SCIENCE LESSON 6:

IMPORTANCE OF PRODUCT
LABELS

MAGSUSUNOG ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL
 OBJECTIVES:

1.Observe and read product

labels.
2.Explain the importance of
reading product labels.
 REVIEW:
• What properties of a
material affect one’s
health?
• What common materials
at home undergo decay?
• There are materials at home which
are manufactured products.
• Most of these products are sold in
plastic packages, boxes, glass
containers or in tin cans.
• When you buy these products, do
you bother to read the labels on its
packages?
 GROUP ACTIVITY
WHAT TO DO:
1. Look for the product label in each
of the materials.
2. List any information you can get
from the product label in the data
chart below.
 FOOD USE MANUFACTURI EXPIRY DATE PRECAUTION(I
PRODUCTS NG DATE F ANY)
• Look for the information you get from the
product labels.
• Record it in the data chart below.
MEDICINE USES DATE EXPIRY DATE WARNING
AND MANUFACTU SIGNS/SYMB
HOUSEHOLD RED OLS
CHEMICALS/
BRAND
 EXPLANATION
• What are the kinds of products that you
have in your activity? (Food Products,
Medicine/Drugs, Housekeeping
products.)
• Do you have all these materials at home?
• Have you experienced buying these
products?
• When you buy these products, do you
bother to read the labels on the package
or container?
• As you read the labels of the empty
packages of the products that you
have in your activity, what
information did you get? (content,
expiry date….)
• Do all the labels provide enough
information about the products?
• What is the importance of knowing
how to read product labels?
• Brand name and content of the
packaged product,
uses/proper usage, expiry
dates and the necessary
precautions or warnings in
using the product should be
provided in order for the
buying public to be informed.
• There are some products
that we transfer from
original labeled container
and put in ordinary
unlabeled containers. These
become dangerous when
mistaken for another and
used for another purpose.
 GUIDE QUESTIONS
• What information are given by the
labels of the products?
• What are the manufacturing dates and
expiry dates of each of the products?
• Do all labels provide enough
information about the food products?
• If you will compare the labels of the
food products to the labels of
drugs/medicines and housekeeping
products, what similarities will you find?
• What information found in the
product labels do you think is
the most important? Why?
• What is the importance of
knowing how to read product
labels?
 ELABORATION
• Product labels are intended to
ensure the safety of the user.
• They give the product ingredients
(to which someone might be
allergic.)
• They describe the safe way of
using the product, including the
dose (in the case of medicine.)
• They warn possible
dangers.
• They describe the proper
way of storing the
product.
• Explain why people need to consider the
information on product labels when buying
products to be stored at home.
• (People need to consider the
information on product labels when
buying products to be stored at home
to be aware of how to use the
product especially in the case of
medicines. Labels warn possible
dangers.)
 REMEMBER THESE:
• Household materials are classified
according to their use.
• They are classified as food products,
medicine, personal care, cleaning
products, and pesticides.
• People protect oneself and the other
members of the family from the
household materials by reading product
label.
• Product labels are intended to
ensure the safety of the user.
• They give the product ingredients (
to which someone might be
allergic).
• They warn possible dangers.
• They describe the proper way of
storing the product.
 EVALUATION
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is not correct.
1. Product labels warns people possible
dangers.
2. Product labels describe proper way of
storing the product.
3. Product labels gives us information
on how to use it.
4. Product labels displays unnecessary
information.
5. Buy products with unlabeled
information.
 ASSIGNMENT

Draw a product commonly

found in your kitchen. Read the
labels and list it in your Science
Notebook.
THANK YOU!