Students analyze labels. Have students collect a variety of food labels for the next session. Students arrange the food labels they collected on a piece of poster board or construction paper. Have students arrange the labels in order from most healthful to least healthful based on the nutrition information. Reflect, summarize, discuss.
Students present their posters to the class.
Discuss student findings. Students write summaries explaining why they ordered the labels as they did. The summary should explain why Nutrition Labels provide valid sources of information about the nutritional value of labeled foods. Permission is granted to reproduce for educational non-commercial uses if this message is shown. All rights reserved.