Healthy drinks and tasty toothpaste
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By looking at a real life context of a toothpaste manufacturer wanting to develop an appealing toothpaste that provides maximum protection against the effect of sugar in drinks, the children investigate how acid causes tooth decay, the ingredients for toothpaste and the effectiveness of a variety of toothpastes.
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| Resource | Media type | Resource size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tooth-friendly drinks challenge: Introduction |  (PowerPoint) |
3.88 MB | Presentation that introduces some of the jobs in industry that are used in the challenge. Asks the children to investigate the effects of different drinks on teeth |
| Tooth-friendly drinks challenge: Notes |  (pdf) |
91 kB | Teachers' notes on using Tooth-friendly drinks challenge |
| Toothpaste design challenge: Introduction | (PowerPoint) |
269 kB | Sets the scene for the investigation to design the best toothpaste |
| Toothpaste design challenge: Notes | (pdf) |
81 KB | Teachers' notes on Toothpaste design challenge |
| (PowerPoint) |
89 kB | Drag-and-drop planning board similar to on-line planning board animation | |
| Planning board: Notes | (pdf) |
93 kB | Teachers' Notes on using the planning board |
Notes
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