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Content Area: Health and Physical Education
Index: 2.3A Grade 2 CPI 1
Standard: 2.3 - Drugs & Medicine
Strand: A - Medicines
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will identify different kinds of medicines.
Grade: 2
Sample Activities:
· WHY DO I NEED SHOTS? - Ask the students: “How many of you really like to go to the doctor and get a shot? Do you know what shots are for and why they are so important?”. Put the responses on the chalkboard. Explain to the class that most people in our country are protected against many very serious diseases because they have had shots or immunizations (write the word on the board). Explain that most children are immunized as infants because babies are very susceptible to germs. Sometimes as children and adults grow older they need a booster shot. This shot boosts or pushes the body’s defense system to work better. Use a PACMan type video or computer game to illustrate how the body’s defense system literally eats germs in our systems. Explain that immunizations help the body by creating more good PACMen to fight off the bad germs that enter our bodies. Next, use a doll to show students the many ways germs can enter our bodies. Point out that the most common ways children become exposed is through the mouth and cuts on the skin. Divide the class into four groups and give each group a doll or stuffed animal. (Be sure the doll or stuffed animal has a name, or allow the group to select a name.) Each group writes or illustrates five ways that the doll or animal can protect himself/herself from germs. Groups develop a story about the doll or stuffed animal and how he/she is protected from germs and share their stories with classmates.
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