This is an excellent lesson to incorporate within your Carbohydrates Unit to demonstrate how sugar impacts the brain and body!

What's Included?

1. Limit Your Sugar Intake Slideshow (18 Slides)

• Sugar in America
• Your Brain on Sugar
• Recommended Sugar Limits
• Glycemic Index
• Added Sugar on the Food Label & Ingredients List
• Artificial Sweeteners
• Tips to Decrease Sugar Intake

2. Limit Your Sugar Intake Notes (1 page)

• Guided notes to help students critically think about key points!

3. The 3-Day Sugar Tracker (2 Pages)

For three days students will log the amount of added sugars that they consume on a daily basis!

• 3-day tracker
• Reflection questions

4. Sugar Display Board

Students will bring in a food wrapper for a food product that contains hidden sugars. Then they will use the rubric to analyze the sugar content within their food product and create a Sugar Shocker Poster Board to demonstrate the amount of sugar that their product contains. (As the teacher, you will need to provide ziplock baggies, sugar and a teaspoon.)

• Rubric
• Food Wrapper Sign-up sheet

I like to introduce this lesson after my Carbohydrate Basics lesson and my Complex Carbohydrates: Whole Grains Worksheet!

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