INTASC Standard 5: Learning Environment

Standard 5: Learning Environment-- The teacher uses and understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning and self-motivation.
E1. Motivates students
E3. Create learning environments to promote self-esteem
E5. Effective classroom management
E7. Participation adds to learning
E10. Values lifelong learning
E16. Shares values and expectations

Health Lesson Plan for 4th Grade: Healthy Foods for Your Teeth

Lesson Goal:
- The students will learn which foods are healthy for their teeth and which ones are not.

Behavioral Objective:
- After a discussion on healthy foods for teeth, the students will identify which foods are good for their teeth or not on a “Healthy Foods” worksheet.
- After a discussion on healthy and not healthy foods, the students will create a collage of 10- 15 pictures healthy foods and a collage of 10-15 pictures of not healthy foods.
- After creating a collage on healthy and not healthy foods, the students will write one paragraph identifying the healthy foods and one paragraph identifying the non-healthy foods on their collage.
Time:
- 30 minutes

Integration:
- Written Language
- Art
- Communication Skills

Materials:
- Pencils
- Blank white paper
- Notebooks
- Scissors
- Glue
- 20-30 Magazines
- 25 “Fantastic Flosser’s Healthy Eating for Healthy Teeth” worksheets

Vocabulary:
- Hygiene: taking care of yourself, being clean
- Cavities: a decayed area in the tooth
- Enamel: a hard white substance covering the crown of the tooth.

Procedure:
Review with the students how to correctly brush and floss their teeth. (3 minutes)
How often should they brush their teeth?
Why is it important to brush and floss their teeth?
Is one more important than the other?
Ask the students if they know what dental hygiene means? (30 seconds)
Taking care of ones mouth/teeth area
Why might it be important? (30 seconds)
To keep your mouth clean
To know how to correctly clean your mouth.
Ask the students what else is important when it comes to taking care of your teeth. (30 seconds)
Brushing, flossing, rinsing
Going to the dentist
Eating healthy foods

Explain to the students we will be discussing healthy and not healthy foods for your teeth. (30 seconds)
Ask the students to make a list of good and bad foods on a piece of paper. (2 minutes)
Discuss what the students wrote down. (2 minutes)
Ask the students why certain foods are bad for teeth.
Tell the students to look at the different foods and categorize them into different food groups and see which foods are the best and not.
Explain that sugar gets into the enamel and cause cavities. (30 seconds)
Remind students of the apple experiment and how the pencil (sugar) caused the apple (tooth) to rot because it was not taken care of.
Hand out “Fantastic Flosser’s Healthy Eating for Healthy Teeth”. Explain the directions to the students. (30 seconds)
In one column they must write the names of the foods that are safe from your teeth. In the other column write the names of the foods that harm your teeth.
Give students time to work on the worksheet. (5 minutes)
Walk around and observe while they are working.
Discuss the answers when the students are done. (2 minutes)
Ask them if any of those foods were on their list they made before.
Do they eat any of those foods on a regular basis?
Tell the students before they move into the next activity, they will be having a guest speaker tomorrow and they all need to come up with one question. Have the students write one question on a piece of paper to give to the dental hygienist. (2 minutes)
Explain the collage activity the students will be doing. (3 minutes)
They will be making a collage of good things for your teeth and also a collage of what is bad for your teeth.
The students will have 10-15 healthy foods and 10-15 non-healthy foods on each of their collages.
The students will all hang their collages up around the classroom when they are finished.
The students will be required to write one paragraph about each of their collages they created. This can be written in their notebook and collected the next day.
The students can pick up materials needed for their collages.
Pick up questions for the dental hygienist from the students.
The students will work on their collages and written paragraphs until the end of class. (10 minutes)
Tell the students to write down what they eat for the rest of the day. Tell them it will be discussed and handed in the next day. (30 seconds)
If the students finish their work, they may present it to the class.

Assessment:
- The students will fill out a “Fantastic Flosser’s Healthy Eating for Healthy Teeth” worksheet with 95% accuracy.
- The students will create a collage of 10-15 pictures of healthy foods for your teeth and create a collage of 10-15 pictures of non-healthy foods for your teeth.
- The students will write one paragraph explaining the healthy foods they put on their collage.
- The students will write one paragraph explaining the non-healthy foods they put on their collages.

Home/Family Involvement and Extension:
- The students can share their collage with their families and discuss what foods they should be eating.
- The students will write down what they eat for the rest of the day and share it with the class the next day.

Resources:
P&G Crest & Oral-B Healthy Smiles Program. (2007). The Dental Defenders. Retrieved on May 20, 2008 from http://phschoolprograms.com/images/oralcare/oralpropdfs/EDPGM-3978-3EducatorsGuide2007FA.pdf. Page 10.


Health Education Standard:
- Students will comprehend health promotion and disease prevention concept.
- Students will practice health behaviors to decrease risks.

Performance Indicators:
- Students will identify foods that are good and bad for the health of their teeth.
- Students will identify foods they eat and evaluate if they are healthy for their teeth or not.