Chapter 1 Body Hygiene
Take care of your body. It's the only
place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
1.1 Let's check how aware we are about our body
hygiene: _________
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Sr.
No. |
Body
hygiene |
Always |
Sometimes |
Never |
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1. |
I
carry a handkerchief with me. |
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2. |
I
wash my hands before and after a meal with soap. |
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3. |
I
wear clean and dry clothes. |
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4. |
I
cover my mouth while sneezing and coughing. |
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5. |
I
cut my nails weekly. |
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6. |
I
brush my teeth twice a day. |
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7. |
I
avoid eating unhygienic or uncovered food items being sold on the roadsides. |
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8. |
I
take a bath every day. |
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9. |
I
keep my hair clean. |
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Total
score |
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Scoring: - Always 3, Sometimes- 2, Never-1
My score in body hygiene is_________.
To increase my score in body hygiene, I will do the following tasks daily.
1.2 Let's know more..!
Dear students, Good health can be
obtained by keeping our body hygienic. It is a way to protect ourselves and
other members of society from illness and many other diseases. For this, we need
to inculcate the following habits:
1. Taking a bath daily:
We must take a bath daily with soap and water.
2. Keeping your hair clean:
Short hair should be washed every day, while the long hair must
be cleaned at least once a week with shampoo and should be dried properly.
3. Brushing and
cleaning teeth: We must brush and clean our teeth
twice a day. It will keep our teeth and gums clean and strong.
4. Washing hands with
soap: Hands must be washed properly with soap and water especially
after going to the toilet, before and after taking a meal, after playing,
gardening or any other activity which makes our hands dirty. When we eat with
dirty hands, many germs and disease-causing viruses directly enter our stomach
and we fall ill.
5. Wearing clean
clothes: We must wear clothes that are washed
properly with soap and dried thoroughly in the sun.
6. Separate towel and
comb: Every person in a family should use a separate towel
and comb.
7. Covering mouth and
nose: We should cover our mouth and nose with a handkerchief
while coughing and sneezing. It will prevent the liquid droplets containing
germs from entering the body of others. It can make them sick.
8. We must keep clean our nails and
cut them weekly.
9. An outfit must be exposed to
sunlight if we want to wear it again.
10. We must avoid eating uncovered
food sold on roadsides. Such food is very harmful to our health.
11. We must stay away from drugs to
keep our body healthy as abuse of drugs ruins our body.
ACTIVITY
Perform this activity
with the help of your teacher.
Material required: One potato and one potato peeler.
The teacher will peel one potato in
front of the students and give the potato to one student.
The student will pass the potato to
another student. In this way, the potato should pass from the hands of all
students. In the end, the potato should be returned to the teacher.
How is the potato
looking now? _________________________
Can we cook it without
washing? Why? ___________________________
Dear students, the fruits and
vegetables that we bring from the market are passed from numerous hands and
have plenty of germs stuck to them. These germs can cause many life- threatening
infections on entering our stomach. So the fruits and vegetables should be properly
before eating.
1.3 Let's make our daily schedule, to keep
ourselves healthy:
After getting up in the morning, we
shall perform the following tasks to keep our body clean and healthy for the
whole day. (Help can be taken from the following word box.)
Brushing, Going to a toilet, Washing
hands with soap, Bathing, Wearing clean and dried clothes, Removing the food
stuck between teeth with the help of a thread, Getting food in clean utensils,
Rinsing mouth properly, Changing uniform, Combing hair, Drying hands with a
clean cloth, Washing face.
What
will I do to keep my body hygienic? Why I will do it?
Morning (After getting
up)
i) ______________
i) _____________
ii) ___________
ii) _______________
iii) ____________
iii) ___________
iv) _____________
iv) _______
v) _____________
v) ________
vi) ____________
vi) ___________
What
will do to keep my body hygienic? Why I will do it?
Breakfast, lunch and
dinner time:
i) ________
i) _____________
ii) ___________
ii) ___________
iii) ____________
iii) ____________
iv) ___________
iv) ____________
v) __________
v) ____________
V
After returning from
school:
i) ________
i) _______
ii) _______ ii)
______________
iii) ________
iii) _________
After returning from
play:
i) ______________ i) ______
ii) _________ ii)
___________
iii) ____________ iii)
___________
Before going to bed:
i) __________ i)
__________
Discuss
the above schedule with the teacher and other students in the class. If you feel
that you have missed any good habit, write it in the box given below:-
HOME WORK
Collect pictures of
healthy habits related to body hygiene.
1.4 Think and Write
1. After reading this chapter,
what changes you brought in yourself?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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2. Let's write down the
advantages of keeping our body clean:
i)__________________________________________________________________
ii)
________________________________________________________________
ii)
________________________________________________________________
iv)
________________________________________________________
v)
_________________________________________________________
3. Paste the pictures
depicting the good habits you inculcated to keep your body clean in the space
provided.
Special
suggestions from the teacher to the student
