Teeth and Dental Health
Fresh approaches for teaching about teeth and dental care
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
Teach about caring for teeth and dental health with these lesson plans.
Presents a lesson about teeth incorporating reading aloud, graphing, and counting.
Propose a lesson in dental hygiene requiring students to listen to and comprehend readings and write about their experiences with going to the dentist.
A lesson plan for teaching students the necessary steps to maintaining dental health and hygiene.
Teach your students all about teeth and use this unit as a guide. Students also discuss their experiences at the dentist.
When the Magic School Bus shrinks and goes into Arnold's mouth, the children watch his teeth chew food! The kids meet up with much smaller pieces of the food again in the stomach. In this activity, children learn about digestion.
Children will learn how to find information in print and nonprint sources and develop observational, literacy, and language skills as they learn about the importance of caring for their teeth in this ready-to-use teaching idea for three- and four-year olds. Activity: Health and Hygiene.
Extension activity for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone.