Calculating Dietary Energy
PROCEDURALCalculate and evaluate energy intake and requirements in a healthy daily diet, interpreting food labels and nutritional data
Mastery Evidence
- 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
Assessment Prompt
“If [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 Standards1 alignment
KS3.Sci.Bio.Nutrition.2The national curriculum in Englandcalculations of energy requirements in a healthy daily diet
Prerequisites1
- Nutrients in a Healthy DiethardAges 11—13
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- Nutrients in a Healthy Diet hard
Calculating energy requirements requires knowing which dietary components provide energy
- Animal Nutrition hard
KS3 detailed diet components extend KS2 understanding that animals need the right nutrition
- Herbivores, Carnivores & Omnivores soft
Carnivore/herbivore/omnivore classification supports understanding nutrition differences
- What Living Things Need hard
Must know basic survival needs before learning about nutrition types and food groups
- Living Things Vocabulary soft
Describing what plants and animals need to survive uses life processes vocabulary: nutrition, growth, sensitivity
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