Animal Nutrition
Understand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food
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“Can your child explain why people need to eat different types of food like fruit, protein, and carbohydrates to stay healthy?”
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- Activity. Understand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food
What to notice. Name the main food groups: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, fibre, water • Explain that animals get energy from food they eat, unlike plants which make their own • Describe what happens with too much or too little of a food group (e.g. weak bones without calcium)
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Can your child explain why people need to eat different types of food like fruit, protein, and carbohydrates to stay healthy?
Understand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food
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- Name the main food groups: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, fibre, water
- Explain that animals get energy from food they eat, unlike plants which make their own
- Describe what happens with too much or too little of a food group (e.g. weak bones without calcium)
“Can your child explain why people need to eat different types of food like fruit, protein, and carbohydrates to stay healthy?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Organisms & Life Processes
- Age range
- Ages 7–8
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