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Consumer Literacy Scavenger Hunts – FREE DOWNLOAD

Consumer Literacy Scavenger Hunts – FREE DOWNLOAD

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Teach your students family consumer science with two easy-to-use printable scavenger hunt activity sheets! This is a fun and interactive resource for applying health and medical literacy in day-to-day decision-making.

These scavenger hunts enable learners to:

  1. Recognize and locate ingredients/materials and products that are healthy,
  2. Recognize and locate ingredients/materials and products that are not healthy, and
  3. Navigate shopping centers, as well as recognize and locate amenities and healthcare services.

Consumer choices can substantially affect health and quality of life on a daily basis as well as over the long term. Therefore, instruction on ingredients or materials used to make products is a must-have in any medical literacy curriculum. Consumers, as well as decision makers in industry who develop, design, and market products, need to grapple with questions concerning ingredients or materials.

A basic yet broad and holistic understanding of consumer products is an important part of health education and improving health literacy to promote health outcomes. Knowledge about ingredients and materials helps people to make informed health decisions. Learn with this fun and interactive scavenger hunt activity!

Standards:
This book encourages learners to know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3), and identify real-life connections between words and their use (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.5).
 
How to use these resources:
Bring these sheets to a large grocery store or shopping mall respectively on a field trip or outing. Students 12+ may be able to independently examine labels on products in a store. For younger students 8+ who can read, these scavenger hunts may be completed with ample help from an adult.
 
Students will be introduced to medical terminology, language, and concepts of the topics listed below. These resources may be used with other media as part of a multi-modal educational experience. In person or virtual instruction may be delivered before, during, or after the learners work through the activity sheets. Activity sheets may be used to prepare for a flipped classroom, as part of an interactive group session, or as a take-home assignment.
 
Resources Include:
● 1 Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt
● 1 Shopping Mall Scavenger Hunt
 
Topics Include:
● Packaging material (e.g. glass vs. other)
● Organic foods
● Gluten free foods
● Natural ingredients, materials, and products
● Synthetic ingredients, materials, and products
● Recognizing and locating amenities and healthcare services in a shopping center
 

Author: Joan Tu

Publication Date: April 20, 2024

Page Count: 2

Format: Digital Download

Worksheets are in: Black & White

Ages: 8+ (requires adult help and supervision)

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TERMS OF USE:

One download per educator. Each educator may print hard copies for students.

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