Teaching Themes
Teeth and Dental Health: Everything You Need
Fresh approaches for teaching about teeth and dental care
Let's Take Care of Our Teeth!
Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Listening Comprehension | Vocabulary | Expository Writing
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Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Early Reading | Literature | Reading Response
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Dental Health Words Matching GamePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Dental Health Students review how to care for teeth with this matching game in English and Spanish. Save To Organizer |
Let's Learn About Teeth!Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Early Reading | Guided Reading | Literature Presents a lesson about teeth incorporating reading aloud, graphing, and counting. Save To Organizer |
Let's Brush Our Teeth!Grades 1–2 | Writing Activities | Writing | Charts and Graphs | Human Body Teach your students all about teeth and use this unit as a guide. Students also discuss their experiences at the dentist. Save To Organizer |
Activity Plan 3-4: Caring For Our TeethPreK–K | Dental Health | Hobbies and Recreation | Hygiene and Prevention | Social Studies Children will learn how to find information in print and nonprint sources and develop observational, literacy, and language skills as they... Save To Organizer |
Infants & Toddlers/Health: Early Dental CarePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Infant | Early Childhood | Child and Infant Care Dental care begins before children's teeth are showing. Here are some tips to keep a healthy smile. See "Infants & Toddlers: Sleeping... Save To Organizer |
The Magic School Bus for LunchGrades 3–5 | Activities and Games | Lesson Plans | Human Body | Observation 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... Save To Organizer |
My Tooth Is About to Fall Out Discussion GuidePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Compare and Contrast | Summarizing Discussion guide for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone. Save To Organizer |
My Tooth Is About to Fall Out Extension ActivitiesPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Activities and Games | Book Resources | Extension Activities Extension activity for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone. Save To Organizer |
Books for Teaching About TeethGrades 1–2 | Literature | Book Resources | Dental Health | Science Through Literature Gayle Berthiaume, first grade teacher from Becker, MN, shares her best ideas for teaching the first and second grades. Great ideas and... Save To Organizer |








