This document discusses personal hygiene and its importance. It defines personal hygiene as cleaning of the body from head to toe. Maintaining good personal hygiene is important to keep the body clean, prevent illness, improve self-esteem, and lower healthcare costs. Tips for good hygiene include brushing teeth twice daily, regular hand washing, wearing clean clothes, bathing daily, and using deodorant. The document encourages developing healthy self-management skills and commitment to maintain good personal hygiene habits.

1. FOUR PICS ONE WORDS

2. PERSONAL HYGIENE
Keep it Clean, Personal Hygiene

3. OBJECTIVES
 Define the terms hygiene and personal
hygiene
 Explain the importance of good personal
hygiene and tips to good personal hygiene
 Demonstrate healthy self management skill
and commitment in maintaining personal
hygiene

4. VALUE: COMMITMENT
 Commitment is feeling bound to doing
something.

5. DEFINITIONS

Personal hygiene is.

6. DEFINITIONS CONT’D
 Hygiene is the conditions or practices
necessary for health.
 Personal hygiene is the cleanliness of your
body which includes cleaning of body parts
from head to toe.

7. IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL HYGIENE
 Keep your body clean
 Prevent or minimize illness
 Have better self esteem
 Lower health care cost
 Prevent odors

8. TIPS TO MAINTAIN PERSONAL HYGIENE
 Brush your teeth twice daily
 Wash your hands before eating, before
touching your eyes, nose or mouth, after
using the bathroom and after touching
something a lot of people have touched.
 Wear clean clothes
 Do not wear tight underwear
 Do not use others’ soaps, clothes, combs,
tooth brush or deodorant

9. TIPS TO MAINTAIN PERSONAL HYGIENE
 Take a bath daily
 Drink lots of water
 Wash hair once per week (girls) everyday
(boys)
 Clip nails
 Eat healthy foods
 Wear deodorant

10. ACTIVITY
 Create a poster giving tips for maintaining
personal hygiene

11. LIFE SKILL: HEALTHY SELF MANAGEMENT SKILL
 Identify whether the behavior promotes or
compromises health.
 Evaluate the consequences of the particular
behavior on one’s overall health
 Examine the factors contributing to this behavior
 Identify the desired health outcome
 Select a solution or choice that achieves that
health outcome
 Review the impact of that lifestyle choice on
overall health and wellness.

12. ACTIVITY – GRADED
 In your villages create a 2 minutes ad or jingle
promoting good personal hygiene ensuring to use
their life skill and value.
 Life skill 6 marks
 Value 2 marks
 Creativity 4 marks
 Reflective Question: How can healthy self
management skill and commitment assist in
maintaining good personal hygiene?

13. PERSONAL HYGIENE CHART