Key Learning Area:

Health/PE/Math

Grade Level: 5/6

Lesson: 1

Curriculum Links: (ACARA 2016)

Year 5/6 Personal, Social and Community Health. Being health, safe and active.

Content Description: Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.
(ACPPS054)

Year 5/6 Personal, Social and Community Health. Contributing to healthy and active
communities.
Content Description: Investigate the role of preventative health in promoting and
maintaining health safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities. (ACPPS058)
Mathematics Year 5- Statistics and Probability. Data and Probability
Content Description: Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables,
appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies. (ACMSP119)
Critical and Creative Thinking:

Inquiring identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas

Generating ideas, possibilities and actions

Learning outcomes Students will:

Read nutritional facts labels to determine the amount of
sugar in beverages
Compare the amount of sugar between beverages
Construct a column graph to represent the amount of
sugar in drinks
Determine if drinks are healthy or not, based on their
sugar content

Whole class, individual

and partner activities.
Approx. Time: 50 minutes

Resources:
Drink containers or nutrition fact labels from the internet
Student worksheet- How Much Sugar is in Your Drink
Graphing paper or online graphing tool
Food labels 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrdCBqFYDyo
Teacher computer and screen to show power point and YouTube clip

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Students explore the question; what happens if we have too much sugar in our
diets? Responses should focus around diseases such as diabetes, dental
cavities and obesity.
Teacher explains to students that in todays lesson they will learn how to read
food labels to help them know if a food is healthy or not.
Share the YouTube presentation Label Reading 101 (6 minutes) How to select
healthy food quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrdCBqFYDyo
Reading labels can be difficult to understand at first but with practise students
will gain the skills. For todays lesson students will focus on the sugar content
of the drink.
Allocate a different commercial drink container to students. If these are not
available, labels from online can be used.
Reading a drink label activity. Students are given a drink to study or students
can select their own. It is best if students can study a beverage they would
normally drink. Answer questions about their food label. (Drink label activity
sheet attached).
Students work individually, with a partner or in a small group to determine
how much sugar is in their beverage.
Graphing Activity-After recording their data on the activity sheet students
will construct a graph to represent the amount of sugar in each container. This
can be hand drawn or constructed using an online tool.
Students are to identify the healthiest drink or alternatively they could
identify the unhealthiest drink.
Class discussion- How much sugar is too much and why? Class suggest
healthy drinks they should be drinking. Milk, water, fresh fruit and vegetable
juices.
In conclusion teacher reinforces the importance of reading food labels to
determine if a drink/food is healthy or not.

Assessment Opportunities:
Student questions and answers in class and group discussions.
Student recording sheet- How Much Sugar is in Your Drink?
Construction of a column graph.

Extension Activity/Lesson 2:
Watch Jamie Olivers Sugar Rush Documentary.
Students answer questions based on the documentary. (See attached)
Follow up with class discussion.
Use Jamies online drink calculator to determine how much sugar is in your drink.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jamies-sugar-rush

How Much Sugar is in Your Drink?

Drink Name

Serving Size

(Sample)

375ml

Amount of
grams of
Sugar in
Drink

Amount of
sugar in
teaspoons

Healthy?

42g

10 spoons

NO

Yes/No

FANTA

Jamie Oliver's Sugar Rush

Health experts warn sugar is as dangerous as?
(2 things)

What is the main reason child are hospitalised in the United
Kingdom?


According to the World Health Organization, what is the daily
recommendation of sugar for adults?
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3 teaspoons
7 teaspoons
1 cup
17 teaspoons

How much sugar does the average adult in the UK consume
each day?
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4 teaspoons
40 teaspoons
400 teaspoons
14 teaspoons

 Jamie

Oliver's Sugar Rush

What are some of the health problems associated with

consuming too much sugar?


How are sugary products marketed to kids and teens?



How can kids and teens increase their awareness of added
sugar and begin to make more nutritious choices?



Introducing a tax on sugary drinks is one way to try and reduce
consumption of these drinks. How else could we do this?



What concerns you most about Jamie Oliver's documentary,
Sugar Rush?

Jamie Olivers Sugar Drink Convertor

References
Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority. (2016). The Australian Curriculum: Health and
Physical Education (Version 8.1). Year 5/6. Retrieved from
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/health-and-physical-education/curriculum/f10?layout=1 - cdcode=ACPPS054&level=5-6

Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority. (2016). The Australian Curriculum:

Mathematics (Version 8.1). Year 5.
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/curriculum/f-10?layout=1

Chanel 4 Television Corporation. (2016). Jamies Sugar Rush. Retrieved from

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jamies-sugar-rush

Reid, D. (Nov 5, 2008). Label Reading 101. (Video file). Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrdCBqFYDyo