Dental Hygiene: Healthy Smiles Lesson Plan

Candidate: Gabrielle Gregorie Date and Time of Lesson: February 4, 2013 - 9:00am School: Early Childhood Center Subject: Dental Hygiene 1. Curriculum Standards Addressed: Good Start Grow Smart Standards PD3. Personal Health: Children understand how daily activity and healthy behavior promote overall personal health, physical fitness and safety. PD-4K-3.2: Follow basic health rules most of the time. 2. Cross Curricular Connections: PD-4K-3.1: Perform some self-care tasks independently. 3. Instructional Objective(s) Criteria: Students will be able to successfully describe how to use proper dental hygiene, after they have been given a lesson about dental health. They will know what a dentist is, how to take care of their teeth, things that are good for your teeth, and things that are bad for your teeth. 4. Assessment(s) of the Objectives: Pre-Assessment- In small group discussion the children will be asked what a dentist is, what things are good for your teeth, what things are bad for your teeth, and how they can take care of their teeth. Anecdotal notes will be taken to record the students knowledge on dental health before the lesson. During Assessment- During the small group lesson, assess children on their ability to brush and floss the mouth model. Also, discuss foods that are good and bad for our teeth. Record the information and anecdotal notes on the during assessment chart. Post-Assessment- In small group discussion the children will be asked what a dentist is, what things are good for your teeth, what things are bad for your teeth, and how they can take care of their teeth. Anecdotal notes will be taken to record the students knowledge on dental health after the lesson. 5. Materials/Resources: A healthy and un-healthy tooth, and the certain foods to stick on them Book- My Bright Smile, I Know What To Do! by Kelly W. Lynch Mouth model L#: 00089529 Grade Level: 4K Cooperating Teacher: Cecelia Shelley Lesson Title: Healthy Smiles

Yarn (for flossing mouth model) Toothbrush Dental floss Toothpaste Mouthwash Mirror Childrens copies of My Bright Smile, I Know What To Do! in English and Spanish Toothbrush packets for each student 6. Prerequisites (Prior Knowledge): The students do not have prior knowledge on dental health, besides what they have learned at home. 7. Procedures: 1. Before teaching the lesson, evaluate students on the information they already know about dental hygiene. The pre-assessment asks students questions like What is a dentist? How can you take care of your teeth? What are things that are bad for your teeth? What are things good for your teeth? Through small group discussion, assess the children, document it on pre-assessment chart, and provide any additional comments. 2. On the day of the lesson, gather the students together to read a book and have a dental hygiene discussion. Begin lesson by discussing what we are going to do. Today we are going to learn about dental hygiene. We are going to read a short book about dental hygiene and then we will do a class activity to learn what types of foods are good for our teeth and what types of foods are bad for our teeth. After that in small group lessons, we will learn how to brush and floss our teeth. 3. Discuss new vocab like dentist, cavities, plaque, dental floss, and mouthwash. Some students may have never heard of these words that will be used in the lesson. 4. Have a class discussion about foods that are good and bad for your teeth. Explain to kids that foods like vegetables and milk can help our teeth be strong and healthy. Foods that have lots of sugars are not as healthy for our teeth. They leave plaque and can cause cavities. 5. Talk to children about how brushing their teeth, flossing, and using mouthwash can help to fight plaque and leave them with a brighter, healthy smile. 6. Read the book My Bright Smile, I Know What To Do by Kelly W. Lynch. 7. After the book, children will take turns placing certain things onto a healthy and un-healthy tooth. The healthy tooth will have items such as a toothbrush, vegetables, and milk. The un-healthy tooth will have items like soda, sweets, and pizza. 8. Talk to children about how these un-healthy items are still yummy and good to eat, but leave plaque on our teeth and can cause cavities. 9. Students will break up into small groups and have a mini lesson about how to floss and how to brush their teeth. They will use a small mirror took look in their mouth and see all of their teeth. They will take turns on the mouth brushing and flossing to understand the concept.

10. Students will receive their own copy of My Bright Smile, I Know What To Do, and their own toothbrush and toothpaste to take home. Students will put them in their backpacks and go to centers as the next group comes to have a mini-lesson. 11. During the mini-lesson, evaluate students on how well they can brush and floss on the model mouth. Also, discuss what types of foods we learned were good for our teeth, and what foods were bad for our teeth. Record discussion and demonstration of brushing and flossing on the during lesson assessment chart. 12. After lesson, discuss in small groups what a dentist is, how we can take care of our teeth, what foods are good for our teeth, and what foods are bad for our teeth. Gather knowledge of what students learned from the lesson and record information and anecdotal notes on the post-assessment chart. 8. Accommodations: For the children that are Spanish speakers, they will receive their own copy of the book we read in Spanish. For the children that are harder to work with and disrupt the class, have them sit on the floor near the teacher during the lesson, to keep them focused and less likely to disrupt. 9. References: Good Start Grow Smart Standards