Sugar Smart Trumps

Pupils make a set of fun trump cards and compare the sugar content in a variety of food and drink products. Part of the Food Detectives KS1 lesson plan. Includes:

• Sugar Smart Trumps - instructions
• Sugar Smart Trumps - cut-out sheet
• Sugar Smart Clue Sheet - fact sheet

A fun way to get pupils thinking about healthy swap ideas at home and engage their parents.

Try this!

After homework is handed in, suggest that the pupils play Sugar Smart Trumps with their friends, in the classroom or at playtime.

Curriculum

Supports the design and technology, science, mathematics and English curricula

Design and Technology

• Explore and evaluate a range of existing products

Science

• Say which part of the body is associated with each sense
• Describe the importance of eating the right amounts of different types of food
• Perform simple tests
• Identify and classify
• Identify and name a variety of everyday materials
• Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

Mathematics

• Practise counting and ordering numbers
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
• Solve (one-step) problems that involve addition and subtraction

English – spoken

• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes
• Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints

English – written

• Write down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
• Discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils\

In the classroom

Give pupils the Sugar Smart Trumps activity sheet (photocopy or print both sides on separate sheets of paper) and the Sugar Smart Clue Sheet explaining to them that their homework task is to make a set of fun trump cards and to compare the sugar content in a variety of food and drink products.

Encourage them to talk to their parents about what they have discovered in their time as a food detective and why it is a good idea to swap sugary drinks, breakfast cereals, snacks and puddings for healthier alternatives such as fruit and vegetables. Which swaps might the pupils and their families make to ensure that they stay within their age appropriate daily sugar limit?

Learning objectives

By the end of these activities, pupils will be able to:

• understand and compare the sugar content in a variety of food and drink products
• select lower-sugar alternatives to high-sugar products