Calculating Dietary Energy

ScienceOrganisms & Life ProcessesAges 11–13

Calculate and evaluate energy intake and requirements in a healthy daily diet, interpreting food labels and nutritional data

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Read energy units and compare fictional totals without prescribing intake.

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Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.

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Instructions

Use made-up label data, no food diary, body weight, calorie target or personal diet evaluation. Calculations are a classroom model only.

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partial: Calculate and evaluate energy intake and requirements in a healthy daily diet, interpreting food labels and nutritional data
Bounded objective: Read energy units and compare fictional totals without prescribing intake. Age/activity-based requirement estimation blocked: no validated model/reference supplied. Hypothetical arithmetic only, not medical or nutritional assessment.
partial: Reads and interprets a nutritional information label (kJ and kcal)
Fictional label units and portions interpreted.
blocked: Estimates daily energy requirements for a person of a given age/activity level
Real age/activity requirements lack validated reference model; arithmetic reference explicitly arbitrary.
partial: Compares the energy content of different diets and identifies surpluses or deficits
Fictional totals compared to arbitrary reference, not personal diet adequacy.
partial: If {{name}} was reading food labels at the supermarket with you, could they work out roughly whether a meal gives too much, too little, or about the right amount of energy for a day?
Try offers new-data-calculation for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Age/activity-based requirement estimation blocked: no validated model/reference supplied. Hypothetical arithmetic only, not medical or nutritional assessment.

Age/activity-based requirement estimation blocked: no validated model/reference supplied. Hypothetical arithmetic only, not medical or nutritional assessment.

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Reads and interprets a nutritional information label (kJ and kcal)
Estimates daily energy requirements for a person of a given age/activity level
Compares the energy content of different diets and identifies surpluses or deficits

“If your child was reading food labels at the supermarket with you, could they work out roughly whether a meal gives too much, too little, or about the right amount of energy for a day?”

Curriculum record

Type: Procedural
Subject: Science
Domain: Organisms & Life Processes
Age range: Ages 11–13

Standards

uk-nc-2013:KS3.Sci.Bio.Nutrition.2