Keeping Clean
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Video: Keeping Clean
Students discover that keeping clean and avoiding harmful germs helps them stay healthy. Students learn what germs are, and that hands pick up germs from the environment and are a primary means for germs entering the eyes, nose, or mouth. Petri dish and black light experiments show the effectiveness of hand washing.
Student Application
You'd be amazed where germs can get when you don't wash your hands well.
Learning Objectives
- Students will recognize that germs are present everywhere, especially on surfaces that are not sterilized. Germs are very small; consequently, people cannot see them without the aid of a microscope. Also, be aware that many germs are good, but some of them can cause health problems.
- Students will understand that people should ba...
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Supporting Activities
- Before viewing the video
- Make a class graph about keeping clean. Discuss the importance of being honest about your answers for our graph to be accurate. Record the answers and make a graph on the board, which older students may reproduce later. Ask, "How many washed your hands before breakfast, aft...
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- Make a class graph about keeping clean. Discuss the importance of being honest about your answers for our graph to be accurate. Record the answers and make a graph on the board, which older students may reproduce later. Ask, "How many washed your hands before breakfast, aft...
