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💚 4th Grade · Health & SELNHES 7Unit 4: Body systems, safety & medicine

Medicine safety

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🎯 Objective: Students explain safe use of medicine and only from trusted adults.

Lesson outline

  1. Candy or medicine?
  2. Discuss.
  3. Rules.
  4. Exit: one rule.

Lesson 2 of 3 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 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe how body systems work together
  • Use medicine safely
  • Practice personal safety

✅ 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

😀 Emotions dice⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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