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Health Education: Brushing Teeth
Second graders explore dental health as a topic. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders demonstrate the proper technique for tooth brushing and describe the benefits of good dental health.
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Be Kind to Your Teeth
What kinds of food can be bad for your teeth? Kindergartners and first graders explore dental health with an interactive science inquiry. Given a choice of foods such as celery, cake, and milk, kids choose which ones are better for their...
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Water from the Well
How much water does it take to brush your teeth? How about to wash your clothes? Perform an experiment that measures water usage in everyday tasks and compares them to the days before indoor plumbing, specifically the California...
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Let's Take Care of Our Teeth!
Students identify types of teeth, tools for teeth, the people and behaviors associated with dental care. Then, they create a list of ways to take care of their teeth. Students also create a chart of dental care using key terms and...
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Tooth Fairy Day
In this tooth fairy day worksheet, learners read or listen to the passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, unscramble the words and sentences, write discussion questions and conduct a survey.
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Spelling Activity
Sometimes you can add an s to a word to form its plural. Sometimes you can't. Help your class learn how to pluralize irregular words like calf, woman, and half. After, have them study the prefixes un, de, pre, dis, and re in the colorful...
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Silly or Sensible?
Is it silly or sensible? That's a great question, and it's the question that will drive this entire lesson. Learners with special needs and visual impairments work together to analyze verbal information. The instructor makes a statement,...
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Singular to Plural
In this singular and plural nouns activity, students read the sentences with singular nouns. Students then rewrite the sentences, changing the singular nouns to plural nouns and correcting other grammatical elements.
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ELL Reading and Reasoning - Going To the Dentist
In this ELL reading and reasoning learning exercise, learners read a short selection about a man's fear of going to the dentist. They answer 5 true or false questions, before writing a short essay telling how the man can relax while the...
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Good Habits
In this good habits worksheet, students complete the crossword puzzle with the terms about hygiene. Students finish 10 clues for the puzzle.
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Make a Difference!
We are very dependent upon other life forms around us to survive. Here, scholars explore relationships in the ecosystem with the help of Auntie Litter and the pollution patrol. They imagine a world without grass, making connections to...
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ASL Lesson 4
Provide your hearing-impaired or special-needs students with a functional ASL vocabulary focused on feelings and family. Lesson 4 in this extensive series allows you to view both images and videos of each word or sentence as it is...
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Comprehension: Identify Cause and Effect Relationships in Text
Third graders and their teacher work together to understand cause and effect relationships in texts. The I do, we do, you do method is used as learners discuss and determine the cause and effect relationships found in several short...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Giggle, Giggle, Quack (Cronin)
Farmer Brown has his hands full with a tricky duck in Norah Cronin's book Giggle, Giggle, Quack, the context of this vocabulary study. This text is available on YouTube if you can't find it. Before reading, introduce the high level...
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Introduce Vocabulary: "I Can't," Said the Ant (Cameron)
With both rhyme and a fun storyline, Polly Cameron's story "I Can't," Said the Ant is a useful resource for vocabulary in context. Emerging readers focus on five key words: cooperate, mend, nimble,...
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Sammy's Wish
For this reading response worksheet, students read a story about a boy's wish. Students give their opinion about the end of the story and have the opportunity to continue writing about the boy's adventures.
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Can you Follow Me? Conventions
Use the present tense to create written assignments. Critical thinkers take a passage written in past or future tense and rewrite it in present tense. They then write a set of instructions in present tense.
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What's Next?
Children listen to the story, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, and discuss the sequence of events. They create a booklet, sequencing the events in the correct order.
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ESL Holiday Reading Comprehension: Fresh Breath Day
In this ESL reading comprehension instructional activity, students read a passage about oral hygiene and Fresh Breath Day on August 6. Students answer 100 varied questions pertaining to the article. There is also a link to listen to...
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Dental Health: Cavities
For this dental care worksheet, students read five paragraphs about dental health and cavities. Students then answer several questions about the text.
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Learners prepare for school and relieve anxiety they might be experiencing in regards to beginning school. In this Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten lesson plan, students develop listening skills, produce rhyming words, and...
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Mr. Bean's Goes to the Dentist
In this video activity learning exercise, students watch a video of Mr. Bean. Students then answer the 10 questions about the video by writing complete sentences.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Sequencing Lesson
Students listen to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and summarize to story to demonstrate comprehension. They review the days of the week and create their own book.
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What's On Your Plate?
Young scholars keep running record of the activities they engage in and the food they eat. In this lesson on healthy living, students discuss the dangers of anorexia and bulimia, record their activity level and food consumption over the...