Educational activity based on the short film Perfect Houseguest
Recognize behaviors that promote good health: daily cleanliness habits.
Perfect Houseguest © Tiny Inventions
TitlePerfect Houseguest
ThemeAnimals
Genre & keywordsWonderful, walk, mouse, storage.
Age (for the film)3-11 years
Duration01 min 34 s
DirectorM. Porter & R. Kuwahata
MusicBram Meindersma
ProductionTiny Inventions (United States, 2015)
Participate in an oral discussion on hygiene. Make an informational poster.
This video allows us to follow a little mouse who cleans and tidies the house. It can serve as a starting point for a science unit on hygiene and cleanliness.
Ask students to describe the activities of this little mouse. She tidies up, she sweeps and she cleans, we see her washing her hands several times and at the end of the video she washes her body.
Why should we wash our hands? And our bodies? To avoid diseases and the proliferation of microbes. Above all, do not guide the students, just note down their ideas and responses.
Then ask them to list the hygiene rules to follow to be in good health: brush their teeth after each meal, wash their hands regularly and after each use of the toilet, wash their bodies daily, get enough sleep... Always let them share their own ideas without guiding them; simply record their answers.
Make a poster writing down all the students' ideas and set it aside. Run a complete unit on body hygiene, food hygiene, sleep, etc. Then, at the end of the sequence, take out the poster, read it, and see the children's development and progress. Cross out what is incorrect, add missing information, and take stock: what have we learned? Then make a clean final version of the poster. This activity can be part of the students' citizenship curriculum.
Debate in moral and civic education: tidy or obsessive, are they the same thing? In the video the little mouse takes risks to straighten the picture, which is hanging crooked, she arranges the pencils in order of size. Is this important? Visual arts: draw the illustrations for the poster. Writing: write a short guide on health-promoting behaviors.
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