This unit includes both primary and intermediate activities for a dental health/teeth study.

Plan:

UNIT ACTIVITIES
Make a Tooth Model • Make a Book
The Tooth Fairy Came Last Night - Poem
My Teeth Chant • Play a Game • Teeth Graph

Make a Tooth Model top

You will need: marshmallows and toothpicks

INTERMEDIATE
For older children, supply them with fresh mini-marshmallows and toothpicks. Instruct them to break toothpicks in half and connect 12 marshmallows together with toothpicks, then repeat it. Form both rows into a U shape and stack on top of the other. Put a toothpick through each end to connect and set a folded paper towel between the set. Let set to dry and you'll have a fine set of choppers.

PRIMARY
For smaller children, make a large set of teeth out of large marshmallows as a class project. Assign some students to flatten marshmallows for incisors, flatten and clip corners of the marshmallows for the canines and indent the molars by pressing a paper wad in the middle. Attach them in the correct order; three molars on the side on the ends, one canine on each side and four incisors across the front. Let dry and use the model to point out how food can get stuck in ridges and spaces. Practice flossing with some yarn.

TYPES OF TEETH printable version printing or viewing problems?

Make a Book top

Copy the tooth book printable page for each child. Instruct them to cut along dotted line and assist them in folding it like card. (Fold top to bottom line, then left side to right.) Discuss the pictures at the bottom and ask them to describe each tooth. Emphasize any words they may need to know for the text.

For early readers, ask them to frame the word big on page one, little on page two, shiny on page three, and loose on page four. Let them glue pictures in correct places and pair them to read the book to a partner.

The Tooth Fairy Came Last Night top

PRIMARY-INTERMEDIATE
Read the poem and fill in the blank with the correct coin or dollar amount that rhymes. printable version | printing or viewing problems?

The Tooth Fairy Came Last Night

Yesterday I lost a tooth
When I ate a lime.
The tooth fairy came last night
And she left me a _______________.

Yesterday I lost a tooth
When I ate a pickle.
The tooth fairy came last night
And she left me a _______________.

Yesterday I lost a tooth
Just like cousin Jenny.
The tooth fairy came last night
And she left me a _______________.

Yesterday I lost a tooth
It fell on the fence.
The tooth fairy came last night The tooth fairy came last night
And she left me a _______________.

Yesterday I lost a tooth
It fell on the fence.
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