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Healthful Living Education — Grade 2
Goal 2: The learner will develop knowledge and skills to enhance personal and consumer health.
Objective 2.02. Summarize methods for preventing the spread of germs through food, water, air, and touch.
Additional related resources
We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.
General resources
- Find additional resources for teaching Healthful Living Education — Grade 2.
Aligned lesson plans
- Growing cooties
- This lesson teaches the importance of washing hands to reduce the spread of germs. In this lesson, students will see mold develop over time on a potato as the result of handling the potato with dirty hands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
- By Ronda Odenwelder.
Resources on the web
- Physical health
- The purpose of this lesson is to identify how germs are spread, the diseases they can cause, and how hand washing can help prevent the spread of germs. In this lesson, students will learn about some of the health habits that are essential for maintaining... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Healthful Living)
- Provided by: Science Netlinks
- Germy surfaces
- In this Science Update, students explore how long a germ can hand around on surfaces. Dr. Don Goldmann, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital in Boston suggests that cold viruses can live for up to six hours outside the human body. This... (Learn more)
- Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 1–2, 4, and 6 Healthful Living)
- Provided by: Science Netlinks
- Catching the bug for reading through interactive read-alouds
- This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate to help students learn reading strategies and how to prevent the spread of germs in their classroom. Students... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Healthful Living)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
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