Dental Health Mini Unit

Title: Dental Health Assessment

Subject: Health, Science

Grade: First

QCC Objectives:

Topic: Dental Care

Standard: Recognizes practices for proper dental hygiene.

Topic: Science Inquiry, Process Skills and Problem Solving

Standard: Asks questions, makes and keeps simple records of observations, sorts and classifies objects, communicates with others, makes predictions, uses estimation and measurement, and makes sketches and diagrams to explain ideas.

Specific Lesson Objectives:

The students will have learned:

• the important reasons for brushing their teeth.

• the scientific method, including the concepts of observation, hypothesis and experimentation.
• the effects of decay and the need for good oral hygiene.
• the destructive nature of plaque acid in their mouths.

Materials:

• Tooth assessment handout

Procedures: Students will receive a dental health assessment sheet that will be completed individually. Grades will be given accordingly. The students’ science journals will be collected and used as a science grade for this unit.