Added Sugar Media Literacy Lesson, Grade 6 Health Lesson

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Pages: 23 Pages + Google Slides
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

Looking for a ready-to-use, engaging Media Literacy lesson that helps students think critically about the foods they eat? This Added Sugar Consumer Awareness Lesson helps students become thoughtful, informed consumers by investigating how added sugar is used in everyday foods and how food companies market their products. Through authentic consumer awareness activities, students analyze nutrition labels, evaluate advertising messages, and think critically about the information they encounter every day.

Perfect for Grades 6–8, this no-prep lesson is available in both PDF and Google Slides™ formats, making it ideal for whole-class instruction, independent learning, or substitute plans. Students won't just learn about nutrition; they'll investigate real food products, real advertising, and real consumer decisions they encounter every day. This lesson works equally well as a Media Literacy, Language Arts, or Health lesson.

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Save Money - Buy The Bundle: This resource is included in this comprehensive 11-resource Grade 6 Media Literacy Bundle, which helps students become thoughtful, informed consumers by exploring real-world topics.

Perfect For:

• Grade 6–8 classrooms
• Media Literacy lessons
• Consumer Awareness lessons
• Health Education units
• Middle school nutrition lessons
• Cross-curricular Language & Health instruction
• Sub plans
• First-week Health lessons

What's Included:

• 1 complete Media Literacy lesson
• Detailed lesson plan
• Student graphic organizers
• Reflective journal prompt
• Meaningful extension assignment
• Answer keys
• Detailed assessment rubric
• PDF & Google Slides™ formats

Every Lesson Includes:

1. Introduction to Consumer Awareness
2. Video Comprehension Questions + Answer Key
3. Journal Entry Assessment
4. Quiz + Answer Key
5. Extend Your Learning Assignment

Students Will Develop Skills To:

• Analyze advertising messages
• Evaluate nutrition and marketing claims
• Read and interpret food labels
• Make informed consumer decisions
• Think critically about food marketing
• Become responsible consumers

Engaging Real-World Topics Include:

• Added sugar in everyday foods
• Nutrition label analysis
• Food marketing strategies
• Consumer awareness
• Healthy decision making

Every lesson follows the same predictable structure, so students know what to expect while teachers enjoy an easy-to-teach routine. This lesson is built around a high-interest, real-world topic that encourages meaningful classroom discussion while developing essential media literacy and consumer awareness skills.

Skills & Standards Covered:

• Critical thinking and analysis
• Media literacy
• Consumer awareness
• Nutrition label analysis
• Evaluating advertising claims
• Recognizing persuasive marketing techniques
• Health and wellness awareness

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

• Covers Ontario Language Curriculum expectations
• Easily integrates into Health and Media Literacy units
• Engages students with real-world, relatable topics
• Encourages critical thinking and thoughtful discussion
• Includes assessments, rubrics, and answer keys for easy grading
• Comes with PDF and Google Slides™ formats
• Saves planning time with a complete, ready-to-teach lesson

Resource Notes:

• Regular, reliable internet access is required for this resource.
• Internet access must allow students to view online videos.

Help your students become thoughtful, informed consumers by exploring how added sugar influences the foods they eat every day. This ready-to-use lesson saves planning time while building the critical-thinking, media literacy, and consumer awareness skills students will use both inside and outside the classroom.