2.44 Unique Cereal Boxes
This is Lesson 44 (“Unique Cereal Boxes”) from the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Grow Your PALS Program Guide, Food Science unit. In this one-on-one mentoring lesson, the mentee examines the parts of a cereal box and its food label, explores why and how foods are packaged, and designs and creates their own new cereal box that represents them.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Create a new food label and cereal box.
- Explore how foods are packaged.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 15 minutes.
- Materials
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- writing surface
- notebook paper
- 2 empty cereal boxes
- construction paper
- tape
- glue
- scissors
- markers, colored paper, glitter and other material to decorate a box
- Unit
- Food Science
- Lesson Type
- One-on-one
- Precepts
- G. Physical Growth — G1. Practice healthy eating habits; H. Social Growth — H1. Acknowledge that differences exist among people
- Key Terms
- None
- Resources
- http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/foodsmarts/article4.html
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NPH-H.K-4.1Health Promotion and Disease Prevention