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Hand Washing CurriculumTrain the Trainer Model
Kimberly Pelletier, Epidemiologist
State of Connecticut
Department of Public Health
Background:o While I was working
for the Naugatuck Valley Health District this was a project I worked on.
o The project was funded through NVHD’s pandemic flu funding.
o The project was piloted at TEAM Inc.’s Head Start Programs.
o I presented this curriculum to several hundred elementary school aged students at over 20 elementary schools, both public and parochial, in Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Seymour and Shelton.
Overview:o The objective of this curriculum is to educatechildren, and teachers as well, about the importanceof effective and frequent hand washing.o Students will learn how to fight the flu by being a COOL cougher, a SAFE sneezer and a HIP handwasher.
Objectives:
Activity A: Discussion on Germs
Activity B: Discussion on Colds and Flu
Activity C: Germs are Everywhere
Activity D: Discuss Barriers to Hand Washing
Activity E: Demonstrate Proper Hand Washing
Activity F: How Coughs and Sneezes Spread Germs
Activity G: Practice Covering a Cough or Sneeze
Activity H: Demonstrate Use of Hand Sanitizer
Activity I: Demonstrate Use of Hand Wipes
Activity A: Discussion on germs
1. Describe what germs are
2. Identify how germs can be spread
from one person to another
3. Discuss simple ways to minimize
the spread of germs
Activity B: Discussion on Colds and Flu
1. Describe some of the symptoms
they may have experienced when
they were ill
2. Identify that germs cause people to
get sick with a cold or flu
Activity C: Germs are Everywhere
1. Describe how germs can be spread from their hands to manysurfaces
Activity D: Discuss Barriers to Hand Washing
1. Identify solutions to hand washing
if they don’t have access to a sink
Activity E: Demonstrate Proper Hand Washing
1. Demonstrate the correct way to
wash their hands and how to be a HIP
handwasher
2. Talk their way through the process,
if they do not have access to a sink
Activity F: How Coughs and Sneezes Spread Germs
1. Identify how germs get on their
hands
2. Describe how germs spread from
their hands to other surfaces
Activity G: Practice Covering a Cough or Sneeze
1. Demonstrate how they can be a
SAFE sneezer and a COOL cougher
2. Discuss what happens to the germs
if they cough and sneeze into
their hands
Activity H: Demonstrate Use of Hand Sanitizer
1. Describe how they can sanitizetheir hands without hand washing2. Understand that sanitizers are not a replacement for hand washing
Activity I: Demonstrate Use of Hand Wipes
1. Describe how they can sanitize
their hands without hand washing
2. Understand that hand wipes are
not a replacement for hand washing