KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

PROFESSIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAM
LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate: Abriana Hammen Date:

Cooperating Teacher: Mrs. Reichert Coop. Initials:
Group Size: 25 Allotted Time: 25 minutes Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject or Topic: Science: Cavities Section:

STANDARD: (PA Common Core):

10.1. K.C1: Identify foods that keep our bodies healthy.

I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes)

The kindergarten students will be able to identify healthy food vs. unhealthy food by completing a
worksheet.

II. Instructional Materials

- Smart board
- 1 paper towel with tooth drawn on it for each student
- Black marker for each student
- Eye dropper with water for each student
- Good food vs. Bad food worksheet
- Glue
- Scissors
- Cavity Power Point

III. Subject Matter/ Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea, new content)

Prerequisite Skills:

The kindergarten students will need to know what plaque is.

Key Vocabulary:

Cavity: a decayed part of a tooth.

Big Idea:

The kindergarten students will write identify what a cavity is and be able to identify which foods are good
for their teeth and bad for their teeth.

New Content:

The kindergarten students will be able to identify food that is good for their teeth vs. bad for their teeth.

IV. Implementation

A. Introduction –

- To introduce the lesson, pass each student a paper towel with a tooth drawn on it, a black marker and a
cup of water.
- Tell the students to make a black dot on the paper towel.
- Demonstrate how to do so.
- Inform the students that they will be using an eye dropper to put a drop of water onto the dot on their
paper towel.
- Demonstrate how to use an eyedropper.
- Have each student put water onto the dot on their paper towel.
- "Do you see how when you added water to the dot it spread all over the tooth? That is what happens
when you have a cavity and do not take care of it. It starts to spread over the whole tooth causing it to be
damaged. Today we are going to be talking about cavities."
- Have students move the paper towel on the floor underneath their desks.
- Collect eye droppers.

B. Development –

- Display a picture of a tooth with a cavity on it.

- "This is what a cavity looks like."
- Point to cavity on the picture.
- "A cavity is a small hole in a tooth. You can get a cavity when you do not properly brush your teeth. We
talked about plaque and how it sticks on your teeth and you have to brush your teeth to keep it off. Well if
you do not brush your teeth every day, the plaque starts to build up on your teeth and you can get a
cavity."
- "Plaque is bad for your teeth because it has a lot of germs. When you eat or drink something that has a
lot of sugar, the sugar and the plaque on your teeth mix together and make acid. The acid is what makes
holes in your teeth. So if you already have plaque on your teeth and you are eating bad foods like cookies,
ice cream, chips, all the sugars from those foods are mixing with the plaque and causes cavities to
spread."
- "There are foods you can eat that are good for your teeth and foods you can eat that are bad for your
teeth."
- "Let's see what foods are not good for our teeth."
- Show PowerPoint of foods that are good for teeth vs. bad for teeth.
- Go over the foods on PowerPoint.
- "Candy and junk food all have a lot of sugar in them. Remember when we mix sugar and plaque
together it causes acid and makes cavities spread. Foods like eggs, vegetables, and fruit all have protein in
them which helps keep the bad bacteria away from your teeth."
- "Please take out your tool boxes, you are going to need your scissors, glue, and a pencil. Then you can
put it back in your desk."

C. Closure –

- Pass out good teeth vs. bad teeth worksheet.

- "You are going to cut out all of the pictures of food. When you are done cutting, you are going to sort all
of the food as good for your teeth or bad for you teeth."
- Show the worksheet that has "bad" teeth on it. Inform students that they are putting all the foods that are
bad for your teeth on this worksheet.
- Show the worksheet that has "good" teeth on it. Inform the students that they are putting all the foods
that are bad for your teeth on this worksheet.
- "Let's see which group can sort everything first. They can add something to our party jar!"
- Walk around and observe/assist students.

D. Accommodations / Differentiation -

- Instead of a PowerPoint of good food and bad food, have a discussion with the students on what they
think is good for your teeth and bad for your teeth, write the answers on the board and talk about them.

E. Assessment/Evaluation plan
 1. Formative:
 The students will be assessed through the collection of the good teeth and
bad teeth worksheets.
 The worksheets will be able to show if the students correctly identified
which foods were good for their teeth vs which foods were bad for their
teeth.
2. Summative: No summative

V. Reflective Response

A. Report of Students’ Performance in Terms of States Objectives (Reflection on students

performance written after lesson is taught, includes remediation for students who failed to meet
acceptable level of achievement)

B. Personal Reflection (Questions written before lesson is taught.)(Reflective answers to

questions recorded after lesson is taught.)

- Was I able to grab the students’ attention with my introduction?

- How could this lesson be improved?

VI. Resources

Plaque Attack! (2005). Retrieved from

http://www.mouthhealthykids.org/~/media/MouthHealthy/Files/Kids_Section/Educators
%20Materials/lifetime_module02_plaque_attack.pdf?la=en