Teacher Resource

• General Info:
  • On Teachers Pay Teachers there is a unit book called Personal Hygiene: Life Skills Unit,. that helps to teach personal hygiene skills in a classroom setting while also helping develop skills in literacy. It cost $1.50 and you will be sent all the downloads to the unit to print out whenever you wish. It comes with worksheets, lesson plans, and hands on activities for kids. This website is good for teachers who want to be able to download whole units or lessons at a time and have every worksheet or activity all in one place to be easily accessible. This website has a lot of free options for worksheets and activities that can be downloaded straight to your computer.  

• Core Integration:
  • During this lesson, since there are many worksheets available, you would be able to other subjects and resources into the lesson. You could mesh this unit very easily into a core subject like reading and writing. There are many options for personal hygiene books available at the library. You could use these books as an opportunity for kids to develop their reading skills. Within the unit you can use the worksheets as a way to enhance students’ spelling and writing skills.

• Standards:
  • Standard One: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
    • PHW 1.5.1: Describes the benefits of personal health care practices such as tooth brushing and flossing, washing hair, and bathing regularly.
      • HBO 1: brush and floss teeth regularly. -HBO 2: practice appropriate hygiene habits.
    • PHW 1.5.11: describes symptoms that occur when a person is sick.
      • HBO 6: practice behaviors that prevent infectious disease.
      • HBO 7: practice behaviors that prevent chronic illness
    • PHW 1.5.12: explain how hand washing and and covering your cough and sneeze are effective ways to prevent infectious disease.
      • HBO 6: practice behaviors that prevent infectious disease.
      • HBO 9: practice behaviors that prevent foodborne illness.
  • Standard 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.
    • PHW 3.5.1 describes characteristics of accurate personal health and wellness information.
  • Common core standards: language arts-grade 4
    • RI 4.7: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively
    • W 4.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Parent Resource

• General Info:
  • Nationwide Children’s is a website created by a children’s hospital. A specific part of the website, title Helping Hands, provides access to a library of over 100 children’s medical conditions and health concerns — including bed bugs, dental hygiene, influenza, and hand hygiene. The website is easy to navigate and contains information regarding the health concern, as well as tip for parents that help them support the overall hygiene of their child. Before starting classroom lessons on personal hygiene, it would be beneficial to send out a newsletter (email and/or paper depending on the specific families) to parents that states some of the health topics being covered, and includes a link to the Nationwide Children’s website. The newsletter can explain that the website may be used as a resource to learn more about how to support the healthy hygiene habits of their child. If families do not have access to the internet, the teacher can print out specific articles at a family’s request.