Grade 4

Is it credible?

Checking food information. Part of moving and feeling good.

Is it credible?

Checking food information · Alberta Grade 4 · maddyhelps.com

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For each source, ask two questions: who made it, and are they selling something? Then tick how much to trust it about food.

Source	Trust a lot	Check first	Be careful
The label on a sports drink bottle
Canada's Food Guide
An online video by a famous athlete who sells vitamins
A school nurse or a doctor
An advertisement for a cereal
A friend who read something online

The one question that helped most

What Canada's Food Guide says half the plate should be

For the grown-up

Is it credible?

Trust a lot: Canada's Food Guide, a school nurse or doctor. Check first: the drink label (the facts on it are regulated, the claims on the front are advertising), a friend. Be careful: the athlete selling vitamins and the cereal advertisement — both are selling the thing they are praising. Half the plate should be vegetables and fruits.

“Are they selling something?” is the question that does most of the work, and it transfers to every other kind of information a child will ever meet.

Why this matters is on the moving and feeling good page. More sheets