Activities Overview
Level I

 

1 - I'M ILL

Objectives
- Get pupils to discuss past illnesses (childhood diseases, contagious diseases).
- Explain the reason for a temperature: an organism's defence against attack from outside. Above 38ºC is a high temperature, and you should stay home.
- Show the relationship between germs and infectious disease.
- Talk about the people who look after children: parents, school nurses, doctors, etc.

Material: Pupil's sheet no1

Time: 30 minutes.

2 - BUURKI HUNTING


Objective 
Teaches the child that:
- Germs are everywhere in daily life.
- You cannot see germs.
- Not all germs are bad.

Material: Pupil's sheet no 2

Time: 30 minutes.

 

3 - BUURKI, ARE YOU THERE?


Objective 
Teaches the child that even in the classroom germs are everywhere, but not all of them make you ill.

Time: 15 minutes.

Method 
 - Ask each pupil to touch an object or a place where he thinks there are no Buurkis,
- Explain that Buurkis are everywhere, even if you cannot see them,
- State the low proportion of Buurkis i.e. disease-causing germs.

 

4 -PETRI DISH EXPERIMENT


Objectives
- Realize the presence of germs in my surroundings and particularly on my hands.
- Show the importance of washing hands thoroughly.
- Find out a good way to wash hands.

Material
- 4 petri dishes (or more).
- Adhesive tape - Pupil's sheet no 3

Time: 1 30-minute session + 10 minutes observation for 2 days.

Method
- In 4 petri dishes, do the following experiment:

- Identify and close the dishes with adhesive tape.
- Leave the dishes at ambient temperature, but out of direct sunlight.
- Observe the 4 petri dishes every day, analyse progress and fill in the pupil's sheet.
- Encourage suggestions on the degree of traces in the dishes - what do they relate to?
- Everyone draw a conclusion, using as evidence connection between germs and the traces left by dirty hands:
the more traces there are, the more germs on the hands.
- Conclude on the necessity of thorough hand washing and describe the procedure we should use.

 

 

5 - WARNING - WET PAINT!

Objectives 
- Show how germs are transmitted: germs we receive and germs we pass on.
- Teach the importance of hand washing, to get rid of germs and not to pass them on.

Material: Container and paint (paint can be replaced by chalk).

Time: 15 minutes.

Method 
- Put some paint into a container. Call the paint Buurkis/germs.
- Ask one or several children to put a hand in the paint and then shake hands with another child, catch a balloon and pass it to another child, etc.
- Add paint by putting the hand back into the paint from time to time, to show how germs proliferate.
- Make the children understand that hand washing can get rid of the paint, i.e. germs.
- And so, germs are not passed on.

 

6 - DIFFERENT TYPES OF HYGIENE

Objectives 
- Understand that hygiene is part of our daily routine.
- Identify different types of hygiene: personal hygiene, food hygiene, hygiene at home and hygiene with pets.

Material: Board or large sheet of paper.

Time: 1 hour.

Method
- Some days before, ask pupils to cut out objects or products relating to hygiene from catalogues at home: each child to cut out one object only. (If he wishes, the teacher can ask the children to bring in a product or object linked to hygiene.)
- On the day, put all the cut-outs (or objects and products) together.
- Everyone to say the purpose and usage of the different objects or products, and then share them out.
- Define four major classifications of hygiene and stick the images on the board in 4 columns. Each column can be labelled with the corresponding Netoon.

 

 

7 - GOOD HYGIENE

Objectives 
- Touch on rules of general daily hygiene.
- Work through understanding of the text.

Material: Pupil's sheet no 4

Time: 45 minutes.

Method 
- Hand out the text and get the class to read it.
- Talk through the text, replying to questions orally and then in writing.
- Finish by clarifying the different ideas of hygiene discussed.

Correction
- The house is cleaned properly.
- Feel clean and healthy.
- Always.
- Food correctly stored and cooked; a daily food routine.
- Disinfecting gets rid of germs.

 

8 -WORDS FOR CLEAN AND DIRTY


Objective 
Reinforce knowledge on hygiene.

Material: Pupil's sheet no 5

Time: 30 minutes.

Method
The exercise can be done individually, in small groups or collectively.

 

9 - LET'S MAKE HYGIENE A DAILY THING!

Objectives 
- Realize that there are different levels of hygiene.
- Introduce the next steps.

Material: Pupil's sheet no 5

Time: 30 minutes.

Method
- Hand out the sheet to groups of two.
- Do the exercise.
- Finish by clarifying the different levels of hygiene studied.

Correction
- The telephone.