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Washing Hands

For Teachers K
Students formulate questions about a germ book before it is read to them. In this washing hands lesson plan, the teacher gets glitter on each students hands that represents germs. Before the teacher reads a book about germs the students...
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Tag, You're Sick

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students play a game to model how the immune system works. In this health and wellness lesson, the teacher explains how the immune system works, then students play a game of tag trying to stay away from germs, viruses, and bacteria and...
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Breaking News: Shopping Carts Covered in Bacteria (5th March, 2011)

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore current events by completing several worksheet activities. In this bacteria infections lesson, students read a current news story of the germs associated with shopping carts and how people should protect themselves....
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What Did I Touch Today?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate germs and how they travel. They graph the places in the classroom that have been touch by students to determine which five places have had the most contact. They write stories from a germ's point of view.
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Bird Flu

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how germs are spread. In this bird flu lesson, students read articles containing information about the bird flu and how to prevent bird flu, washing hands and germs. Students discuss these articles, participate in...
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Disease Prevention and HIV/AIDS Education

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss communicable and non-communicable diseases, and how germs travel from person to person through the air, on objects, in body fluids, and on animals and insects. They take a short quiz.
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Potato Experiment

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Spur a discussion of germs using this lesson. Learners conduct an experiment with potatoes to determine how germs are transmitted. They then discuss ways to prevent the spread of germs. The emphasis is on hand washing.
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The Case of the Classroom Cleanup

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete activities to learn about germs in their classroom and healthy habits. For this germs and health lesson, students participate in a classroom cleanup activity. Students draw germs on a poster of the classroom and...
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Preventing Germs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this germ prevention learning exercise, learners color each picture. Students draw a blue circle around the pictures that show germs being prevented. Learners make a red X through the ones that show germs being spread.
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Glitter Germs

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in a fun experiment involving glitter that teaches young children the importance of why they should wash their hands with soap and warm water. They explore that germs can easily spread if they don't properly wash...
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Germs

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss as a class how many of them have sneezed today. They then listen as the teacher explains that germs come out of their nose during a sneeze or when they blow their nose. They then discuss other ways that a person...
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Physical Health

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover and identify how germs are spread, the diseases they can cause, and how hand washing can help prevent the spread of germs. They learn about some of the health habits that are essential for maintaining good health.
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Germ Busters!

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students create healthy podcasts. For this personal health lesson, students apply their knowledge of viruses and bacteria to script and record a podcast to be shared with younger students as well as parents and administrators.
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Germs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders dicsuss germ. They discuss how they can't see them (germs), but they're everywhere! Students are asked if germs cause disease? They discuss some types of illnesses they get from germs. Students discuss ways inwhich...
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Germs Can Make You Sick

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore how germs are spread. For this science lesson, students practice good hand washing practices and discuss how washing hands can prevent the spread of germs.
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10 Tips for a Germ-Free School Year

For Students 5th
In these reading comprehension worksheets, 5th graders read a story about 10 tips for a germ-free school year. Students then answer 5 reading comprehension questions about the text.
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Colds and Germs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students determine how diseases are spread from one person to another. They investigate the importance of hand washing to reduce the spread of common colds and other diseases. They listen to teacher read alouds and complete an inquiry...
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Tissue, Please!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study the proper manners to reduce the risk of spreading or catching colds and flu. They discover good cold-season manners from reading aloud Tissue, Please! They complete an art project to reinforce good cold-season manner
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Changing Planet: Infectious Diseases Classroom Activity

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Here is a different approach: emerging epidemiologists first go home to interview family on the topic of infectious disease. Then they come to class and view a video and PowerPoint that explore how climate change may increase the...
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Count on Wet Ones??

For Teachers K
Students listen to fingerplay songs, clean hands with Wet Ones wipe or squirt of hand sanitizer, sing Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, discuss what would happen if monkeys were germs on their hands, and use their hands and...
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Big Sneeze

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss germs and how they get colds. They demonstrate the importance of covering their mouths while sneezing and what happens when the don't. They practice sneezing and coughing with a tissue.
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What Did I Touch Today?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe and adopt behaviors for health and safety. They explore what germs are and how they can make you sick. Through graphing activities, 2nd graders examine the way germs travel and what they can do to prevent the...
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Why Does My Body Smell?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how germs spread among people. In this health lesson, 4th graders discover the causes of infection and proper hygiene methods.
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Handwashing and Dishwashing

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students discuss the importance of correct hand washing and practice washing dishes. Individually, they examine the germs on their hands with Glo-Germ and compare it to the germs after washing their hands. To end the lesson, they...

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