Germ and Health Lesson

Student Teacher’s Name: Katherine Yeacker

Domain/s (Ex. Social/Emotional) and/or Content Area (Ex. Science):

Social/Emotional and Literacy Standards

Age/Grade Level: Preschool (integrated classroom)

Where will learning activity take place:

-- Whole class

This will be whole group

State Standards:
I.3.c Exhibits a sense of humor
III.A.2.a Uses fingers and hands to accomplish fine motor tasks
III.A.1.a Controls body movements
III.B.1.a Participates in healthy care routines; engages adult or appropriately cares for self
IV.B.1.d Follows simple directions

Objectives:
Students will be able to relate to washing hands and coughing/sneezing.
Students can identify times when they need to wash their hands verbally.
Students can answer yes/no questions about when they should wash their hands.
Students can identify where they should cough or sneeze (into elbow).

Materials/Resources needed for the activity:

● Friends don’t Share Germs book
● Germ coloring sheet in resource folder
● Loofa (mine was blue, could use soft ball instead)
● Soap dispenser with pump
● Water or soapy water (I did soapy, more fun)
● bucket/ bin to catch water

Accommodations/Differentiated Instruction:
I will let students pick the number of pumps they want to do with soap dispenser. Class can
count with individuals if struggling, I can also help model.

Methods:

AnticipatorySet/Introduction:
Discussing what germs are, asking students. What do you do when you’re sick?

Strategies:
I will use read aloud, art integration, and physical response. My goal is to be very engaging with
my strategies and give students the opportunity to interact during read-aloud.

Guided Practice:
Students will read the book and discuss what to do when sneezing/ coughing/ washing their
hands. We will discuss when we should wash our hands and where we should cough/sneeze. I
will throw the “germ” loofa to students, they will catch, pretend to cough/ sneeze in elbow, and
toss the loofah back. I will work around the circle until all students have had a chance. Students
will each get a chance to pump the soap dispenser into the bucket. I will ask students “how
many times will you pump?” and then they will count aloud as they pump. I will tell students they
can play or come color (connect to our project construct room, offering choice here)

Independent Practice:
Students will color the germ color sheet.

Wrap-up:
We will talk about where the germs are/ are not in the art. Why is it like that? (before washing
there are germs, but after washing they are gone)

Assessment:
I will assess their use of one to one correspondence with pumping. I will also observe and
monitor during class read aloud to see student responses and engagement. During guided
practice, I will observe their response to teacher prompts and class discussion. I will observe
fine motor skills during pumping and gross motor during catching and throwing the loofah. I will
assess C’s reading on the coloring sheet and letter recognition.

Written reflection –
The students were able to identify many times they need to wash hands and that they shouldn’t
cough into their hands. C was able to read “wash your hands” and other words on the coloring
sheet. He was also able to deconstruct the words and say them in letter order “w--a--s--h…
wash” C loves letters and words, I asked him these questions and had him read it to the class to
help keep him engaged and excited. They were all able to mimic elow use, Q did not at first and
went to hand but then when reminded made the correction during circle time. Students laughed
and had a lot of fun with the germ toss. They also did a great job stating how many pumps they
wanted and completing that amount with one-to-one correspondence. ND counted with
one-to-one correspondence but continued to pump even after her specific number and I had to
remind her “you did 5 pumps, it’s the next friends turn now” and then she cooperated and did
not get visually/ auditorily upset. Ja colored his faucets on the coloring sheet grey and stayed
within the lines most of the time, consistent in his approach. ND noticed and changed some of
her faucets to pencil grey.