Nutrition Media Literacy: Fun PwrPt. Quiz-Recognize Product Packaging

This lesson is fun and kids love guessing the products. It's in my "Top 10 Favorite Lessons Series" (See below). Help your students to look beyond packaging to see food label truths.

THIS LESSON IS INCLUDED IN THE BEST HEALTH CURRICULUM: A COMPLETE SEMESTER OF HEALTH LESSON PLANS AND IS ALSO PART OF THE "NUTRITION UNIT." (See links below)

Use this fun PowerPoint Quiz to show your students that without even realizing it, they are probably being influence by food manufacturers and their creative, and often misleading packaging. The lesson message is simple: look beyond the package recognition, appearance, ploys, claims, and deceptions, and read the information on the food label to get the real picture. Teach your students to be educated consumers!

Full lesson directions are included.

The lesson starts with a fun, engaging 43-slide PowerPoint called Guess the Product. It has pictures of 20 real products that many students will recognize. Students enjoy the challenge and mine were into trying to get a perfect 20 out of 20 score (I listed their names on the board if they did it!) This lesson helps students see that although many people feel that packaging does not influence them, they will see otherwise when they see how many recognized these products. They'll see that manufacturers are getting what they want-they know teenagers are just developing their habits and eating patterns for life and product recognition will create repeat consumers. Secondly, it is critical that your students know how to get beyond the packaging and know how to read a food label so they aren't swayed or deceived into buying and eating something that is unhealthy.

After the Guess the Product game, the lesson covers how to read a food label. A 16-slide PowerPoint will walk students through recognizing unrealistic serving sizes, deceptive numbers hidden behind asterisks on food labels, why servings per container always needs to be checked, and other misleading container information. (this lesson the same as the FREE lesson I have on TPT if you have already downloaded it. If not, I included it in this lesson since I teach them on the same day)

This lesson includes everything students should know about reading food labels and gives the formulas to figure out if a food is healthy - less than 35% fat and sugar. The lesson ends with students picking their own product and working through a worksheet.

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Here are links to my Complete 90-Day Semester Health Curriculum, my Year-Long P.E. Curriculum and my complete Health class units:

The Best Health Curriculum: A Complete Semester of Health Lesson Plans

The Best P.E. Curriculum: A Complete Year-Long 6th – 12th Grade P.E. Program

Independent Study/Homeschool Health Curriculum

3-Week Nutrition Unit

Drug Unit for Health Class (complete 3-week unit)

Alcohol Unit: 9 Days of Lessons

Tobacco Unit: 5 Days of Lessons

Sex Ed. Health Unit-3-Week Detailed Lesson Plans, 142-Slide PowerPoint and Packet

STOP BULLYING: A 4-Week Empathy and Violence Unit

Stress Unit

Improving Self-Esteem Unit

Ending a School Year: Creative Ways to Wrap Up and Send Students Off

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TOP 10 “FAVORITE LESSONS” SERIES: {Click on the description below}

In my 17 years of teaching Health and designing hundreds of lessons, these are my top 10 favorite lessons. First, I love teaching them because they present powerful, and valuable lessons for teens; and second, they’re favorites because they’re engaging and students have fun while they learn.

1. Food Label Scavenger Hunt. This lesson is my #1 seller. After students have read 42 food labels, they totally understand how to decipher the information on any food label!

2. Life Stories Project. The 3-Day project will have your students learning to embrace the hardships that make up their life stories, and sharing personal experiences they might not have otherwise talked about.

3. Alcohol Refusal Skills. This lessons starts with an interactive PowerPoint quiz on “Peer Pressure Lines,” continues with a true story about a dad who allowed his son to have an alcohol party in their basement, and ends with small group role-plays. Very powerful!

4. Fat and Sugar Nutrition Lab: Turn your classroom into a science lab to show your students the fat and sugar in 15 different products. Products sheets are included.

5. Dangerous Decisions Activity. Help Teens Realize the Consequences of 14 different risky behaviors they may be tempted by.

6. “Intervention” Addiction Lesson. Using “Intervention” T.V. Show to teach your students about addiction and treatment. Very powerful. This lesson teaches itself!

7. Nutrition Media Literacy. Have fun showing your students how food manufacturers manipulate us to buy their products. Kids will be surprised by what they learn.

8. Narcotics Dangers “Pharm Parties“ Lesson. Simulate a “Pharmaceutical Party” and help your student understand the dangers of narcotics, including prescription pills.

9. Fast Food Lesson. Help students analyze healthy versus unhealthy fast food restaurant choices.

10. Sexual Pressures Flip Charts. Help your students come up with assertive answers to sexual pressure lines.