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What Is in Food: Understanding Nutrients

Animal and Human Nutrition: Why We Need Food

3rd Grade·Science·UK National Curriculum

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Describe nutrients as the useful substances found in food that living bodies need to stay alive and active.

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Animal and Human Nutrition: Why We Need Food

3rd Grade · Science · UK National Curriculum

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Explain why animals and humans need nutrition, how they obtain it by eating rather than making food, and identify the main reasons bodies require nutrients.

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science.ks2.y1.t2.s1National Curriculum (England) · Science · 3rd Grade

identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat

Open Global Standard:OGS.4.HSS.1