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Dental Detectives
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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Let's Talk Teeth
Complete a number of activities in this group of lessons about dental health and teeth. Your elementary students will like the projects like making teeth models, reading a book, writing poetry and diagramming teeth.
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Dental Health Word Jumble
In this dental health learning exercise, students unscramble the letters in 20 words to spell vocabulary pertaining to healthy teeth. There is a word bank.
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A Teeth Changing Experience
Students research human health by reading an educational story in class. In this oral health lesson, students identify the importance of brushing their teeth and consuming calcium. Students read the book A Teeth Changing Experience and...
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National Dental Hygiene Month Lessons
Learning about dental hygiene can be interesting with lessons that explore math, science, and the vocabulary of dentistry.
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When Do You Brush Your Teeth? --Class Venn Diagram
In this math worksheet, students collaborate to make a tally mark Venn diagram which shows what time of day students brush their teeth: morning, evening or both.
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Dental Health-Alphabetical Order
In this dental health worksheet, students alphabetize a set of 16 words found at the bottom of the page. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Dental Arithmetic: Sugar Clocks
Students analyze data about their teeth. In this data collection lesson plan, students determine how often their teeth should be brushed during the day. Students also estimate the amounts of sugar in 17 foods.
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The Dentist
Students read a short story about visiting a dentist. Then they use toothbrushes in order to demonstrate the correct way to brush teeth. Students use the internet to investigate how some foods are healthier for teeth than others. Then...
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Graph Around the Room
Students discuss the importance of taking care of their bodies. They brainstorm ways to take care of their bodies. They create a graph.
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Mathematics In You
Learners construct ratios using the hand as data. They use examples of cortical and trabecular bone found in the long bones to measure circumference, diameter, length, and weight of long bones. They perform computations using growth...
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What Toothpaste Do You Use?
Students collect data about their favorite toothpaste and then graph the results of that data. They survey 15 of their friends to determine which toothpaste they use the most often and then color the graph to reflect the survey results.