Year 8 Nutrition

James’ Mindmap using and Clipart.

Your first task today is to create either a (or paper) Mindmap or a (virtual or real) Poster reviewing what we learnt yesterday. The title is Nutrition and you need to include each of the five nutrients, with what they are made up of, why they are needed and at least five examples of each food type. Post your finished product on your blog and send the link to my gmail address. When you have finished check out this activity from BBC Bitesize: Nutrition.

Nutritional Information panels contain data about the amount of energy (measured in kilojoules), carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals in packaged food. They are compulsory in Australia and give consumers information about their the food they are purchasing and consuming. You will have a variety of packages to read, interpret and record the data in the Google Document at this link:

Nutritional Information of Food Products

This is an interesting interactive from PBS that demonstrates how different nutrients are used in your body.

Next week, while you are on camp, I would like you to keep a food diary, to work out how many kilojoules you consume each day. For each day, you need to record the quantity and type of each food you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. When you get back from Apollo Bay, we will do some food tests to investigate what types of nutrients are in different foods, so make sure you bring in a small sample of food to test. These are the tests we will be doing:

2.Iodine test for starch.
3.Benedict’s solution and heat for glucose (sugar).

Investigating Elements










