1st Grade Health Lesson: Hair Care

I.

Standard
Standard 2: The student will understand the importance of personal hygiene
practices as related to healthy living.
2.1 demonstrate essential personal hygiene practices;
2.2 identify the importance of good versus poor personal hygiene practices
II. Essential Question(s)
What are some ways to take care of your hair?
What can happen to your hair if it is not taken care of properly?
What happens if you get head lice?
When should you brush your hair?
III. Lesson Goal
Students should be able to identify proper ways to take care of their hair.
Students should be able to show you how to wash their hair.
Students should be able to show you how to brush their hair.
IV. Objective(s)
The students will demonstrate to the class the proper way to take care of
you hair.
The students will describe what to do if someone has head lice
V. Prior Knowledge
The children will have prior knowledge of washing their hair.
The children will have prior knowledge of brushing their hair.
VI. Procedures
A. Hook
I will read the children a book about hair care.
Have the school nurse come in and introduce the children to what lice are
and how to prevent it. The nurse could wash a baby dolls hair in the sink
to show the students the proper way to do it.
B. Focus
I will teach the children about proper hair care. For some, it might be hard
to understand. Others, it will be very easy. I will also make sure the
students are aware of what can happen to their hair if not taken care of.
C. Curriculum Correlation
This lesson is relevant because having clean hair is always a good thing. In
order to prevent students from getting lice they must wash their hair on a
regular basis. Students should know how to brush their hair. If a student
does not learn that, the student the student has a chance at getting head
lice. Hair care is very important part of taking care of your body.

D. Guided Practice
Each student will bring in a baby doll (or toy that has hair) and practice
washing their hair. The children will learn from this exercise and wash
their own hair the same way.
E. Independent Practice
Each student will be able to go to their respective homes and wash their
own hair by themselves.
The student can teach their siblings and parents how to wash their hair.
F. Closure
The students will be able to wash their hair properly.
The students will know how to prevent lice.
VI. Assessment
The students will take a sheet home to their parents for their parents to
sign if they wash their hair properly without help.
I will ask children questions about what the nurse taught them about hair
care.
VII. Questions
How can you prevent head lice?
How do you wash your hair properly?
Name some ways to take care of your hair?
Name something that you learned from the nurse?
VIII. Accommodations
Students with hearing/visual impairments should sit in the front of the
class.
X. Materials

Shampoo
Conditioner
Baby doll(or other toy with hair)
Book about hair care
hair