My Wonderfully Changing Body

GRADE 5

LESSON 4

Time Required: 30-45 minutes

Content Standards:

AA.S.7 Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes

and
interpersonal skills to help them understand
and respect self and others.

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Objectives

Understand how personal responsibility affects the larger community.

Understand the necessity of appropriate personal hygiene, and its effects
social relations.
Develop a positive attitude toward self as a unique and worthy person.

ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success

1. Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy balance of mental,

social/emotional, and physical well-being
2. Self-confidence in ability to succeed
3. Sense of belonging in the school environment
4. Apply media and technology skills
5. Gather evidence and consider multiple perspectives to make informed
decisions
6. Demonstrate ability to assume responsibility
7. Demonstrate personal safety skills
8. Demonstrate ability to manage transitions (to 6th grade) and ability to
adapt to changing situations and responsibilities
9. Use effective oral and written communication skills and listening skills
10. Demonstrate social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation
and environment

WV Student Success Standards

1. Work collaboratively to solve problems, complete tasks, and/or investigate

topics of interest
2. Explore a variety of learning opportunities inside and outside of the
classroom
3. Maintain concentration over a reasonable amount of time despite
distractions and interruptions
4. Accept guidance and direction from a variety of adults
5. Independently make choices
6. Develop positive relationships with peers, other children and adults
7. Show respectful and caring behavior towards others

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8. Use appropriate communication skills to initiate and join activities and

complete varied learning tasks
9. Set goals, develop a plan and follow it through to completion
10. Exhibit respect for physical boundaries, rights and personal privacy in
relation to personal safety

GOAL: Students will comprehend the necessity of appropriate

hygiene practices and their effects on social relationships.

Activity Statements:
1. Students will be able to identify, define, and understand vocabulary
words relating to body changes and personal hygiene.
2. Students will discuss the American cultural values about cleanliness of
body and clothes.
3. Students will discuss how personal hygiene affects friendships and
relationships during the middle years of school and beyond.
4. Students will discuss what makes famous people attractive to their
audiences- pointing out the stars grooming habits in comparison to their
own.

Materials:

Dictionary or Internet access

Chart Paper (or white/chalk board)
Magazines
Markers
Handout 1: No Sweat

Procedures and Discussion:

1.

Instructors will assign the following for homework the class before
the assignment: Bring in a picture of your favorite TV, movie or

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music personality. It can be anyone from TV or movies or music, but

they must be a "real" person (no cartoon characters).
2.

Instructor will visually project or write the following words for

students to learn as vocabulary: water, dermis, heat,
antiperspirants, bacteria, apocrine, androgens,
bromhidrosis, and puberty. Divide students into groups of 4-5.
Be sure that each group has a recorder. Assign each group 5 of
the words. Ask them to find definitions for as many of the words as
they can within a 10 minute time span. They do not have to look up
the words in any order. After 10 minutes, call time. All writing
ceases. Have the recorder for the 1st group go to the board/chart
paper and summarize the definition for one word on their list. Go
around the room until all words are defined. Ask the students what
they think they will be learning about.

3.

Next, instructor will ask students to take out the picture they
brought from home. If they did not bring a picture, they should
write down the name of his/her favorite actor/actress, or music
personality. If they brought in a picture, have them write the name
of this person on the picture (for those of us who may not know who
this is). Collect the papers. Post picture in front of the class, then
read the choices aloud. Ask the students what these people have in
common and use a chart or the board to write the words they use to
describe similarities. Urge students toward the physical
characteristics. If they have not already said it, explain that one
thing these people have in common is that they are attractive
people.

4.

Instructor will ask and discuss the following with the class:
a. Does an attractive appearance simply "happen" or do these
celebrities have to work at it?

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b. What do you think these celebrities do to keep themselves

attractive?
c. What if you met the celebrity of your dreams, and this person
had bad body odor? What would you think if the celebrity had
torn dirty smelly clothes when you saw them? What would you
do? How would you feel about this person then?
d. Ask students to define or explain what personal hygiene is. List
the examples they give on the board. List should include:
shower/bath, clean clothes, brush teeth, deodorant, wash hair,
etc.
e. Go back over the list one-by-one. Let students problem-solve
how each should be done. How often should baths/showers be
taken? Clothes washed? Teeth brushed? Deodorant used?
f. How does bad hygiene affect relationships with friends? Should
a friend talk to another friend who is having problems with
hygiene? Whose responsibility is this?
g. End by telling students that some parents will remind them to
shower/bathe, wash clothes or wear clean clothes, brush teeth,
use deodorant, wash hair everyday from now until you are 18;
others won't. Remind the students that they are old enough to
take care of these things themselves.

Additional Resources:

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Crump, Marguerite, No B.O.!, free spirit publishing, Minneapolis, MN, 2005.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/PEPersonalHygieneResponsibility3.htm
Lesson written by- Robin Sumner : robin.sumner@mcsk-12.org; Adapted
for 5th grade and LINKS by Myla Kreinik: mkreinik@access.k12.wv.us
Ask the school nurse to visit, perhaps bringing samples of antiperspirants
and soap for each student that have been donated to the school

Extension Activities/Evaluation:
Handout 1: No Sweat: A Quest To Understand Body Odor
Complete at home.
After collecting Handout 1, ask students if they know how to deal with
body odor. Ask for specific examples.

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School(2009)

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School(2009)