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Looking for ideas to add some
excitement to your health-related lesson plans? Here are
some Web sites to get started:
- Delta Dental's Kid's Club
(www.deltadentalnj.com; click Kid's Club at the
bottom of the home page) features games, cartoons
and a monthly dental trivia column that covers
everything from how ancient civilizations cared for
their teeth, to why Shakespeare wrote about the
misery of toothache, and the real story behind
George Washington's dentures.
- ADA Teacher & Speaker
Resources (www.ada.org/public/topics/teachers/classideas.html),
sponsored by the American Dental Association,
features resources, games, coloring pages and other
resources. Its newest offering is a downloadable
24-page packet, called "Oral Health Care
Classroom Presentations," which features
information, experiments and lesson plans to help
teach your students about oral health care.
Information is categorized by grade and age level.
- ADHA Kid's Stuff (www.adha.org/kidstuff/index.html),
sponsored by the American Dental Hygienists'
Association, features lots of dental-related
information geared for elementary school children.
The site features games, answers to common
questions, and tooth facts for kids.
- Kid's World (http://kids-world.colgatepalmolive.com),
sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive, features a wide
assortment of dental-related games and activities
for children ages 4 to 9. Colgate also offers an
award-winning educational program for teachers
called "Bright Futures Bright Smiles,"
which includes free multi-media classroom kits,
ideas for classroom projects, a free e-mail
newsletter, and more. To access this, go to http://colgatebsbf.com/teachers/tch_login.asp.
- Sparkle City (www.crestkids.com)
sponsored by Crest, features dental-related games
and activities for kids.
- Scholastic (http://teacher.scholastic.com),
sponsored by Scholastic, offers teacher guides,
lesson plans and materials on a wide variety of
subjects. To wow students about your knowledge of
dinosaurs, for instance, check out, "Answers to
Kids' Questions About Dinosaurs: Teeth," at http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/dinos/teeth.htm.
Among the things you'll learn is the T. rex had
teeth the size of bananas.
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