Brianna Brady

Lesson Plan: Personal Health& Wellness

Title:
Wash Those Germs Away!
Time Frame:
60 Minutes
Age Level:
Kindergarten
Health Topic:
Personal Health& Wellness: Hand Washing/Personal Hygiene
Objective:
1. I can describe what it means to be healthy (PHW 1.2.10)
2. I can place picture cards in the correct order for steps to washing my
hands (PHW
1.2.4)
**I can identify a situation that needs a decision related to personal health&
wellness, such as when to wash my hands (Extension Objective: PHW 5.2.1)
**I can identify a realistic short-term goal to improve my personal health&
wellness (Extension
objective: PHW 6.2.1)
Standards:
Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health
promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision
making skills to enhance health.
Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal setting
skills to enhance health.
Outline:
This lesson plan is created to build student knowledge on what it means to
be healthy. The objective is to get students practicing personal Health Skills,
such as hand washing and demonstrating their knowledge of it. In conclusion
students will be able to identify when are proper situations to wash their
hands, and set a personal health goal for them. Student will be assessed
through a series of interactive worksheets, situations, and discussion.
Hook/Introduction:
Reading:
This opens the discussion for germs through a fun book that kids can
become engaged in.

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Glitter Experiment:
This can be started a series of different ways, it depends on how you
would like to do so, and depends on the students in your classroom as
well. You can have one students have glitter on their hands and each
student in the class passes this glitter along through a handshake or
you can place balloons filled with glitter on a sheet in the classroom
and have them popped and demonstrate the spread of germs in a
sneeze or cough.

Lesson Procedure:
Intro: (20-25 minutes)
-Begin by calling the class to the rug for circle time, you are going to start by
introducing the idea of germs through a book.
-Read A Germs Journey by Thom Rooke M.D.
-Discuss on what it means to be healthy, write down kids ideas/thoughts to
create a master sheet of all their ideas. To get children involved in the
discussion or give them ideas you can ask:
-What does being healthy mean?
-What does being healthy look like?
-How are you healthy?
-What things do you do to be healthy?
Make sure children understand that all answers are right answers and that
we all can be healthy and practice healthy skills in all sorts of ways.
-Explain health outlines:
-what we eat
-our emotions
-personal health/hygiene
-physical activity
-safety
-etc.
(Create this master list of what it means to be healthy with words and
pictures to display in your classroom as a reminder to students to stay
healthy and how they can do so!)
Experiment: (15 minutes)
Say: We are going to focus on our personal health and personal health
habits
Depending on how you want to do the glitter experiment you can have kids
stay in the circle and draw a stick for who gets to start the glitter handshake
train, or have them go to the sheet where the glitter filled balloons are and
you will draw sticks for who gets to pop the balloons as well.

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**Understand that some students may not respond well to the popping of the
balloons, know your students well enough to know which activity would be
right and appropriate for your classroom.
Make sure children understand the balloon is meant to represent a cough or
sneeze and how the germs spread all over from that pop.
Say: See how easily germs are spread, if we remember to wash our hands
at appropriate times, we can decrease the spread of the germs. If we dont
wash our hands after they are dirty of might have germs then we spread
those germs to other things and other people who might get sick because of
it.
Applying the skills: (10-15 minutes)
Send kids back to their desk and hand out cards with steps for hand washing.
Have them cut out the steps and order then in correspondence to how they
think we should wash our hands.
After that have a check to see how they did in comparison to the correct
answers. Then have them transfer their cards to a solid sheet of paper and
glue the steps on in the correct order. Have them bring this home to place
near a sink where they wash their hands, so they can practice good hand
washing skills.
Materials:
Discussion:
Large paper or Elmo/computer screen to write down kids idea on being
health, later you then will have to create the master in larger version to hang
in the classroom.
Book:
A Germs Journey by Thom Rooke M.D.
Experiment:
Either glitter, glitter infused hand sanitizer, or glitter in a balloon (sheet to
place it on).
Worksheet:
-Hand washing cards
-Scissors
-Glue
-Extra Plain Sheet (to glue correct order of cards on)
**Additional Materials for Extensions:
Worksheet:
-When to Wash Your Hand situational Worksheet

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-My personal health goal worksheet

Extension Ideas:
1. Create a Situation where you would need to wash your hands. The prompt
is started for the kids, so the might put: You should wash your hands . . .
after you play outside in the mud. Then you would draw the according
picture above.
2. Create a Health related short term goal. Students will be given a
worksheet that they will need to write down their goal (best they can), and
draw a picture of what their goal is. These can be placed in the hall or
classroom or brought home (teacher can decide).
Assessment:
Discussion: Will be assessed just based on participation within the group
Place Cards in order for Washing Hands: Will be assessed based on if they
complete the assignment, they should have the correct order because it will
be given to them after they sort them around. (Answer Key attached).
**Extension:
Both Worksheets will be assessed based on completion.

Hand Washing Steps: ANSWER

KEY

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