Healthy Diet and Mineral Deficiencies (KS3 Science)

This lessons focus is on a healthy diet and deficiencies in certain minerals in line with the national curriculum for KS3 students. The lesson includes content on healthy diets, worksheets and several activities for students to complete throughout the lesson including whiteboard quizes and red amber green knowlegde checks, and retrieval activities .

These lessons are all visual lessons which support all learners to access the curriculum, pushing students as well as scaffolding where appropriate. This lesson is geared towards MPA-HPAs but is effectively scaffolded for LPA students too.

The lesson follows the national curriculum with Exam-style questions as assessment for learning throughout, as well as a number of other fun and engaging activities to support learner agency and exam paper accessibility.

These lessons are an effective and balanced mixture of teacher-led explanation, student AFL, student exam questions and pair discussions.