Life skills and special education
Personal Hygiene for Teens
Visual Routines & Checklists · Life Skills
- Grades
- Grades 6–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 31
- Answer keys
- Included
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Teach personal hygiene in a way teens actually respect. This life skills unit uses clear visual routines, real reasons and grown-up practice (never babyish) to build daily habits: hand washing the CDC way, brushing teeth for two minutes, showering, deodorant, hair and nail care, and clean clothes. Core pages are leveled for special education and life skills classrooms, with body-neutral language that works for every student.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 8-session pacing, materials and differentiation (Level 1, 2 and 3)
- Teaching With Respect notes: privacy, cultural differences, sensory needs, supply access and a step-by-step routine teaching sequence
- Why Hygiene Matters + 10 key words with picture supports
- Morning and evening visual routine checklists (laminate for a mirror)
- Hand washing: the CDC's 5 steps, a 20-second count strip and when to wash
- Brushing teeth: 6 steps and a 2-minute plan
- Showering steps (9 picture steps)
- Body care basics: deodorant vs. antiperspirant, hair, clean clothes, face and nails
- Hygiene Check at three levels: picture choices, multiple choice, and written explanations + hygiene kit plan
- Put It in Order: cut-and-glue sequencing for hand washing and tooth brushing
- 4 social narratives set at school and work, each with Level 1, 2 and 3 questions
- How Often? sort: mat + 16 picture cards (every day, about once a week, when needed)
- 12 problem-solving cards + response sheet
- My Weekly Hygiene Tracker for self-monitoring
- Hygiene Check quiz (10 questions)
- A note for families with a return slip
- IEP task analysis data sheet for hand washing and tooth brushing
- Complete answer keys
How to use it
Use it in life skills, special education, health, advisory or transition classes. Teach one routine per session with the visual checklists, practice at a sink when you can, and assign each student the check page at their level. The narratives, sort and problem cards work well in small groups, and the tracker and data sheet make progress easy to see.
Skills practiced
Hand washingoral careshoweringdeodoranthair and nail careclean clothessequencingself-monitoringproblem solving
