Puppet Theatre with sweetener characters
Sweetener Education Teacher Kits available.

Designed for 3rd - 5th grade teachers. The kit will include:
  • Kalea & Her Sweet Tooth, narrative non-fiction book (50 pages English) Buy here.  Read aloud here.
  • Lala y Su Encanto Por El Azúcar, narrative non-fiction book (50 pages Spanish, published soon) Buy here.
  • Book discussion questions and activity worksheets.
  • Lesson plan on nutritional labels and sugar content
  • Guide to sweeteners - fold up wallet size Click here
  • Mini Mobile Museum of Sugar Trading cards in color.

​Other Curriculum and School Resources we recommend

UCSF Sugar Science
​SugarScience Resources
The Bigger Picture Videos

Center for Ecoliteracy Teacher Resources
Nourish Videoswww.nourishlife.org/videos-all/

Sugar Museum Lessons:
Please MAKE A COPY in google slides and then edit and make it your own. We appreciate any feedback or advise using these lessons.
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Lesson 1: Frankenfood (3rd - high school and college art class) 
Multi-part adaptable lesson on future food, inventing a food, learning about GMO, graphic design packaging and sculpting an object. 

Lesson 2: Reading Nutritional Labels (3-5th grade)
Lesson designed to learn about how to read nutritional labels. Then, make up a simple 2-3 ingredient snack and make a nutritional label for a serving size.
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Lesson 3: Taste Buds and Tasting Sweetness (3-5th grade)
Lesson designed to learn about the taste buds including a science-based tasting sweetness project. Can be adapted to taste other ingredients. 


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Read book...
1. Take Quiz. Click here for quiz (copy and make your own then edit)
2. Make up characters for ingredients
3. Scavenger hunt: Look through food at home to find some sweeteners.
4. Make a poster or PSA about one sweetener that you research to educate others at the school.
5. Do lesson 3 on taste buds