Losing Teeth Around the World
Celebrating Our Differences, Exploring Our Similarities
Losing Teeth Around the World
By Patricia Horn and Gayle Berthiaume
Guiding Questions
Objectives
Materials / Resources
Technology
Engaging and Effective Activities
Assessment Methods
Enrichment/Extension Activities
By Patricia Horn and Gayle Berthiaume
Guiding Questions
- Everyone loses teeth when they get to be five or six years old.
• How are people around the world alike?
• How are people around the world different?
• What happens to other children around the world when they lose their teeth?
• What stories do we tell about losing teeth?
Objectives
- • To be able to compare and contrast different ways of dealing with a common event (losing teeth) across different cultures.
•To be able to create an iMovie HD project or iPhoto book about teeth or tooth stories.
Materials / Resources
- • Tooth questionnaire
• Throw Your Teeth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from around the World by Selby B. Beeler
Technology
- • Apple Learning Interchange
• Digital camera
• Computer
• iLife ’ [http://www.apple.com/ilife]
• iWork ’ [http://www.apple.com/iwork]
• Kidspiration [http://www.kidspiration.com]
• KidPix [http://www.mackiev.com/kid_pix.html]
Engaging and Effective Activities
- 1. Read a book about losing teeth around the world, such as Throw Your Teeth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from around the World by Selby B. Beeler. Then have a discussion about losing teeth and what happens to baby teeth after they fall out.
2. Using Pages or Kidspiration, make a classroom chart showing how many teeth students have lost. Don't forget to add a column for those students who have not lost a tooth yet.
3. Have each student take the tooth questionnaire home to have parents help them fill it out. When they are returned, discuss them in class. As a whole group, use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast their tooth stories. Enter a class summary of the various responses to the conversation area below.
4. Take photos of each of the children's smiles. Create an iPhoto book [http://support.apple.com/kb/VI196] with their smile and clues about the child based on their tooth information questionnaire. See if children can guess whose smile it is.
5. Using Kid Pix, each student should illustrate what happens to their tooth after it falls out. These drawings can be saved as .jpg and imported into iPhoto. Then the drawings can be used in iMovie HD. The student can record their story in the audio features of iMovie HD. The movie can be posted to the Apple Learning Exchange Gallery website.
Assessment Methods
- • Create a rubric to assess the students' movie projects.
Enrichment/Extension Activities
- 1. Create an iPhoto calendar [http://support.apple.com/kb/VI56 to keep track of when children lose their teeth throughout the year.
2. Read various stories from books about teeth or the tooth fairy. For example:
- • What Do the Fairies Do With All Those Teeth? by Michel Luppens
• Open Wide: Tooth School Inside by Laurie Keller
• How Many Teeth? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Paul Showers
• Dear Tooth Fairy by Alan Durant
• Nice Try, Tooth Fairy by Mary W Olson
- • Tooth Fairy Around the World [http://www.toothfairys.net/aroundtheworld.htm]
• Tooth Tally Project [http://wilburnes.wcpss.net/toothtally/tooth05.html]
Differentiation Strategies
- • The students can work in cooperative groups with students of varying abilities to make the iMovie HD projects.
Connections and Extensions
- • Repeat this lesson using toothbrushes as a theme. What are the different kinds of toothbrushes and toothpaste used around the world?
• Discuss dental hygiene.
- • How many times a day do you brush your teeth?
• How often do you go to see a dentist?
• Is it important to take care of your teeth whether they are primary or permanent teeth?