Sugar Detectives

• access to the internet
• Link to FSS website for pupils on sugar and health
• Selection of different drinks of varying sugar levels
• Sugar cubes
• Weighing scales
• Teacher's resource sheet about sugar levels in drinks
• Teacher's notes on making healthier choices

Maths – graph / weighing / measuring

Science – weighing / measuring

Warm up

• explain the effects of sugar and what it can do to health
  • information can be found on the FSS website

Drinks sorting exercise

1. pupils guess how much sugar they think is in their own drinks (per 100ml or per portion), put in order of most to least
2. pupils discuss their own consumption of sugar to understand what drinks they consume that contain sugar
3. visually show sugar using sugar cubes that have been weighed out to match sugar in pupils own drinks
4. pupils to then plot amounts on a graph which can be put on the classroom wall

Consolidation

1. pupils investigate and identify positive alternatives to the drinks they currently consume
2. pupils present back their findings to the class

SAY – Questioning

DO – Observations

DO – Identifying appropriate alternative drinks

Consider CfE Benchmarks, for example:

• explains factors that could influence choice of food, for example, media, poverty, peer pressure and potential impact on health
• evaluates information on food packaging and uses it to make informed choices when selecting food for given situations

Support

Use a sliding scale to visually represent drinks and the sugar they contain.

Challenge

Pupils pair up and calculate how much sugar is consumed in a week from drinks and plot on a graph to visually represent.