LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Identify a range of potential issues as well as health benefits associated with personal hygiene habits.

HEALTH ED STANDARDS

NHES 7: Practice health-enhancing behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks.

CASEL COMPETENCY: Self-management

Lesson Plan: Personal Hygiene

Read our head-to-toe guide for looking, feeling, and smelling your best.

PREPARING TO READ

Before you read the article “Everything You Need to Know About Personal Hygiene,” ask your students the following pre-reading question:

How can practicing good personal hygiene help you look and feel your best?

READING AND DISCUSSION

  • Have your students read the article “Everything You Need to Know About Personal Hygiene”; read the article out loud to them; or have students partner-read the article out loud.
  • After they’ve read the article, revisit the pre-reading question. Have their answers changed?

BUILDING COMPREHENSION AND VOCAB

Check students’ comprehension of and engagement with the story with the following assessment tools:

  • Comprehension Quiz

EXPANDING SEL OPPORTUNITIES

Continue the learning journey with the following extension activity:

Have students work in groups of three to create posters about the importance of good personal hygiene, using information from their article and their own research. Students should include at least three different facts in their poster related to personal hygiene. They should also use a variety of art tools, such as magazine clippings, markers, crayons, construction paper, or others. This is an opportunity to get creative and to make the poster as colorful, informative, and eye-catching as possible.

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