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💚 2nd Grade · Health & SELNHES 7Unit 3: Healthy body habits

Teeth and dental health

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🎯 Objective: Students practice brushing and flossing.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Practice on egg carton teeth.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: how long to brush?

Lesson 4 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

NHES 7

National Health Education Standards + CASEL SEL competencies (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe healthy eating, sleep, hygiene and activity

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

⏱️ Countdown timer😀 Emotions dice⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Healthy body habits”

  1. Handwashing and germs
  2. Healthy foods
  3. Sleep and screens
  4. Teeth and dental health

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