Fitness & Nutrition

All | Biology | Design & Technology | Physics | Science | 11-16

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify the six key food types (Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Vitamins and Minerals and Fibre) and link to examples of each food type.
  2. Explain the different components in a healthy diet and why they are needed.
  3. Demonstrate your understanding of the different food groups by calculating the energy provided in a daily meal plan.
  4. Evaluate your own diet and describe how you can make it healthier.

 

Lesson Description

STEM Crew has partnered with INEOS UK to build our Fitness & Nutrition learning resources and worksheets. Here we introduce the topic of nutrition, food groups, and how energy requirements vary depending on activity levels. These worksheets use the real-life context of the British America’s Cup team – with the example of the boat crew vs. the shore team.

Engaging interactive Fitness & Nutrition learning resources enable you test students’ knowledge across KS3 and KS4. Our worksheets cover a broad spectrum of components involved in a healthy diet; why different food groups are needed, why people of different ages or activity levels need different amounts of energy, and how to calculate the energy provided in a daily meal plan.

The resources can be used either in sequence or flexibly as an introduction to a topic, or for a quick learning activity. The differentiated worksheets reinforce learning objectives for this topic.

This video explores how the team build their diets to stay fit and healthy during training and for races. Take a look at how the components of their diet differ from the diet of someone who is less active.

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2.Video transcript for offline learning
3.Worksheet 1 Explore food groups, energy and healthy choices. An introduction suggested for 11-14 year olds.
4.Worksheet 1 Answers Answers to Worksheet 1.
5.Worksheet 2 Explain food groups, energy and healthy choices. More advanced tasks suggested for 11-14 year olds, and an introduction suggested for 14-16 year olds.
6.Worksheet 2 Answers Answers to Worksheet 2.
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CURRICULUM LINKS

ENGLAND
KS3 NC – Biology
Content of a healthy human diet: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water, and why each is needed.
Calculations of energy requirements in a healthy daily diet.

KS3 NC – Physics
Energy, comparing energy values of different foods (from labels) (kJ).

KS3 NC – D&T, Food technology
Understand and apply the principles of nutrition.

GCSE – an introduction to the nutritional properties of ingredients/food products.
OCR
A521 Introduction to designing and making requires a clear focus on nutrition.

Edexcel
Unit 2 – dietary functions and sources of sugar, starch, fibre, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and energy balance.

AQA
Examine the nutritional properties of ingredients/ food products. An understanding of the nutritional characteristics of the main nutrients: proteins, fats, carbohydrates – sugars and starches, vitamins and minerals – Vitamins A, B, C and D, Calcium, Iron.
Have knowledge of nutritional advice. Interpret and apply current nutritional/healthy eating guidelines, e.g. apply the recommendations of the ‘Eat well plate’, 5 a day, high fire (NSP).
Be able to apply the nutritional advice when analysing existing food products. Understand that diets with deficiencies or excesses of particular nutrients may lead to health related problems.
List the different components in a healthy human diet.
Explain why each of the components in a healthy diet is needed.
Explain why people of different ages/activity levels need different amounts of energy in their diets.
Calculate the energy provided in a daily menu plan.
Design a healthy daily menu plan for a person with normal activity levels and with high activity levels.

WALES
KS3 Science
Understand how food is used by the body as fuel during respiration and why the components of a balanced diet are needed for good health.

KS3 Design & Technology
Apply current healthy eating messages in relation to the nutritional needs of different groups in society.
Classify food by commodity/group and understand the characteristics of a broad range of ingredients, including their nutritional properties.

SCOTLAND
Fourth level Technologies.
Explore the properties and functionality of ingredients to establish their suitability for a task at home or in the world of work.
Showing creativity and innovation, design, plan and produce increasingly complex food items which satisfy the needs of the user, at home or in the world of work.

National 4 Biology
Research/investigate the importance of suitable conditions eg diet, to maintain growth and development. Debate the links between diet and growth and development disorders.

NORTHERN IRELAND
KS3 Mathematics

Know how to collect, record, present and interpret data on food content.
Use the details of various types of food content to make decisions about what foods and meals may be healthy.
Investigate relationships between different food content and make decisions based on the results.

KS3 Science & Technology
Explore physical, chemical and biological effects on personal health, for example, inherited characteristics, exercise and nutrition.

GCSE Biology
In the context of how science works, students should be able to:
1.3.7 understand that energy requirements vary with age, gender, activity levels and pregnancy.

Subject

All, Biology, Design & Technology, Physics, Science

Key Stage

11-16

Resource For

Students, Teachers

Type

Film, Teachers' notes, Worksheets

Topic

Nutrition
 
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