Media Literacy: Consumer Awareness Lesson - Breakfast Sandwiches

Media Literacy & Consumer Awareness Breakfast Sandwiches | PDF & Digital Formats: Help your students develop a deeper understanding of media literacy and consumer awareness with this engaging lesson on the truth behind popular breakfast sandwiches. This lesson examines three popular breakfast sandwiches and discusses the nutritional content of each one.

• This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™. The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.

Curriculum Links

This set of lessons can be used for media literacy lessons or as part of your Health Curriculum where healthy eating and nutrition facts are a curriculum focus i.e. Ontario Health Curriculum Grade 7 & 8.

Lesson Outline

1. Introduction to Consumer Awareness
2. Breakfast Sandwiches Questions and Graphic Organizer
3. Journal Entry Assessment (2 Options)
4. Breakfast Sandwiches Quiz
5. Extend Your Learning Assignment

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• Media Literacy: Consumer Awareness Lesson – Gender Price Differences
• Media Literacy: Consumer Awareness Lesson – Outlet vs. Retail
• Media Literacy: Consumer Awareness Lesson – Breakfast Sandwiches
• Media Literacy: Consumer Awareness Lesson – Misleading Food Labels
• Media Literacy Review Writing 16 Lessons

Resource Notes

• Regular reliable internet access is required for this resource
• Internet must be able to access online video sources
• This resource is a non-editable PDF, with Google Classroom compatible PDFs included

Unit Includes

• Differentiated and engaging activities
• Answer key
• Individual PDFs of student pages for uploading to Google Classroom or other online learning portals
• Google Slides graphic organizers for 1 to 1 technology classrooms
• Detailed lesson plan
• Lessons divided up with title pages for easy access
• Detailed teacher directions