Food Chemistry
	Integration Ideas and Activities
	Lesson 15 Examining Labels: Making the Connection

Lesson	Activities to Consider	Tools
15	Mathematics
	Examine several different cereal boxes to determine the price, weight, and serving size for each cereal; decide what one serving size is and compute its actual cost and nutritional value
	Language Arts
	Create a new snack food by combining several foods at home; design a package and complete the nutritional information panel
	Read about several vitamins then discuss why information about certain vitamins is listed on food labels
	Read How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal Kaur Khals: Categorize the foods into food groups Celebrate with a classroom pizza or health food party
	Use class collection of food labels to prepare a menu; have students explain their choices
	Contact (consider e-mail) institutes of higher learning to learn more about food nutrition careers; report