My Hygiene

Why this is the best teacher internet resource:

The reason this was the best choice is because it gives specific health subject lessons, at any selected grade level. This provides a full lesson plan, interactive slides, review, and assessment tools for the lessons they provide. While other sites offer these options, this also has links to teacher resources based on the topic you selected. Additionally, it connects to “GONOODLE” a popular site that connects lessons with movement and interaction, to further students’ learning on the specific topic you chose. No other site we found provided so many additional resources.

Core Integration:

Although in a more indirect way, this also ties into Science lessons. It covers germs, and how to prevent them. As well as teaching about germs interacting with the body. Furthermore, it challenges students to create checklists to fulfill these hygiene goals. Practice in creating checklists is a useful skill for students not only in scientific practice, but literacy as well.

For a follow up assignment, students could write a few sentences or draw a picture of how this might relate to other scientific concepts (such as bacteria being made out of cells, which is what living things are made of, etc.).
The health standards this relates to are:

NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

• 2.1 Identify proper steps for daily brushing/flossing
  -HBO 1: Brush and floss daily
  -HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits
• 2.2 State why hygiene is important to good health
  -HBO 1: Brush and floss daily
  -HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits
• 2.3 Identify the benefits of personal health care practices such as washing hair and bathing regularly
  -HBO 1: Brush and floss daily
  -HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits
• 2.4 State the steps for proper hand washing
  -HBO 2: Practice appropriate hygiene habits
  -HBO 6: Practice behaviors that prevent infectious diseases
• 2.10 Describe what it means to be healthy
  -HBO 6: Practice behaviors that prevent infectious diseases
• 2.11 Identify different ways that disease-causing germs are transmitted
  -HBO 6: Practice behaviors that prevent infectious diseases
• 2.12 Identify ways to prevent the spread of germs that cause common infectious diseases
  -HBO 6: Practice behaviors that prevent infectious diseases

NHES 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

• 2.1 Identify situations that need a decision related to personal health and wellness (e.g. washing hands before eating, wearing sun protection, brushing teeth daily)

NHES 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

• 2.1 Identify a realistic short-term goal to improve a health or wellness practice
• 2.2 Take steps to achieve the goal to improve personal health and wellness

NHES 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

• 2.1 Identify personal health and wellness practices that reduce or prevent health risks
• 2.2 Make a commitment to practice positive personal health and wellness behaviorsThe core standards this relates to are:
• 1.1.6. Earth and Space Science: Characteristics of Living Matter: Understand characteristics of living organisms.
• 1.2. Structures: Understand how components, structures, organizations, and interconnections describe systems.
• 1.2.8. Life Systems: Human Biology: Know the external parts of the body.