CORE Strenghten Your Life Skills: For Teenagers and Young Adults – English

Unit 2 – Clean is beautiful: Step 2

Task 1

Germ alert!

Let's do an experiment. Organize yourself as a group, find a ball and some glitter, chalk dust, colored powder, clay, red mud or flour.

  • First dampen the ball and spread the glitter or alternative material all over it.
    • Stand in a circle.
    • Throw the ball around and ensure that everybody has a chance to catch it.
    • After everyone has touched the ball look at your hands. What do they look like?
  • What does the glitter or other material on your hands represent?
  • Wash your hands after the activity.

Task 2

Handwashing high-five!

Handwashing with soap is a simple, yet highly effective way to ward off infectious germs. Here are five very simple steps to keep your hands clean and germ-free.

  • Wet hands thoroughly.
  • Use soap.
  • Scrub backs of hands, wrists, between fingers, under fingernails (15 seconds)
  • Rinse hands clean.
  • DRY on a clean cloth.

It is very important to wash your hands with soap after using the toilet and before eating food.

Other times you should wash your hands include: before preparing food, after touching animals, after sneezing/coughing, after outdoor work, after picking up rubbish, before feeding children.

Task 3

Reasons for washing your hands

Write on the piece of paper all the reasons for washing your hands. Here you find an example:

  • I wash my hands to prevent germs from spreading and entering my body.