Year 3 - Science
Amounts of food
Healthy eating
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Unit Summary
This unit covers how animals, including humans, obtain nutrition from their diet, emphasising the need for the right types and amounts of food. It involves asking questions, gathering and presenting data, using scientific language, and interpreting evidence to answer questions and support findings.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain why the amount of food humans eat is important.
Key Notes
- A dietician is a scientist who studies food and advises people on their food and nutrition choices.
- Eating too much, or not enough, of certain types of food can be harmful to our health.
- Information about amounts of food can be found by using secondary sources of information.
- The Eatwell plate is a guide based on how much you should eat from each food group.
Vocabulary To Learn
- dietician: A dietician is a person who scientifically studies and gives advice about food and eating.
- nutrition: Nutrition is what you take into your body as food and the way that it influences your health.
- amount: An amount is a quantity of something.
- secondary sources: Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that a 'balanced' diet should include equal-sized proportions of the different food groups (rather than appropriate amounts of each food group).
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
A dietician is a scientist who studies food and advises people on their food and nutrition choices. Eating too much, or not enough, of certain types of food can be harmful to our health.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'dietician'
A dietician is a person who scientifically studies and gives advice about food and eating. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think that a 'balanced' diet should include equal-sized proportions of the different food groups (rather than appropriate amounts of each food group). Correction: Explanation that humans need to eat different amounts of foods and that the Eatwell plate shows us the amounts of each food that we should eat.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Different diets for different people Study Guide
- Fats in food: plan and do (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Fats in food: review (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Food miles (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Local food (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Making or finding food Study Guide
- Nutrient-rich meal: doing and reviewing (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Nutrient-rich meal: planning (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Nutrition from food Study Guide
- Sustainable sources of food (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Types of food Study Guide
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