**Lesson Plan for Basic Science and Technology: Health and Hygiene**
**Grade Level**: Primary 3
### **OBJECTIVES**:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Define health and hygiene.
2. Understand the importance of personal hygiene.
3. Identify different hygiene practices.
4. Demonstrate proper hygiene actions.
### **MATERIALS NEEDED**:
- Whiteboard and markers
- Chart paper and markers
- Hand sanitizer
- Soap and water basin
- Toothbrush and toothpaste
- Towel
- Combs
- Picture cards showing various hygiene practices
- Worksheets for activities
- Projector (optional if digital content is available)
### **TOOLBAR**:
1. **Introduction** (10 minutes)
2. **Teaching and Explanation** (15 minutes)
3. **Demonstration and Participation** (10 minutes)
4. **Activities and Engagement** (15 minutes)
5. **Review and Recap** (5 minutes)
6. **Assessment** (5 minutes)
### **INTRODUCTION** (10 minutes):
1. Greet the class and make them feel welcomed.
2. Briefly introduce the topic: Health and Hygiene.
3. Ask students questions to elicit prior knowledge:
- "What do you do to stay clean?"
- "Why do you think it’s important to stay clean?"
### **TEACHING AND EXPLANATION** (15 minutes):
1. **Definition**:
- Health: A state of being free from illness or injury.
- Hygiene: Practices to maintain health and prevent disease, especially through cleanliness.
2. **Importance of Hygiene**:
- Prevents disease
- Keeps us healthy and strong
- Helps us feel good about ourselves
3. **Different Hygiene Practices**:
- Personal hygiene (brushing teeth, washing hands, bathing)
- Environmental hygiene (keeping surroundings clean)
- Food hygiene (clean food, proper storage)
4. **Demonstration and Participation** (10 minutes):
- Demonstrate how to properly wash hands using soap and water.
- Show how to brush teeth correctly using a toothbrush and toothpaste.
- Explain and show how to use a comb.
- Encourage students to participate in the demonstration.
### **ACTIVITIES AND ENGAGEMENT** (15 minutes):
1. **Group Activity**:
- Divide students into small groups.
- Provide picture cards showing different hygiene practices.
- Each group sorts the pictures into categories (personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, food hygiene).
2. **Worksheet Activity**:
- Distribute worksheets with hygiene-related tasks (matching, coloring, true/false).
### **REVIEW AND RECAP** (5 minutes):
1. **Interactive Q&A**:
- Ask review questions to reinforce learning.
- "What is hygiene?"
- "Why is brushing our teeth important?"
- "Can you name a practice for environmental hygiene?"
2. **Summary**:
- Summarize key points of the lesson.
### **ASSESSMENT** (5 minutes):
1. **Exit Ticket**:
- Ask each student to write or draw one hygiene practice they learned today and explain why it’s important.
### **WRAP-UP**:
- Congratulate the students for their participation.
- Announce any related homework or follow-up activities.
- Encourage students to practice what they learned at home.
### **HOMEWORK**:
- Ask students to maintain a cleanliness diary for a week and note down their daily hygiene practices.
### EXTENSION IDEA:
- **Science Connection**:
- Explain how germs spread and how hygiene helps protect us.
- Show a simple experiment with bread to visualize germ growth over days (one piece of bread touched with dirty hands, one with clean hands, and one left untouched).
This lesson plan aims to engage students through interactive activities, demonstrations, and discussions to instill a thorough understanding of health and hygiene practices.