Lesson Planning

Teaching

• 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.
• Use survey data to answer questions and display it in the form of tables and bar charts.
• Look for trends and patterns in the data.

Activities

1. Play an active game to reinforce vocabulary and understanding of animal feeding categories.
2. Review data from a food survey to answer a question on either sugar intake 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, problem solving
Teignford Hockey team have done a health survey of their food, drink and exercise in a week. Review data from a food survey to answer a question on the consumption of either sugar or 5 a day portions and display the data in tables and bar charts. Use these to look for patterns and trends.
Year 3 - Count how many portions of fruit and vegetables their client has each day. Draw a bar graph.
Year 4 - Calculate number of spoonful’s of sugar are consumed each day and draw a graph with a suitable scale.

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