LESSON PLAN 3.1.13 (60 min.)
SWBAT read the ingredients list of a food label to identify real food.
SWBAT use the terms “real food” and “fake products.”
Play “stand-up/sit-down” for the following foods:
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Milk
Strawberries
Sugar
Pectin
Citric acid
Xanthan gum
Potassium sorbate
Calcium chloride
A McDonald’s strawberry milkshake
Teacher says: Actually, if you have ever had a McDonald’s strawberry milkshake, you have eaten
everything that I just said! Repeat some of ingredients the kids didn’t know for additional effect.
Today we’re going to start learning about the difference between “real food” and “fake food.”
Introduction to New Material:
Complete graphic organizer comparing real food and fake foods:
REAL FOODS use kitchen graphic organizer.
 Foods that you eat basically how they are grown.
 Foods that don’t have anything added to them.
 Foods that you can recognize and cook yourself in your kitchen.
FAKE FOODS use factory graphic organizer.
 Foods that are changed a lot with chemicals from how they are grown.
 Foods that have a lot of things added to them.
 Foods that you cannot cook yourself in a kitchen.
Guided practice:
Students look at a Nutrition Label. Circle the serving size, then circle the ingredients list.
With your partner, read the ingredients lists for three snacks, and underline all the ingredients that you
recognize.
FLAMING CHEETOS
Enriched corn meal (corn meal, ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid),
vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn, soybean, or sunflower oil), salt, maltodextrin,
sugar, monosodium glutamate, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, artificial color (including red 40 lake,
yellow 6 lake, yellow 6, yellow 5), corn syrup solids, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil,
hydrolyzed soy protein, cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), whey, onion powder, whey
protein concentrate, corn syrup solids, natural flavor, buttermilk solids, garlic powder, disodium
phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium caseinate, lactic acid, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate,
nonfat milk solids, sodium citrate, and carrageenan.
TRISCUITS:
Whole wheat, soybean and/or palm oil, salt.
Read the ingredients list for an apple and underline all the ingredients that you recognize:
APPLE:
For Flaming Hot Cheetos, how many ingredients have you never heard of? _______________
For Flaming Hot Cheetos, how many ingredients have you heard of? ________________
For Triscuits, how many ingredients have you never heard of? _______________
For Triscuits, how many ingredients have you heard of? ________________
Independent practice:
Is a banana a real food or a fake food? Why? ____________________________________________
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Do you think that an Oreo is a real food or a fake food? Why? _______________________________
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Food and ecology!
Work ______________ and be ______________.
REAL FOOD
FAKE FOOD
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REAL FOODS:
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FAKE FOODS:
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With your partner, read the ingredients lists for three snacks, and underline all the
ingredients that you recognize.
FLAMING HOT CHEETOS
Enriched corn meal (corn meal,
 For Flaming Hot Cheetos, how many
ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamin
mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic
ingredients have you never heard of?
acid), vegetable oil (contains one
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or more of the following: corn,
soybean, or sunflower oil), salt,
 For Flaming Hot Cheetos, how many
maltodextrin, sugar, monosodium
glutamate, autolyzed yeast
ingredients have you heard of?
extract, citric acid, artificial color
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(including red 40 lake, yellow 6
lake, yellow 6, yellow 5), corn
 For Triscuits, how many ingredients have
syrup solids, partially
you never heard of? _______________
hydrogenated soybean and
cottonseed oil, hydrolyzed soy
 For Triscuits, how many ingredients have
protein, cheddar cheese (cultured
you heard of? ________________
milk, salt, enzymes), whey, onion
powder, whey protein concentrate,
corn syrup solids, natural flavor,
Is a banana a real food or a fake food? Why?
buttermilk solids, garlic powder,
_______________________________________ disodium phosphate, sodium
diacetate, sodium caseinate, lactic
_______________________________________ acid, disodium inosinate, disodium
_______________________________________ guanylate, nonfat milk solids,
sodium citrate, and carrageenan.
Do you think that an Oreo is a real food or a fake
food? Why?
TRISCUITS:
Whole wheat, soybean and/or
palm oil, salt.
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APPLE:
Apple.