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The Learning Focused Lesson Plan

Name: Miss Stephanie Bohn
Date: May 1, 2014
Grade: Pre-Kindergarten
Focus: Dental Health Tooth Brushing
PA Standards for Pre-Kindergarten: PA Keys:
10.1.3.1 Fundamentals of Good Health: Identify fundamental practices for good
health.
Essential Question:
How do we keep our teeth healthy?
Student Objectives:
Students will compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy foods.
Students will demonstrate the importance of brushing ones teeth.
Students will perform an experiment to determine the impact that brushing has
on teeth.
Students will identify transformations.
Students will understand concepts of good hygiene.
Vocabulary:
Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tooth, Brush

Healthy, Unhealthy,
Floss, Toothpaste,
Toothbrush

Cavity, Plaque

Materials:
Parent Packet
Elmo Brushing Teeth Video Clip:
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Science Bulletin Board
Empty Egg Cartons
Yarn
Tooth Brushes
Pointer
Hard Boiled Eggs
Cola
Water

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Cups
Laminated Mouths
Science Journals
Tooth Sheets Healthy and Unhealthy
Pictures of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods in differentiated envelopes by color
(refer to color groupings below)
The Tooth Book by Dr. Seuss and the Visiting the Dentist by
Brown and Yellow Expo Marker
Whiteboard Eraser
3 Laminated Eggs
Paper Towels
Crayons, Pencils, Markers

Modifications: (Completed through Independent Activity and Large Group Activity)

Yellow Group (Group 1-Low): Alex, John, Matthew

o This group will be sorting four pictures to determine what foods are
healthy and unhealthy for ones teeth.
Blue Group (Group 2-On Target): Sophia, Kaitlyn, Kevin
o This group will be sorting six pictures to determine what foods are healthy
and unhealthy for ones teeth.
o Red Group (Group 3-High): Mary, Courtney, Ryan, Chris
o This group will be sorting seven pictures to determine what foods are
healthy and unhealthy for ones teeth. They will also be drawing another
food that is healthy for their teeth on a provided card.

Accommodations:
Mary needs to sit near the front of the group during seat work and carpet time to
eliminate issues with her vision.
Courtney and Kaitlyn may not be seated next to each other during carpet time
and may not work together during pair share or group work for behavioral
reasons.
Activating Strategy:
1. When students come into the classroom, they should be directed to go to their tables
and start practicing flossing as they learned earlier in the week. They should
pretend the egg cartons are teeth and the yarn is dental floss. They should practice
the proper flossing technique. The Tooth Book and the Visiting the Dentist book
should be displayed.
2. Teacher should encourage students to duplicate the proper flossing technique that
they learned the previous day in class using the egg cartons and yarn.
3. Teacher will ask students to recall why it is important to floss their teeth.
4. Teacher takes student answers.

5. Teacher will explain that flossing is one way to keep our teeth clean. People can
also visit the Dentist as well to get their teeth checked and cleaned. Refer to the
Visiting the Dentist book that was previously read to them. Refer to the pictures of
dental tools, the dentist, and the tooth diagrams located on the bulletin board.
6. Teacher will ask students if they can recall how many teeth they as children have.
(20) Teacher will point to the bulletin board to help the children.
7. Teacher will ask students if they can name another action that they could perform to
help keep their teeth clean. Give students a hint: It involves toothpaste and should
be done two times a day. (Teacher holds up two fingers.)
8. Teacher will take student answers.
9. Teacher will explain that it is important to brush their teeth as it removes plaque or a
film on ones teeth that forms when the teeth are not brushed. Cavities can form
when teeth are not brushed, too.
Teaching Strategy:
1. Teacher will pass out the mouths that the students created the previous day that
have been laminated.
2. Teacher will ask the students if they notice anything different about their teeth
that they created. (Some teeth have yellowed.)
3. Students should analyze the mouths they were given and describe/discuss what
they can identify as different.
4. What do you think that yellow film is? (plaque)
5. What do you think we could do to remove the plaque from the mouth? (brush the
teeth)
6. Students should infer that brushing would remove the plaque from the teeth.
7. Teacher will explain that because the teeth were not brushed, the students
should brush the teeth.
8. Teacher will ask the students if they brush their teeth and when they do it.
Students should pair share with a person near them using the question: Did you
brush your teeth this morning?
9. Teacher will tell students that we will watch a video clip on how to brush our teeth
and then we will practice brushing the teeth.
10. Teacher will play Elmo Youtube video clip on brushing teeth (link above). While
the video clip is playing, teacher should encourage students to get up and move
and dance to the music.
11. Teacher will pass out tooth brushes and have the students brush away the
plaque. Teacher will model on the science board how to brush the plaque away.
12. Teacher will explain that we will be doing an experiment that demonstrates why it
is important to brush teeth using toothpaste.
13. Teacher will show children hard boiled eggs.
14. Teacher will ask the students what color the eggs are.
15. They are white just like our teeth.
16. Teacher will ask students to recall that yesterday we started an experiment as we
dropped our eggs in soda to soak overnight.

17. Teacher will invite students to look at the eggs that they had yesterday that
soaked overnight in soda.
18. Teacher will ask students to recall the Our Experiment section on the bulletin
board. Yesterday we decided the eggs were white.
19. Before handing out the soaked eggs, teacher will ask students to predict what
they think will have happened to the egg.
20. Teacher will pass out eggs
21. Are the eggs still white?
22. Teacher will allow for student answers.
23. Teacher will explain that the teeth get stained just like the eggs. The shell is very
similar to our teeth. The teeth are stained with the soda and have turned brown.
Teacher will color one laminated egg brown and attach it to the science board for
after soaking section on the My Experiment page.
24. Teacher will put students in small groups of 2 or 3 students.
25. Teacher will pass out tooth brushes out.
26. Teacher will squirt a strip of toothpaste on each childs toothbrush and have
students brush their eggs.
27. Sing brush your teeth song:
(To the tune of: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Brush, brush, brush your teeth.
Brush them twice a day.
When you do this every day,
You keep plaque away!
28. Students perform the procedures of proper tooth brushing techniques to show
how toothpaste cleans teeth when using a tooth brush.
29. Students will investigate what happens when the eggs are brushed.
30. What happens after the egg is brushed? It is white again.
31. Teacher will attach a laminated white egg on the board to the after brushed
section of the My Experiment page of the science board to show the progression
of the eggs appearance.
32. Teacher will ask students to predict what they think would happen if the
eggs/teeth would not have been brushed.
33. Teacher will take student answers.
34. Teacher will explain the teeth/eggs could have gotten cavities from poor dental
hygiene.
35. Teacher will ask students if they feel it would be important to brush their own
teeth at night and in the morning.
Summary:
1. Teacher will refer to the healthy and unhealthy teeth on the bulletin board. We
talked about different ways we can keep our teeth clean. Keeping our teeth
clean is important as teeth are needed for chewing, talking, and smiling. If we do
not keep them clean, then we will not be able to chew, talk, or smile properly.
Keeping our teeth clean not only involves brushing, but also eating healthy foods.
Refer to the shield on the bulletin board that shows the different ways teeth can
be kept healthy.

2. Teacher will pass out unhealthy and healthy teeth papers and envelopes.
3. Teacher should explain that inside their envelopes are different pictures of
healthy or unhealthy foods.
4. Can anyone think of any foods that might appear in these envelopes and what
might be healthy or good or unhealthy or bad for ones teeth?
5. Allow students to work independently to analyze their pictures to compare and
contrast the pictures. Students will construct their own diagrams, using the
pictures provided, of healthy and unhealthy foods that will help or hurt our teeth.
6. Students share answers and come up to bulletin board to categorize the pictures.
7. After the sorting activity is finished, teacher should pass out science journals and
show the children page 3 that has to do with brushing. Let them practice tracing
the letter B and to color the page.