Early Years Teaching Resources Students aged 3-5 are introduced to positive behaviours for hand washing, respiratory, and oral hygiene. Lesson plans are designed to complement the Early Years Foundation Stage framework. Download the complete lesson Preventing infection Hand Hygiene 50 ey-hh ey-hh Preventing infection Respiratory Hygiene 50 /ey-respiratory-hygiene /ey-respiratory-hygiene Preventing infection Oral Hygiene 50 /ey-oral-hygiene /ey-oral-hygiene Early Years Framework Tags "Communication and langu...
Early Years: Respiratory Hygiene This lesson supports children to learn how easily harmful germs can spread through sneezing. Scroll down to find out more and to download the resources. Download the complete lesson That sneezing into a tissue, or into a sleeve is the best way to stop the spread of cold and flu germs That there can be harmful germs in sneezes that can spread over hands The sequencing of hand washing and nose blowing Respiratory infections are infections that happen in the lungs, chest, si...
Early Years: Oral Hygiene This lesson supports children to learn how to brush their teeth and to understand that we brush our teeth at least twice a day to avoid tooth decay. Scroll down to find out more and to download the resources. Download the complete lesson Understand how to brush their teeth effectively Understand why it is important to brush our teeth Understand the link between sugar and tooth decay Dental health is extremely important; over 23% of children in England have tooth decay and it is ...
Key Stage 1 Teaching Resources Students aged 5-7 are introduced to positive behaviours for hand washing, respiratory, and oral hygiene. Lesson plans are designed to complement the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1. Download the complete lesson Micro-organisms Introduction to Microbes 50 /ks1-intro-to-microbes /ks1-intro-to-microbes Preventing infection Hand Hygiene 50 /ks1-hand-hygiene /ks1-hand-hygiene Preventing infection Respiratory Hygiene 50 /ks1-respiratory-hygiene /ks1-respiratory-hygiene Preventin...
Key Stage 2 Teaching Resources Students aged 7-11 years build on their learnings around microbes and hand, respiratory, and oral hygiene. They are also introduced to the concepts of useful and harmful microbes, food hygiene, animal and farm hygiene, vaccinations, and antibiotics. Lesson plans are designed to complement the National Curriculum for Key Stage 2. Download the complete lesson Micro-organisms Introduction to Microbes 50 /ks2-intro-to-microbes /ks2-intro-to-microbes Micro-organisms Useful Microbes...
KS2: Hand Hygiene Hand hygiene is one of the single most effective things children can do support preventing the spread of infection. By taking part in a classroom experiment, students learn how microbes can spread from one person to another through touch and why it is important to wash our hands properly. Scroll down for more information and to download the resources. Download the complete lesson Understand that infection can be spread through unclean hands Understand that handwashing can prevent the sp...
KS2: Introduction to Microbes Students learn about the different types of microbes – bacteria, viruses, and fungi. They learn that microbes have different shapes and that they are found everywhere. Scroll down to find out more and to download the resources. Download the complete lesson Understand that bacteria, viruses, and fungi are three main types of microbes Understand that microbes are found everywhere Understand that microbes come in different shapes and sizes and are too small to be seen by the nak...
KS2: Food Hygiene In this lesson plan, students will go through an interactive quiz which follows the process of preparing a meal. Along the way, students will have to make decisions about what to do next to maintain good food hygiene practices. Scroll down for more information and to download resources. Download the complete lesson Understand that microbes can be found on our food and can transfer to humans Understand that cooking food properly can kill harmful microbes Will understand that bacteria mult...
KS2: Animal and Farm Hygiene In this lesson plan, students play an interactive memory card game to highlight the similarities between human and animal health, and why animal hygiene is so important. Scroll down for more information and to download resources. Download the complete lesson Understand that what you do to help your pet be healthy is the same as what you need to do for yourself Understand that harmful microbes can be found on the farm and that these microbes can spread to humans Understand that...
Key Stage 3 Teaching Resources Students aged 11-14 years build on their learnings around useful and harmful microbes; hand, respiratory and food hygiene; vaccinations, and antibiotics. They are also introduced to the topic of sexually transmitted infections. Lesson plans are designed to complement the National Curriculum for Key Stage 3. Download the complete lesson Micro-organisms Introduction to Microbes 50 /ks3-intro-to-microbes /ks3-intro-to-microbes Micro-organisms Useful Microbes 50 /ks3-useful-microb...