Age Appropriate Hand Washing Curriculum
Curriculum for teaching handwashing to preschoolers, young children ages 3 - 6, Middle School and Junior High students and Grades 9 - adult.
Young Children
- Hand Washing: Prevent Disease and Outbreak Intervention for Young Children (PDF: 215KB/3 pages)
Handwashing curriculum for young children ages 3 - 6.
Middle School and Junior High Students
- Safe or Sorry Hand Washing (PDF: 227KB/7 pages)
Handwashing and consumer food safety curriculum for Middle School and Junior High students.- Excerpt from the full Safe or Sorry(SOS) curriculum.
High School and Adult
- Hand Washing: Prevent Disease and Outbreak Intervention for High School and Adult Audiences (247KB/ 10 pages)
Handwashing curriculum for Grades 9 - Adult.
“Hand Washing is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection”
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Hand Hygiene Print Materials
Signs, posters, brochures, manuals, curricula, and other hand hygiene materials that you can print and use.
Clean Your Hands! Poster
This 11x17 poster shows the six steps for washing hands with soap and water or two for cleaning with alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
Note:If soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer. Wash your hands with soap and water when your hands are visibly soiled.
Food handlers in restaurants, schools, delis and grocery stores must wash their hands with soap and water before applying hand sanitizers. [Minn Rules Chap. 4626.0070 - 4626.0085] See Hand Hygiene for Food Handlers for more information.
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