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What Keeps Your Mouth Healthy? Lesson PlanWhat Keeps Your Mouth Healthy? Lesson Plan
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What Keeps Your Mouth Healthy?

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Students dramatize the oral disease process caused by bacteria which leads to tooth decay.

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diseases, oral hygiene

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disease, oral health, health
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Grade
2nd - 4th
Subjects
Health
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Simulation

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