Food Chemistry
Integration Ideas and Activities
Lesson 8
Learning More About Glucose

Lesson
Activities to Consider
Tools
8
Mathematics

Have students check food labels from class collection to determine presence and types of sugars used; find percentages of foods that contain some sugar; graph results

Language Arts

Perform fat test using low fat milk, skim milk, whole milk, and cream; create a table to show results

Create a Venn diagram comparing the two kinds of carbohydrates

Plan a service project for the American Diabetes Foundation

Record any sugar "surprises" (foods that contain sugars that surprised students); share these findings


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