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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dental Detectives

For Teachers 1st
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tooth or Consequences

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students listen to facts about dental health and watch a tooth brushing and flossing demonstration by the teacher.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Watch Your Mouth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the effects of tooth loss to their bodies.  In this oral health activity students complete several activities that help them determine how tooth loss effects nutrition, facial structure and jaw bones. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tooth

For Students Pre-K - K
For this coloring worksheet, learners cut out a picture of a tooth. Students can color the picture, add details, or make up a story about it.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Parts of the Body

For Students 4th - 6th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Healthy, Happy Teeth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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.
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things: Teeth and Eating

For Students 3rd - 5th
An interactive teeth and eating exercise followed by some research information on teeth. A quick quiz to check for understanding follows the activity.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Dental Arch Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive labeling exercise helps students practice naming human adult teeth.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Tooth Cross Section Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge of the anatomy of human tooth with this interactive labeling exercise.
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Website
Other

Teachingheart.net: A Teacher's Dental Health Page

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These lesson plans teach students the importance of good dental hygiene and feature crafts, games, books ,and songs.
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Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Theater: "Mithing Tooth" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Taking Care of Teeth

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource explains why healthy teeth are important, and how you can keep your teeth healthy are topics discussed in this site.
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Interactive
University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Teeth and Eating: Types of Teeth

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Interactive
University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Teeth and Eating: Structure of the Tooth

For Students 3rd - 5th
An illustrated guide to the different parts that make up a tooth.
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Article
Other

The Magic School Bus: About Your Teeth

For Students 3rd - 8th
This brief overview of human teeth also features a section on dental hygiene.
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Interactive
Other

Teeth: Online Word Search Puzzle (Grade 3)

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Whiteboard
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dental Health

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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.
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Interactive
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Living Things:teeth and Nutrition

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about types of teeth, how our teeth develop, how our teeth differ from those of other animals, and how to keep teeth healthy.
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Handout
Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Tooth and Teeth

For Students 9th - 10th
Labeled illustrations of parts of the tooth and of the different types of teeth in the mouth.
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Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net Lesson Plans: Tooth or Consequences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.