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Be Kind to Your Teeth

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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 teeth than others. Use the activity in your loose tooth lesson, or in a unit about the human body.

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oral hygiene, human body systems

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dental health, elementary health, human body, teeth health, science
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K - 2nd
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