Keeping Your Teeth Healthy and Strong

Teresa Gunter

2nd Grade

Keep your teeth strong and healthy!

Regular brushing is

important, but you must

take care to brush properly

to keep your teeth and

gums healthy.

Goal: Students will learn the correct names of their teeth, and the proper way to care for

their teeth.

• Use a diagram of a mouth to identify the correct names of teeth with 80% accuracy.

• View and match pictures with the correct terms showing children taking good care of their teeth with 100% accuracy.

Objectives:Students will:

Lesson Overview• Introduction: You use your teeth when you eat. Your

teeth are not all the same. You use different teeth for different things. That’s way it is so important to keep them healthy and clean.

• Directions: Read each question carefully and click on the correct answer. Once you have finished click on the button to go on.

• Time: You have 30 minutes to complete this lesson.• Goals: Learn that people have two sets of teeth.

Recognize the proper way to brush your teeth.

What do teeth do?

Which of the following statements are true?Click on the tooth to answer the question.

You use your front teeth to bite into food.

You use your back teeth to chew with.

You should brush your teeth once a day.

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Your Right!!!!

Your front teeth are sharp. They help you bite into food.

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That’s Right!!!

Your back teeth are wide. They can help you chew food so you can swallow it easily.

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Not True!!

You should brush your teeth every morning. Brush them before you go to bed. Try very hard to brush your teeth after you eat.

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Does this look familiar?

Most kids start losing their baby teeth at ages 5 or six. Think about the first tooth you lost.

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Why do you lose teeth?Your first teeth are your baby teeth. They grow in when you are small. They are also called primary teeth. Soon your baby teeth will begin to fall out. Don’t worry other teeth will grow in.

Primary Teeth

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The new teeth that grow in are called permanent teeth. Take good care of them. You should try to keep them for the rest of your life.

Permanent Teeth

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The order for brushing your teeth!

• Step one

Clean the outsides of the upper teeth.

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The order for brushing your teeth!

• Step two

Clean the outsides of the lower teeth.

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The order for brushing your teeth!

• Step three

Clean the insides of the upper teeth.

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The order for brushing your teeth!

• Step four

Clean the insides of the lower teeth.

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The order for brushing your teeth!

• Step five

Clean the tops of the upper teeth.

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The order for brushing your teeth!

• Step six

Clean the tops of the lower teeth.

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Check-upClick on the correct word for each sentence.

1.My front teeth___________ into food.

first chew bite

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Check-up

• My ______________ teeth are primary teeth.

first chew bite

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Additional Resources

Sorry that’s not correct!!!Use the hint below.

Your first teeth are your baby teeth. They grow in when you are small. They are also called primary teeth. Soon your baby teeth will begin to fall out. Don’t worry other teeth will grow in.

Primary Teeth

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You’re Right!!Your first teeth are your baby teeth. They grow in when you are small. They are also called primary teeth. Soon your baby teeth will begin to fall out. Don’t worry other teeth will grow in.

Primary Teeth

Go Back

Sorry that’s incorrect!!Use the hint below.

Your back teeth are wide. They can help you chew food so you can swallow it easily.

Go Back

Sorry that’s incorrect!!Use the hint below.

Your back teeth are wide. They can help you chew food so you can swallow it easily.

Go Back

Your Right!!!!

Your front teeth are sharp. They help you bite into food.

Go Back

Sorry that’s incorrect!Use the hint below.

Your front teeth are sharp. They help you bite into food.

Go Back

Summative Assessment Look at the diagram and fill in the blanks with the correct

words. Use the clues at the bottom for help.

1.________Teeth

2. ________ Teeth

1. Your first teeth are your baby teeth. They grow in when you are small.2. You should try to keep them for the rest of your life.

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Summative AssessmentRead the sentences, look at the pictures and write the correct answer. For extra help move your mouse over the pictures.

1. Clean the outsides of the upper teeth. Step________

2. Clean the tops of the upper teeth. Step_______

3. Clean the tops of the lower teeth Step_________

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Follow-up ActivitiesAdditional Resources

• COLGATE KIDS’ WORLD – NO CAVITIES CLUBHOUSEhttp://kids-world.colgatepalmolive.com/

• Simply Teeth http://www.simplyteeth.com/category/child.asp

• SPARKLE CITY http://www.crest.com/crest_kids/index.jsp

Web link resources

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