THE IMPORTANCE OF

SKIN
MS. FORE
3/22/17
VIDEO

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1.Why do you think skin is
important?

2.Who can tell me one

important job skin has?

3.Does anybody have any

fun facts about skin
that they already know
that they would like to
share?
 TURN & TALK:
How do you think your skin protects you
and keeps you healthy?
 ACTIVITY EXPECTATIONS:

1.Take turns placing your hand in the water. Do not get

mad at your table peers.
2.Use good manners. Please no splashing your hands
around.
3.Listen closely to the directions.
 1. The glove for this activity
represents your skin and the
ACTIVITY DIRECTIONS pepper represents the germs
2. Place one glove on your hand
3. Take turns dipping your hand in
the container on your table
4. Take your hand out of the
container and observe what
happened
5. Take the gloves off and dry your
hands
6. Make a small slit in one of the
fingers in your gloves using the
scissors very carefully
7. Repeat the experiment and
1.How did the glove represent skin?
2.How did the pepper represent germs?
3. What happened when we dipped our glove into the
water first?
4.What happened when we tore our glove and dipped it
into water?
 The glove did not allow any pepper to get in.
Similarly, when we have healthy skin it does
not allow germs to get inside. However, when
our skin gets cut or if we did not have skin
germs would get inside like when our glove
was cut.
Skin is very important because it protects us
and helps us keep germs and infections out.
Three important jobs of skin:
1. protect our bodies from germs
2. help keep our bodies at the right
temperature
3. allow us to have a sense of touch.
MUST DO & MAY DO
Must Do May Do
In your composition books: On a separate sheet of
Imagine waking up one paper:
day without your skin. You Choose one way we can
may look very different care for our skin and
and kind of scary, what make a poster to help
are some problems that your classroom peers
you may face? remember your skin-care
What is one way that we tip.
can care for our skin to
keep it healthy?
On a sticky note (place on
whiteboard when done):
What is one important job