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By Tia

i teach 6th too! reading lables isn't in our curriculum, but i think it is so important for kids to know how and to see what is actually in food, i do it anyway!

i initially teach and have the students read information
on the nutrients: vit, mins... and we look at how to read a label, what the %s mean and how ingredients are organized.
then i bring in many different foods--i try to group them: gatorade, fruit drink, real fruit juice
1% white milk, 2% white, chocolate, and skim (i collect the little cartons from their lunch
"fatty" chips, baked chips, grain crackers, "white" crackers, graham crackers
root

beer, orange pop, pepsi

ready to heat and eat foods: chili, mac and cheese, peanut butter, cup of soup, cambell's chicken noodle, reduced sodium cambell's chicken noodle

the students are always astonished to see there is sodium in choc milk and that there is the same amount of calcium in all milks--just less fat

they're surprised to see that root beer has more calories than pepsi

i make sure they notice how high in sodium and fat the prepared foods are.

they really enjoy this activity.

i also borrow an excellent video from our teacher resource center--Nutrition in a Box--discusses the meaning of low-fat, questions the amount of a serving...

good luck.