Lesson Four – Healthy Teeth

This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and record some of the special ways of caring for the teeth to prevent tooth decay focusing on diet and a daily cleaning regime.

The class can design and make a daily timetable listing some of the ways of caring for teeth each day by brushing and eating the correct types of foods.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and record some of the special ways of caring for the teeth to prevent tooth decay focusing on diet and a daily cleaning regime

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify some of the different foods that are kind and unkind for teeth and a worksheet to identify and record different times of the day when they can care for and look after their teeth.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the special ways of caring for the teeth to prevent tooth decay focusing on diet and a daily cleaning regime.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify and compare the benefits of different types of foods including fruit and vegetables and discuss ways to care for the body using cleaning and exercise tasks. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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