Happy Monday everyone!
As part of our unit of inquiry about keeping healthy, we measured out how much sugar was in different drinks. First the children made predictions as to which contained the most/least sugar, then we looked at the packaging and weighed out these amounts. Here are some photos of when I did this activity with my class last year (I didn't get many pictures this year!).
This year I've taped the bags of sugar to the window sill, put the drinks on the window sill and put a banner, reading "Rethink your drink!" on the window above them. If you want to download that banner for free from Google Drive, just click here!
Apologies for the photo. It's very hard to get a decent photo with all that natural light in the background!
Hello there,
This idea is not mine. I blatantly robbed it from the following picture I found on Pinterest.
Here's how we did it in my classroom:
I gave the children a number of different bottles/cans/cartons of drinks. I asked them to put them in order from what they thought contained the least amount of sugar to the most. There were lots of different ideas about this and it prompted some good discussion.
We looked at how you can find out how much sugar there is by checking out the label. The children then weighed out this amount of sugar and we displayed it in a plastic bag in front of the drink. We then reordered the items and discussed our thoughts.
Finally, we shared our learning by presenting these findings at the school assembly. (For any Mary I students out there, you'll be glad to hear that the wonderful "Brush Your Teeth" song made an appearance. I still can't get ch-ch-ch-ch ch-ch-ch-ch-ch out of my head!)
