Year 3
Food and Our Bodies

Contents
L1 - Can I compare the diets of different animals?
L2 - Can I understand the food groups?
L3 - Can I understand the importance of a balanced diet?
L4 - Can I understand the skeletal system and it's role in how our body moves?
L5 - Can I understand how muscles support the skeletal system?

06.09.2022

Misconceptions - Why do we need food?

Luca

Dolly

Clayton

Qirat

Today we started our new unit on Food and Our Bodies. We discussed why we need food and nutrition. We recapped learning from year 2 about Herbivores, Carnivores and Omnivores and looked at why different animals need different types of food.

Alot of children thought we needed food so we would not starve. We discussed how this was correct but it was more about the nutrients we get from the food and the energy.

Alex helped us out with more of an explanation

We recapped learning about what animals like to eat and their food groups. We retrieved learning from Year 2 about Herbivores, Carnivores and Omnivores.

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We reminded ourselves of the scientific vocabulary; herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. Then we worked together to sort animals into a Venn diagram. We then went through and corrected our initial thoughts. You can see our misconceptions being corrected on our diagrams.

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Finally, our main task!

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Hollie

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We created a balanced meal plan for either a crocodile, lion or a monkey. This was to show the importance of food for each of these animals and what their diet was like.

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Hussain

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David and Tameemah

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Skyla

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Nirvana and Clayton

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Michael

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Tameemah

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Victoria

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Dolly and Jaiden

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Alex

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Lucas

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Hussain

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13.09.2022

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BIG QUESTION!

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Why do marathon runners eat pasta before a big race?

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Anna Nevaeh Tameemah

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Misconception!

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We discussed why runners eat a big bowl of pasta, and Neveah understood they don't just eat it because they are hungry!

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In today's lesson, we looked at the importance of a balanced diet. We reminded ourselves of the food groups and looked at eating them in moderation and why.

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We retrieved the information on omnivores, carnivores and herbivores and completed a tally to vote for which we thought humans were.

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Zosha Gabriela

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Bailey

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In trios, we discussed which food group we thought was the most important and why. See an example of our discussion

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Finally, we researched the food groups and looked at why we needed them. We created a fact file showing why we need different parts of the balanced diet and drew our favourite food of this food group.

Bailey and Zosha

Jaiden

Michael and Hollie

Anna and Qirat

MISCONCEPTION!

Syna and Victoria

We then used the food pyramid to sort foods into the correct food groups.

Some of us weren't sure about oil! So we had a chat about how oil was a fat and it helped us cook our food!

20.09.2022

Nirvana

Michael

Tilly

Retrieval!
What are the food groups and why do we need them?

Hussain

Tameemah

Today we retrieved the learning we had done over the past few weeks, and consolidated our learning. We looked at the food groups, discussed balanced diets, then applied our learning to filling in scientific tables and graphs to build our scientific skills.

Our first task was to look at a food diary for a stranger, and improve it. See the original food diary, then watch some of our presentations to see how we changed it.

Tilly & Clayton

Michael & Hollie

Gabriella & Jaiden

Alex & Anna

Gabriella & Jaiden

Tameemah & David

Qirat & Mosab

Final activity - Using our scientific skills to create graphs and charts!

We looked at a food diary for our teacher, we created a tally chart counting the different food groups to make sure it was a balanced diet. We then created a bar chart to show the balanced diet.

Some of us had a go at finding conclusions in our results:

Qirat

Jaiden

27.09.2022

Today we looked at our bodies. In particular, we looked at our skeletons. We first looked at why we need our skeletons and the special job they do in our body.

Jaiden

Anna

Rocco didn't want to speak on camera but said:
'The skeleton is a very hard thing that keeps us stood up and holds our skin up. It also stops our brain from being hurt.'

Nirvana

Tyler - Misconception. We thought bones protected our bones, but we remembered it protected our organs like brain and heart.

Aaron Rocco Maghol(Supported) Dolly Michael

We then looked at the names of different bones and looked at what they did or protected.

Lastly, we looked at joints and identified how they move to make a skeleton in a pose that we can do because of our joints.

Nirvana Luca, Alex Dolly, Tameemah, Gabriella, Rocco