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💚 3rd Grade · Health & SELNHES 3Unit 3: Nutrition & physical activity

Reading food labels

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🎯 Objective: Students read and compare nutrition labels.

Lesson outline

  1. Label stations.
  2. Compare.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one comparison.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

NHES 3

National Health Education Standards + CASEL SEL competencies (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read nutrition labels
  • Plan balanced meals and activity

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

😀 Emotions dice⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Nutrition & physical activity”

  1. Reading food labels
  2. Balanced meals
  3. Sugary drinks

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