Year-8 Biology Health and Lifestyle: Nutrition
In this Year-8 Biology Health and Lifestyle: Nutrition lesson, students will describe what goes into a healthy diet. They will explain what our bodies use each type of nutrient for, and list the different ways that we lose water from our bodies.
The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.
This lesson includes:
- Title slide with learning objectives
- A starter activity
- Group reading (literacy)
- Keywords task (vocabulary: nutrition, diet, carbohydrates, lipids and faeces)
- Handout sheet
- Task boxes
- Comprehension task
- Discussion exercise
- Answer slides included for self-assessment
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Next Lesson: Food Tests
In this lesson students will learn about how to test food for lipids, sugars, starch and protein.
Lessons for Key Stage 3, Year 8 Biology Topic 1 Health and Lifestyle
- Nutrients
- Food Tests
- Malnutrition
- The Digestive System
- Bacteria and Enzymes in Digestion
- Drugs
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Health End of Topic Revision Lesson























