Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Revise learning on carnivores, herbivores, omnivores by playing an active game.
• Understand that animals (including humans) can be grouped according to what they eat.
• Answer questions on diet by extracting data from a food survey and displaying it in tables and bar charts.
• Look for patterns and trends in the data and use this to ask further questions.

Activities

1. Play an active game to reinforce vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of animal feeding categories.
2. Review data from a food survey to answer a question on the consumption of either sugar or 5 a day portions.
3. Display data in tables and bar charts and use these to look for patterns and trends.

Investigation - pattern seeking
Review a food survey to answer questions on diet and look for patterns and trends display using tables and bar charts.

Vocabulary
Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, nutrition, diet, food chain, data, table, bar chart