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Lives about 30
days. Females can lay up to 100 nits.
They can't fly, jump or hop, but they
can crawl.
Ask a school nurse, teacher, parent
or adult friend to look for lice and
nits in your hair. If they don't see
any the first time and your head
continues to itch, have your hair
looked at again.
Lice do not jump, hop or fly. But they do get around!
Here's how the kids in Room 12 got lice.
If you do have lice, your school
nurse or family doctor can help find
the best way to get rid of them.
Don't share hats, helmets, combs,
pillows or anything that has
touched your head.
Don't panic. You can get rid of lice.
Standards Link: Health: Students understand responsibility
of their role in the prevention and treatment of personal
health problems.
A tiny gray-white egg that the
adult louse "glues" to a strand of hair
close to the scalp.
A baby louse freshly
hatched from the nit. It feeds on a
person's blood.
Standards Link: Life Science: Students know there are
sequential stages of life-cycles for different animals.
Zack's head itched, but he didn't
know he had lice. He grabbed his
new hat and ran out the door to
catch the school bus ...
But Zack didn't know some lice
had crawled onto his hat for a
look around.
The lice on the hat crawled onto Eric's head and
Ashley's, too. Soon all of his friends wanted to
try on Zack's hat.
A few days later ...
Brian wore
Zack's hat at
recess one day.
Ashley shared
her brush with
Amy and Abby.
Eric and Andrew, head to head,
waited for a lizard to crawl out
from under a rock.
After just a few days, how many kids
in Room 12 could have lice? What
could the children have done to
protect themselves from getting lice?
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