Materials
9" paper circles in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
colored chalk or dryerase markers: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
eraser
chalkboard or dryerase board
Instructions
1. Ask the children if they have ever been to the dentist. Engage the
children in a discussion about what role the dentist plays in the
community.
2. Ask the children if their dentists have encouraged them to eat specific
foods and to avoid other foods.
3. Make a list with two columns. Label the first column, "Food my dentist
recommends" and the second column, "Food my dentist does not
recommend." Put the foods the children name in one of the two
columns.
4. Put the list up on the wall in the classroom for the children and their
families to see.
5. Later in the week, bring in some foods from the "foods my dentist
recommends" column. Ask the children to identify these foods, and say
whether they are good or bad for their teeth.
6. Provide samples of the food for the children to enjoy as a snack.
Teacher - to - Teacher Tip
l Collect pictures of other animals that have teeth, such as horses, snakes,
dogs, sharks, cats, guinea pigs, ferrets, rabbits, chinchillas, and walruses.
You may want to compare their teeth to ours and to other animals'
teeth. Why are they different from each other? (Different diets)
Assessment
To assess the children's learning, consider the following:
l Do the children understand what role the dentist plays in the
community?
l Can the children say if a dentist would recommend a particular food?
