Nutrients in a Healthy Diet
CONCEPTUALIdentify the seven components of a healthy diet — carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, and water — and explain the role of each in the body
Mastery Evidence
- Names all seven dietary components and a food source for each
- Explains what each nutrient does in the body (e.g. proteins for growth and repair)
- Identifies which nutrients provide energy and which do not
Assessment Prompt
“If [child] was planning a packed lunch, could they explain what each food group does for the body — why we need protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals?”
Curriculum Standards1 alignment
KS3.Sci.Bio.Nutrition.1The national curriculum in Englandcontent of a healthy human diet: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water, and why each is needed
Prerequisites1
- Animal NutritionhardAges 7—8
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- 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
Unlocks3
- Digestion & EnzymessoftAges 11—13
- Calculating Dietary EnergyhardAges 11—13
- Diet Imbalance & DeficiencyhardAges 11—13