Teaching Themes
Teeth and Dental Health: Everything You Need
Fresh approaches for teaching about teeth and dental care
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities
Let's Take Care of Our Teeth!
Grades: 1–2, 3–5
Shares a lesson plan for teaching students the necessary steps to maintaining dental health and hygiene.
Book Resources, Lesson Plans, Extension Activities
Let's Learn About Dentists!
Grades: 1–2, 3–5
Propose a lesson in dental hygiene requiring students to listen to and comprehend readings and write about their experiences with going to the dentist.
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 Dental Health Words Matching GameGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students review how to care for teeth with this matching game in English and Spanish. |
 Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Lesson Plans, Extension Activities Let's Learn About Teeth!Grades: 1–2, 3–5 Presents a lesson about teeth incorporating reading aloud, graphing, and counting. |
 Writing Activities Let's Brush Our Teeth!Grades: 1–2 Teach your students all about teeth and use this unit as a guide. Students also discuss their experiences at the dentist. |
Activity Plan 3-4: Caring For Our TeethGrades: PreK–K Children will learn how to find information in print and nonprint sources and develop observational, literacy, and language skills as they learn... |
Infants & Toddlers/Health: Early Dental CareGrades: Early Childhood, Infant, PreK–K, 1–2 Dental care begins before children's teeth are showing. Here are some tips to keep a healthy smile. See "Infants & Toddlers: Sleeping &... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus for LunchGrades: 3–5 When the Magic School Bus shrinks and goes into Arnold's mouth, the children watch his teeth chew food! The kids meet up with much smaller pieces... |
Book Resources, Discussion Guides My Tooth Is About to Fall Out Discussion GuideGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Discussion guide for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone. |
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Activities and Games, Book Resources, Extension Activities My Tooth Is About to Fall Out Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone. |
Book Resources Books for Teaching About TeethGrades: 1–2 Gayle Berthiaume, first grade teacher from Becker, MN, shares her best ideas for teaching the first and second grades. Great ideas and fresh... |
