Biology - Nutrition and digestion - Complete Science Key Stage 3 Unit

This pdf covers:
Nutrition and digestion
• the content of a healthy human diet: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water, and why each is needed
• calculations of energy requirements in a healthy daily diet
• the consequences of imbalances in the diet, including obesity, starvation and deficiency diseases
• the tissues and organs of the human digestive system, including adaptations to function and how the digestive system digests food (enzymes simply as biological catalysts)
• the importance of bacteria in the human digestive system
• plants making carbohydrates in their leaves by photosynthesis and gaining mineral nutrients and water from the soil via their roots

This booklet is designed to be printed off and given to students to work through - included is a second teacher copy with all the activities completed. By the end of the unit student will have a complete set of notes for the topic.