Caring for your teeth helps you stay

healthy. What are teeth? Why do we

need our teeth? How can we effectively take care of them so

that we can avoid cavities and

maintain these precious possessions throughout our entire lives?

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Graphic from Children and Youth Health

YouTube video

Click the picture to play the video

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Tasks

Print out the note-taking sheet. After you complete each task, record the various methods that you learned that you can use to care for your teeth. Also, record additional facts and/or detail about each method. (Hint: Some of the methods repeat throughout the different tasks.)

1.) Go to World Book Kids to learn more about teeth. After reading the article, complete the comprehension check.

2.) Watch the Caring For Teeth video from BrainPOP Jr. Complete the easy quiz. Print out your score.

Complete the hard quiz. Print out your score.

3.) Go along for a trip with Colgate as they learned How to Have a Bright Smile! As you interact with the story, listen for even more ways that you can care for your teeth.

Tasks

1.) Practice choosing appropriate foods for your teeth by playing Dental Distress.

2.) Do you know how to effectively brush your teeth? Test your skills by playing Brushing Your Teeth!

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LookingforDental.com

Children’s University of Manchester

Summative Assessment:

Scenario: Your friend Ben just got back from the dentist. During his visit, the dentist found four cavities. He told Ben that he needs to do a better job when it comes to taking care of his teeth.

Assignment: Create a Popplet that demonstratesfour effective methods that Ben could use when it comes to taking care of his teeth. If your schoolhas Inspiration or Kidspiration you may also usethat software. Your poster should include a title,four methods to use when caring for your teeth, additional factual detail that you learned from theinformation sources, and clip art for visual appeal.See the assignment rubric for more details

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Clip art provided by Google Images

Learn More:

Interactive Activities:

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Complete a Destiny Search

for Additional Books

Watch an Interactive Video on Flossing Your Teeth from Colgate.com

Create a “Day in the Life of a Tooth” Comic Strip!

Dental Word-O-Rama from LearningGamesforKids.com

Test Your New Knowledge by playing the ADA’s

“To Tell the Tooth”

Checkout the BrainPOP Video that Discusses What Happens When You Visit the Dentist

BCPS Curriculum

Grade 3 Health/Library Media – Unit: Healthy Habits – Lesson: Dental Care

Maryland State Curriculum

Standard 3.0: Personal and Consumer Health – Topic A: Personal Health Maintenance

Indicator 1: Explain how to improve or maintain personal health – Objective B: Describe

behaviors to promote overall body health, such as visiting the doctor, exercising,

adequate nutrition, practicing hygiene, and avoiding hazards.

Common Core State Standards

Reading: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Writing: 7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

Standards for the 21st Century Learner

1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g. textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.2.1.3 Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular areas, real-world situations, and further investigations.

Maryland Technology Literacy Standards for Students

3.0 : Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.

Time Frame:3-4 50 minute sessions

Differentiation: Direct students to use comprehension tools included in

databases, such as: audio read-aloud, closed captioning, labeled reading levels, and embedded pictures and diagrams.

Please look at the Curriculum Guide to get more ideas for differentiation.

Can be taught as a whole group lesson

Learning Styles: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Reflective, Global, &

Sequential

AVID Strategies: The following AVID strategies are supported in this lesson: inquiry based learning, quick write, and use of Costa’s and Bloom’s questioning.

Notes to the teacher: Usually taught in the 1st semester of 3rd grade according to

the Office of Health Designed for individual research instruction Students can print out notes/assessments or save them to

a teacher or student drop folder. If a computer lab is not available, this lesson may be

implemented in the classroom or library using an interactive whiteboard or printouts of the linked digital resources. The Popplet or Kidspiration poster can also be completed on regular poster paper.

= Basic Level = Challenge LevelLast update: July 2013

Created by Diane Pfeifer linked to email address Edited by Ashley Weber BCPS Research Module or Slam Dunk Model, Copyright 2005, Baltimore County Public Schools, MD, all rights reserved. The models may be used for educational, non-profit school use

only. All other uses, transmissions, and duplications are prohibited unless permission is granted expressly. This lesson is based on Jamie McKenzie’s Slam Dunk Lesson module available at http://questioning.org/module2/quick.html.

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