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Food for thought

Science Year 3
This unit is part of Year 3 Science Keeping Healthy

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Objectives

Get introduced to clients in need of advice on diet, health and exercise and take on the task of becoming a personal trainer. Tabulate, draw graphs and analyse data from a survey of their client’s diet and use it to answer questions.

Science Objectives
i) Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.

Working Scientifically

  1. Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help answer questions.
  2. Record findings using simple scientific language, bar charts, and tables.

Other Curriculum Areas
Maths - Statistics

  • Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
  • Solve one-step and two-step questions.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Set of animal cards per group (on different coloured paper and cut up)
  • A set of 5 Diet Riot labels for each group (printable session resource)
  • 6 clients (prearranged for role play) or Hamilton resource alternative
  • 6 Client information folders
  • Printouts of task, bar chart and reference sheets

Additional Resources

  • 2 PE hoops per group
  • A completed Health and Exercise survey for each client
  • Bag of granulated sugar and teaspoon
  • Printouts of task, bar chart and reference sheets

Weblinks
BBC Bitesize KS1 film clips on animal diets and food chains (useful revision) from www.bbc.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Revise learning on carnivores, herbivores, omnivores by playing an active game.
  • Understand that animals (including humans) can be grouped according to what they eat.
  • Answer questions on diet by extracting data from a food survey and displaying it in tables and bar charts.
  • Look for patterns and trends in the data and use this to ask further questions.

Activities

  1. Play an active game to reinforce vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of animal feeding categories.
  2. Review data from a food survey to answer a question on the consumption of either sugar or 5 a day portions.
  3. Display data in tables and bar charts and use these to look for patterns and trends.

Investigation - pattern seeking
Review a food survey to answer questions on diet and look for patterns and trends display using tables and bar charts.

Vocabulary
Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, nutrition, diet, food chain, data, table, bar chart

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