A Tooth Adventure
A Web Quest for 1st Grade - Created by Michelle Mroz
Introduction / The Task / The Process / Evaluation / Conclusion
Smile! February is National Children's Dental Health Month. It's the perfect time to brush up on dental health habits. Follow this web quest and find out all about healthy teeth. After you learn five facts about teeth, you will be a "tooth expert." All of our tooth experts will receive a Sparkling Smile Certificate for completing this web quest!
Be Good to Your Gums!!!
Your job is to collect tooth facts on your fact sheet. You will work with a partner. You must show your tooth fact sheet to your teacher before you receive your Sparkling Smile Certificate.
Look
* Look at the pictures of two teeth.
Learn
* Learn some tooth facts.
* Answer questions about teeth.
Have Some Fun
* Read a book about teeth from the collection.
* Look at the tooth fun page and complete.
Print out your copy of the tooth fact sheet.
Answer the questions in the Web Quest on your fact sheet.
Step 1: Look at the two teeth pictures below. Write down two things about teeth on your tooth fact sheet that you know from these pictures.
Step 2: Look at the picture of the parts of a tooth. Copy the names of the tooth parts onto your tooth fact sheet.
Step 3: Teeth facts
Answer questions on fact sheet from this Internet page
Step 4: Choose one of the books about teeth from the collection and read it with your partner. You should both read one book.
The Berenstein Bears Visit the Dentist by Stan and Jan Berenstein (Random House 1981)
Arthur's Loose Tooth by Lillian Hoban (Harper & Row 1985)
Dr. DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Look at Teeth by Henry Pluckrose (Franklin Watts 1989)
The King's Toothache by Colin West (Lippincott 1988)
Step 5: Link to the tooth fun page, print out, and complete.
(Print out & complete with your teacher.)
You will complete this evaluation with your teacher. Be sure to bring your tooth fact sheet and your tooth fun page!
Are you "brushed-up" enough on your teeth facts? The next time you don't feel like brushing your teeth, think about this web quest and what might happen if you don't. Now the fun begins! You are ready to receive your Sparkling Smile Certificate!
Sample Sparkling Smile Certificate
Resources:
Tooth books - See Step 4
ftp://manteno.k12.il.us/graphics
http://www.dupagehealth.org/health_ed/dental_month.html