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Competencies
C-3.1

• Critical Thinking
• Remembering
• Collaboration
• Understanding
21st CENTURY SKILLS • Health and Well-being
7 Teeth and Digestion
• Digital Integration

Warm Up • Critical Thinking

How do you eat your food?

You take in your food through the

mouth. The teeth in the mouth
help to cut the food into small
pieces. Rahul regularly gets his

teeth checked up by the dentist.

Have you ever been to a dentist,

the teeth specialist? Why is it
important to visit a dentist?

TEETH

We all have teeth in our mouth. Teeth give proper shape to our face and help
us speak clearly. We bite and chew food with the help of our teeth. This makes

the digestion of food easy.

Have you ever seen elderly people who have lost their teeth?
Teeth are an important part of our body. Clean and well-kept teeth make us

smart, beautiful and healthy.

Milk teeth and permanent teeth

Newborn babies do not have teeth in the mouth. They get their first tooth around

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