Today's Classroom Activities :

Your Teeth

Know Your Teeth
Health Provide a diagram of the teeth in the adult human mouth. Ask students to record on the diagram over the next 24 hours the foods they eat, next to the teeth they think mainly work to break down that food type. Is any one type of tooth – incisor, molar, bicuspid – more important than another? Why?

Seeing Is Believing
Health/Science Provide four hard-boiled eggs and four clear glass jars. Fill two jars 2/3 full with cola and two 2/3 full with fruit juice. Place one egg in each jar. After 24 hours, remove one egg from the cola and brush it with a toothbrush and toothpaste. Record the results. Do the same with one juice-soaked egg. Repeat daily for one week, resubmerging the same eggs in their corresponding liquids. Leave two of the eggs (one in cola, one in juice) untouched for one week, then brush them at the end of the week. Record the results. What connections can students make between the experimental eggs and their own teeth?

Let's Talk Teeth
This unit includes both primary and intermediate activities for a dental health/teeth study.

Healthy Teeth: Hands-On Science Activities
Students will explain how each experiment illustrates the importance of brushing their teeth every day.

Oh No Dentist Day
The students will explore their feelings about their first visit to the dentist. The students will then write and illustrate their experience.

Brushing and Flossing to a Healthy Smile
This lesson teaches students that plaque that forms on their teeth can be removed with brushing and flossing.

Smile Smarts! is an oral health curriculum for preschool through grade eight students offering flexible, modular lesson plans, support materials, hands-on classroom demonstrations, student activity sheets, and suggestions for further oral health activities.

Losing a Tooth
Using these activities students will discuss the importance of dental care.