Food, Nutrition and Food Tests Explained - Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Find the Pair Game - KS3

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on food, nutrition and food tests plus an enjoyable yet challenging find the pair game.

What’s Covered

• Carbohydrates provide energy
• Proteins needed for growth and repair
• Lipids (fats) provide energy and insulation
• Minerals needed for a healthy body – examples iron for red blood cells and calcium for teeth and bones
• Vitamins – enable body to use other nutrients more efficiently – examples Vit A for eyesight, Vit C prevents scurvy, Vit K for blood clotting
• Roughage (fiber) moves food through the gut.
• Why roughage helps prevent bowel cancer explained.
• Importance of water in the diet.
• Examples of foods containing the five nutrients and roughage.
• Excess carbohydrates and fats are laid down under the skin.
• A balanced diet explained.
• Energy in food and energy needed for activity are measured in kilojoules (kj).
• Working out the energy in a meal.

Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Game

• 42 question and answer cards
• Teacher’s answer sheet.
• Instruction sheet

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