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Dental Health Lesson Plans
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Students develop pamphlets for a dental health mentoring program that educates younger students about caring for their teeth. They recall experiences at visits to dentists and consider why some students may have poor dental health.
Students present original dental presentations to younger students. In this dental health lesson, Pre-K and /or kindergarten students understand the does and don'ts for health teeth. Younger students answer what, where, when and why questions after the presentation.
Fourth graders investigate the types of habits that are necessary for good dental health. They use information provided from a variety of resources to make conclusions of the overall practice of dental hygiene. Then students produce a skit or poem to correlate with the subject.
Students explore dental health. In this dental health lesson, students use computers to access bookmarked websites about teeth, dentists, and dental health and discuss their findings with the class. Students complete a written activity sheet.
Students share what they know about dental health. They discuss which foods are good or bad for your teeth and conduct a simple experiment to test their ideas. They present their findings to the class.
First graders explore the concept of dental health, explore how to brush teeth correctly and demonstrate how to floss properly.
Students explore the concept of dental health. In this dental health lesson, students identify different types of teeth and how to take care of them. Students then chart dental care within the classroom.
Learners 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 techniques and motivate others to pursue good dental hygiene.
Students explore the use of smokeless tobacco. In this dental health lesson, students view a video about smokeless tobacco, observe pictures of mouth cancer on the Internet, and construct a class survey and pictograph.
Students complete a number of activities in this group of lessons about dental health and teeth. They make teeth models, a book, write poetry and graph teeth.
