Lesson Plan for Sugar Preference

Lesson Title SUGAR PREFERENCE

Objectives 1. Participants will be able to define Sugar Preference

2. Participants will be able to name foods that contain sugar and come up with healthier
(What are the alternatives
participants going to 3. Participants will be able to determine which variants are at high risk for sugar preference
learn and why it’s
important)

Nutrition Ideas: Catch phrase/proverb in spanish about the dangers of sugar?

Ideas: Rhyme with CT/TT?
message

Lesson Activity description and Materials and Resources

Component Facilitator Role/Notes (What is needed for this activity?)

SET UP Presentation (USB), handouts, test

(Pre-lesson) tubes with sugar, test strips

Definition of sugar Powerpoint presentation (USB)

INTROS Definition of variant
(_ minutes) Definition of nutrigenomics and its relation to sugar
preference

ACTIVITY 1: Have the group list the foods they ate yesterday that Paper, pencil
might contain sugar Handout of common foods for our
(_ minutes) population that contain sugar (Ex:
Match participants list with a handout Conchas)

ACTIVITY 2: Test tube activity with sugar of common foods (match Test tubes, sugar
(_ minutes) handout)
Have participants guess which food has the correct
amount of sugar per test tube

ACTIVITY 3: Choosing alternatives to favorite sugary foods Powerpoint presentation (USB)

(_ minutes)

ACTIVITY 4: Sweet/Bitter taste test with test strips to see if you have Test strips (what kind?)
(_ minutes) a preference

CLOSING Review of results: Genes, Markers, Risk Variants Powerpoint presentation (USB)
(_ minutes) Pass out “fake variants” to participants and test their Cards with CT, TT, and other variants
knowledge if they can determine if the variant given to
them makes them at high risk or not (hypothetically
speaking)
Ask participants if they have a high variant, what would
they do (to test how well they can apply new knowledge)
Content Check:
a. How will the lesson address response efficacy? How does consuming X affect diabetes prevention/health outcomes?

b. How will the lesson address self efficacy? How does the lesson address confidence in doing the behaviors discussed?

c. How will the lesson address susceptibility and severity of diabetes? How bad would it be if they had diabetes?