Health Lesson: Consumer Awareness Lesson - Healthy or Junk Food?

Total Pages: 25 pages
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: 90 minutes
File Size: 1 MB
File Type: PDF

Health Lesson & Consumer Awareness Food Label Claims | PDF & Digital Formats: Help your students develop a deeper understanding of consumer awareness and their health with this engaging lesson on misleading food labels. This lesson examines several popular brands and explains what was found when they examined the food label carefully (salt and sugar content).

• This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™. The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.

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Curriculum Links

This set of lessons can be used for consumer awareness lessons (discussing how companies advertise their product as a healthier option, but in reality, the food label tells a different story) or as part of your Health program. This lesson discusses the contents of popular brand-name processed food.

Lesson Outline

•  Introduction to Consumer Awareness
•  Healthy or Junk Food Questions
•  Journal Entry Assessment (4 Options)
•  Healthy of Junk Food Quiz
•  Extend Your Learning Assignment

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Resource Notes

• Regular reliable internet access is required for this resource
• Internet must be able to access online video sources
• This resource is a non-editable PDF, with Google Classroom compatible PDFs included

Unit Includes

• differentiated and engaging activities
• individual PDFs of student pages for uploading to Google Classroom or other online learning portals
• Google Slides graphic organizers for 1 to 1 technology classrooms
• detailed lesson plan for teachers
• lessons divided up with title pages for easy access