Nutrition Lesson and Experiment About Sugar

Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your students about sugar? This resource includes a hands-on experiment, an engaging reading passage with a mix of comprehension questions, an interactive food picture sort…and so much more! Your students will learn how to find the amount of sugar in foods, identify examples of high and low sugar foods, and learn more about how sugar impacts our bodies.

Activity 1: Reading passage and comprehension questions- Students read the four-page reading passage titled, All About Sugar. The reading passage includes real photographs and informational text features, such as captions. Using evidence from the text, students answer a mix of true/false, multiple-choice, and short response questions. An answer key is included.

Activity 2: True and False Interactive Sugar Sort- There are 16 cards that have a sentence about sugar. One at a time, a student reads the card and the class determines if the statement is true or false by holding up “true” or “false.” Students have a discussion about the statement and place it under the card “true” or “false.” After this part of the lesson is complete, students will independently read, cut, and sort the sentences into “true” and “false” statements. Resources include directions, 16 statements about sugar, one blank template to write your own, an answer key, and a “sugar shock” color poster to print.

Activity 3: Sugar Sleuths- As a follow-up to the whole group’s true and false interactive sort, students turn into sugar sleuths and independently (or with a partner) read, cut out, and sort all sentences into their own book. There are 16 sentences for the student to sort under “true” or “false.”

Activity 4: High Sugar/Low Sugar Food Sort- There are 36 photographs of real food that students identify as “high sugar” or “low sugar.” Students sort the foods into the correct category. This can be done as a whole group or as a center. Resources include a color informational poster about high sugar foods, 36 real photographs in color of common foods, and “high sugar/low sugar” cards to print.

Activity 5: Sugar Experiment- Students use sugar cubes to measure out the amount of sugar in their favorite snack. Students compare the amount of sugar in their food to the other snacks students tested.

If you have questions, please ask me prior to purchasing.