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Year 9 · Science

Nutrition And Digestion

Year 9 learners practise how plants make food and healthy diet.

The activities include Describe How Plants Make Carbohydrates, Explain How Plants Make Carbohydrates, Explain the Importance of a Healthy Diet, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Describe How Plants Make Carbohydrates
  • Explain How Plants Make Carbohydrates
  • Explain the Importance of a Healthy Diet
  • Explore Fitness and Energy Levels
  • Interpret Chemical Tests on Food
  • Understand How To Test For Carbohydrates in Plants

Checked learning resources

  • Photosynthesis

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    You can identify the reactants and products of photosynthesis and write a word summary of the process. This KS3 science video lesson directly teaches the concepts and scientific action required by "Describe How Plants Ma

  • Balanced diet

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    I can describe the components of a healthy diet and how they contribute to good health. This KS3 science video lesson directly teaches the concepts and scientific action required by "Explain the Importance of a Healthy D

  • Food tests: practical

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    I can carry out tests for nutrients and some of the substances they are broken down into. This KS3 science video lesson directly teaches the concepts and scientific action required by "Interpret Chemical Tests on Food".

  • Nutrition, digestion and excretion - KS3 Biology

    BBC Bitesize · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS3 science teaching, examples and practice checks for Nutrition And Digestion; selected for the concepts in "Describe How Plants Make Carbohydrates" after reviewing the full worksheet context.

  • Plant nutrition and photosynthesis: lesson sequence

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    This KS3 Oak unit provides sequenced teaching on Plant nutrition and photosynthesis. It includes the lesson objective closest to the full worksheet context: Photosynthesis.

  • Diet and exercise: lesson sequence

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    This KS3 Oak unit provides sequenced teaching on Diet and exercise. It includes the lesson objective closest to the full worksheet context: Balanced diet.

  • Human digestive system: lesson sequence

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    This KS3 Oak unit provides sequenced teaching on Human digestive system. It includes the lesson objective closest to the full worksheet context: Food tests: practical.

  • Plant nutrition and photosynthesis

    Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 9 Science resource matched to how plants make food and healthy diet.