The student will benefit from this activity because it will help them understand the importance of good personal health habits in preventing illness. Students will be able to identify symptoms of common illnesses and diseases. Students will be able to identify common ways to prevent the spread of germs. Germs are very small organisms that we cannot see with the naked eye. In order to see them we need a very powerful microscope.
Germs are everywhere.
They can cause sickness in people at any age, from birth to when we are 100 years old. There are two types of germs that usually cause us to get sick, bacteria and viruses. Bacteria - tiny germs that are a made up of only one cell. We are made up of millions of cells. Hand washing is important because it reduces the spread of germs from one person to the next.