smiling!
Students research information on how to maintain oral health. They create informational pop-up books with instructions on proper dental health care. Afterward, they draw and construct relevant pop-up illustrations to demonstrate...
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A Teeth Changing Experience
Students research human health by reading an educational story in class. In this oral health lesson, students identify the importance of brushing their teeth and consuming calcium. Students read the book A Teeth Changing Experience and...
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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.
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Tooth Names
In this oral health worksheet, students examine the picture of the upper jaw and lower jaw teeth. Students label each tooth appropriately.
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Teeth And Eating
Students are introduced to several concepts about milk teeth and permanent teeth. They view photos of baby teeth, complete a worksheet that depicts their current tooth development and identify ways in which to care for permanent teeth.
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What Keeps Your Mouth Healthy?
Students dramatize the oral disease process caused by bacteria which leads to tooth decay.
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What Do Mouths Do?
Students discover the purposes and parts of the mouth, about oral health.
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Open Wide and Trek Inside!
Students explore, examine and study a module that focuses on the science of the oral environment and major scientific concepts relating to oral health. They investigate the process of tooth decay by interacting with stories and games...
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Open Wide and Trek Inside
Students explore, examine and study the importance of oral health. They become engaged in learning about the mouth, oral cavity and oral health and assess how to recognize that their mouth serves many purposes and has different parts.
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What Have You Learned about the Mouth?
Learners sequence the steps in a normal day that can lead to tooth decay and describe how to maintain a healthy mouth.
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society: Oral Cavity (Mouth) and Oropharyngeal (Throat) Cancer
The American Cancer Society provides a detailed guide on oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer. Content includes a focus on what this cancer is, its causes and risk factors, detection and diagnosis, treatment options, and how to talk with...
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Kids Health: Your Teeth
This resource provides this illustrated article about human teeth.
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Kids Health: Taking Care of Your Teeth
For teens, taking care of teeth isn't always a priority. This article goes through the history of brushing teeth, proper techniques for brushing, and the importance of regular brushings.
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Family Gentle: Pop and Cavities
Why is pop bad for teeth? This site from Family Gentle Dentistry provides facts that everyone should know about the dangers of drinking too much soda pop. "Sip all day and get decay," and other things is the overriding message.
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.
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.