Rethink Your Drink: Water’s Cool at School Program
The Rethink Your Drink campaign, developed by the Delta Dental Foundation, aims to help children and adults make healthier beverage choices through educational materials and resources.
Water’s Cool at School
Providing access to drinking water throughout the school day gives students a healthy alternative to sugary beverages like soda pop and sports or juice drinks. Drinking plenty of water can help combat obesity, increase energy levels and may improve students’ cognitive functions. Further, if fluoridated, drinking water also plays an important role in preventing cavities.
Rethink Your Drink Curriculum – Second Grade
Rethink Your Drink for second grade is an oral health curriculum that teaches children about the oral health benefits of choosing healthy drinks over sugary, unhealthy drinks. The four-lesson curriculum is packed full of engaging information and fun activities to show children why their teeth are important for lifelong health and how to care for them by brushing, visiting the dentist, and of course, rethinking their drink choices!
The second-grade curriculum lessons include Healthy Teeth, Dental Decay, Water Versus Sugary Drinks and a Recap to wrap up the science experiment started in lesson one as well as reinforce the concepts taught throughout.
The curriculum includes a brief 20-minute pre-recorded teacher training designed to provide teachers an overview of how the curriculum is used in practice.
Download the full curriculum below:
Rethink Your Drink Curriculum – Seventh Grade
Rethink Your Drink for seventh grade is a curriculum that is designed to teach children about the importance of choosing healthier drinks. The eight-lesson curriculum is packed full of interactive activities that engage seventh graders in learning all about germs, cavities, proper dental health care, beverage advertising, and most of all, rethinking their drink!
The seventh grade curriculum lessons include Getting Started, Healthy Teeth, Dental Decay, Water Versus Sugary Drinks, Drinks in the Media, Trusting Your Sources, Rethink Your Drink, and Review and Closing, which includes a post-test, Jeopardy!-style game, and students presenting their art projects.
The curriculum includes a brief 20-minute pre-recorded teacher training designed to provide teachers an overview of how the curriculum is used in practice.
Download the full curriculum below:
Learn More
Limited quantities of hands-on curriculum kits are available by request. For more information, please email ddf@deltadentalmi.com.
Action
Advocating for oral health excellence and equity for those who need it most.
Education
Teaching the importance of good oral health across the lifespan.
Funding
Funding the people and programs that make better oral health a reality.
