Year 3 - Science
Nutrition from food
Healthy eating
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This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
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 identify that humans get nutrition from what they eat.
Key Notes
- Knowing the nutritional information of what we eat is important so we can make informed decisions.
- The nutritional information of most pre-packed food in the UK can be found on the label.
- Some nutritional information is colour-coded to make it simple to understand quickly.
- Nutritional information is provided per 100 grams or per 100 millilitres and sometimes per portion of the food or drink.
- Nutrition information helps us compare foods in a fair way and be aware of foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar.
Vocabulary To Learn
- nutritional information: Nutritional information is facts about the content of different foods.
- informed decision: An informed decision is a choice you make when you have all of the information about the decision topic.
- label: A label is a sign that gives us information about the thing it is with.
- colour-coded: If a set of objects are colour-coded, they are in different colours so that people can recognise them.
- calorie: Calories are often used as a measurement of the amount of energy that food provides.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some food groups, e.g. fats, are 'bad' for you.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
Knowing the nutritional information of what we eat is important so we can make informed decisions. The nutritional information of most pre-packed food in the UK can be found on the label.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'nutritional information'
Nutritional information is facts about the content of different foods. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Some food groups, e.g. fats, are 'bad' for you. Correction: Explanation of how using nutritional information can help us to make informed decisions about the foods that we eat.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Amounts of food Study Guide
- 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
- Sustainable sources of food (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Types of food Study Guide
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