Lesson Summary

In this activity kids will complete a simple science experiment that demonstrates how washing your hands is so effective at stopping the spread of germs.
This experiment follows a basic science experiment procedure where kids make a prediction about what might happen, conduct an experiment and record observations, and finally analyse results and draw conclusions.

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Curriculum codes:

Foundation: ACSHE013, ACSIS014, ACSIS011, ACSIS233, ACSIS012
Year 1: ACSIS024, ACSIS025, ACSIS027, ACSIS029
Year 2: ACSIS037, ACSIS038, ACSIS040, ACSIS042
Year 3: ACSIS053, ACSIS054, ACSIS060

Age: Lower Primary Ages 5 – 9
Themes:

investigate
in the kitchen

TIme required: 15-20 minutes
Curriculum connections: Science, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding
Tips for Parents and Carers
If you’re working with kids to complete this activity it can be useful to use additional prompts around what you’re doing to deepen the experience for kids. Prompts you could use include:

Why do you think that? Tell me more about that.
What do you think will happen here? Tell me more about that.
What does this make you think about?
What questions do you have about this?
What information was new to you?
What did you find interesting or important about this?

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Fight Germs With Soap (home learning)

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