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What Is Respiratory Infection? Lesson PlanWhat Is Respiratory Infection? Lesson Plan
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Peel-Public Health
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4th - 8th
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What Is Respiratory Infection?

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This What Is Respiratory Infection? lesson plan also includes:
  • Growing Micro-organisms
  • Hand Cleaning Word Scramble
  • Healthy Hygiene Word Search
  • Escape From Germs! #1
  • Escape From Germs! #2
  • Escape From Germs! #3
  • Are You A Germ Stopper?
  • How Much Do Your Students Know?
  • Healthy Hygiene - Get It?
  • Answer Key
  • Activity
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Empower your pupils to be germ stoppers! The heart of these lessons lies in stopping the spread of germs and keeping clean hands in order to prevent cases like a respiratory infection. It includes a game to simulate how germs can spread easily and rapidly through simple handshakes, as well as a variety of other worksheets and activities on identifying different types of bacteria and illnesses that germs can cause.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

infections, cleanliness, bacteria, germs, illness, personal hygiene, handwashing

Additional Tags

health

Instructional Ideas

  • Extend your lesson with a conversation on the meaning of personal hygiene as a whole, and how it is both polite and safe to maintain cleanliness

Classroom Considerations

  • Similar to many science experiments, some of the activities will require purchase and preparation of additional materials
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Large collection of supplemental materials (see included materials)
  • Includes answer keys
  • Wide variety of collaborative, hands-on learning experiences

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.4.1 RI.4.4 RI.4.7 RI.5.1 RI.5.4 RI.5.7 RI.6.1 RI.6.4 RI.6.7 RI.7.1 RI.7.4 RI.7.7 RI.8.1 RI.8.4 RI.8.7

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