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Early Years: Respiratory Hygiene

This lesson supports children to learn how easily harmful germs can spread through sneezing.

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Learning objectives

Understand how proper hygiene practices, such as sneezing into a tissue or sleeve and washing hands after nose blowing, help to reduce the spread of harmful germs and keep us healthy.

Background Information

Respiratory infections are infections that happen in the lungs, chest, sinuses, nose and throat, for example, coughs and colds, the flu and pneumonia. These infections can spread from person-to-person through the air, through person-to-person contact (touching hands, hugging, kissing) or by touching contaminated surfaces.

Teaching good respiratory hygiene from a young age, such as covering your coughs and sneezes or regularly washing your hands for 20 seconds, can help prevent the spread of these infections.

This lesson plan supports you to educate students on what good respiratory hygiene looks like and how to practice it.

Activities

Main activity:
  • Paint Sneezes
Extension activities:
  • Hand Washing and Nose Blowing Flashcards
  • Nose Blowing Writing Activity

Curriculum links

Curriculum Key Elements

  • Personal Health and Moral Character

Curriculum Skills

  • Communication
  • Thinking
  • Problem Solving and Decision Making

Physical development

  • Language and Literacy
  • Personal Development and Mutual Understanding (PDMU)
  • The World Around Us (TWAU)

Supporting Materials

Teacher sheets
Hand Washing and Nose Blowing Flashcards
Student worksheets
SW1 Picture Sequencing