Unit 1 Keeping

Humans and animals

healthy

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A balanced diet
The healthy eating dinner plate shows different types of food
groups and how much of each food group we should eat
every day.
a. What is a balanced diet?
b. Where do these foods belong on the healthy eating dinner
plate?

c. Have you eaten some foods from each food group today?

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Healthy eating traffic lights
Look at this picture.

a. How often should you eat red foods?

Why?
b. How often should you eat yellow
foods?
c. What are the health benefits of
yellow foods?
d. How can red foods be damaging to
your health?
e. How often should you eat green
foods?
f. What are the health benefits of green
foods?

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Active and inactive
a. Which pictures show the boy being active?
b. Which pictures show the boy being
inactive?
c. Put the activities in order from most active
to least active.

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Heartbeat and exercise
Sami made this table to show how his heartbeat changed after doing each activity. He found that the activities
with the most movement made his heart beat faster.
a. Do you think his results are accurate
(correct)for each activity? Why?
b. Which activities would make Sami feel hot
and make his heart beat faster?
c. Which activities would have little effect on
his heartbeat?
d. How many hearts would you predict for
each activity? Why?

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Being healthy and happy
Put these things into the sorting hoops below.

Sleeping for 10 hours

Eating high fat foods

every day
Avoiding sugary things

Eating fresh fruit and

drinking water daily

Playing an active game

every day
Playing computer games
3 hours a day
More healthy Less healthy
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Being healthy and happy
Put these things into the sorting hoops below.

Sleeping for 10 hours

Eating high fat foods
Avoiding sugary things every day

Eating fresh fruit and

drinking water daily Playing computer games
3 hours a day
Playing an active game
every day

More healthy Less healthy

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