Assess your pupils' ability to identify healthy food choices in the final lesson of this series on food science. Given five different food labels, young nutritionists will rank them from most to least healthy, supporting their choices with a short explanatory paragraph. The assessment also asks for the identification of food groups, which is challenging since the food labels do not list ingredients, only nutrition facts. Consider cutting out and copying food labels with ingredient lists to help learners reach the learning objectives of the assessment.

Concepts

food labels, food

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Additional Tags

nutrition facts, healthy and unhealthy food, food label, science

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Pros

• Clearly assesses the ability to read food labels and distinguish healthy foods from unhealthy foods
• Assessment requires students to support their choices with a written explanation
• Worksheets are provided in both English and Spanish

Cons

• Assessment needs to be adapted to support the identification of food groups

Common Core

W.1.1 W.2.1 W.3.1.a W.3.1.b W.3.1.c W.4.1.a W.4.1.b W.4.1.c W.5.1.a W.5.1.b W.5.1.c