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Pre-K through Grade 2
Grade 3 through Grade 6
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Grade Levels Pre-K through
Grade 1
Estimated Teaching Time
20 minutes
Interdisciplinary Connections
- Listening and participating in a story (Language Arts)
- Counting to five in English and Spanish (Math, Language)
- Sharing a solution to a problem about germs (Social Skills)
- Mimicking hand gestures, including pointing, snapping, clapping
and waving (Music, Rhythm)
Objectives
Children will:
- Learn to identify ways germs are transmitted from one person’s
hands to another’s.
- Recognize appropriate times to get rid of germs by washing
or sanitizing their hands.
- Name ways to reduce the number of germs on their hands (and
bodies).
What Children Do
By listening and participating in a story, children will recognize
potential germ transmission between its characters, two friendly
hands. When one hand becomes covered with sneeze germs, the children
are called upon to help solve a problem: how can the sick hand play
with his friend without spreading germs?
Materials Required
Advanced Preparation
Before telling the story to the children, read over and rehearse
both the story and the hand gestures until comfortable performing
it.
Suggested Sequence
- Gather children in a place that they will be comfortable while
you tell them a story. Check to be sure that they can all see
you clearly.
- Explain that you will be telling a story about two friendly
hands. Review the concept of germ transmission, if necessary.
Discuss the things hands allow us to do [point, count, clap, snap,
wave, shake, hold], and what we know about how hands help spread
germs.
- Encourage the children to participate in the story. Practice
the following hand gestures with them: pointing, waving, snapping,
counting, clapping and high-fiving. Tell them to imitate these
movements as you do them throughout the story.
- Perform the story, “The Two Friendly Hands.".
Check for Understanding
- Ask children what they can do when playing with a friend to
keep from sharing germs? [Wash your hands and/or use hand
sanitizer: before and after play, before and after eating, after
sneezing and wiping your nose. Sneeze into elbows, shoulders or
a tissue instead of a bare hand.]
- Ask children to remember Hand’s and Mano’s story
when playing with others.
Extensions
- Create a class story about how two friends help keep each other
healthy by following good hand hygiene practices. Publish it in
your school or classroom newsletter, or share it with another
classroom.
- Have children illustrate Hand and Mano, by tracing their hands
(with teacher assistance) on colored construction paper and coloring
them.
Words to Share
- Germ transmission
- Hand hygiene
- Hand sanitizer
- Mano
- Sanitize
- Hand hygiene
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