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Eat, drink and grow

I can list the reasons why we need food and drink.

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Eat, drink and grow

I can list the reasons why we need food and drink.

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Key learning points

  1. We need food and drink to stay alive.
  2. We need food to grow, be active and maintain health.
  3. We need to drink to be healthy.

Keywords

  • Grow - to get older and bigger

  • Active - to do something, like playing, running or swimming

  • Healthy - being free from illness or injury

Common misconception

We need six - eight glasses of water a day.

We need six - eight drinks a day. Water is a great choice, but other drinks count too, such as milk and juice.


To help you plan your year 1 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Eat, drink and grow, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

When explaining that food and water are essential, you can use plants as an example. Plants need food and water to stay alive. You can also have different photographs of food and drinks to show pupils that there are many different types that we can have.
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4 Questions

Q1.
Match the food and drinks.
Correct Answer:Food,Banana, rice and cheese
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Banana, rice and cheese

Correct Answer:Drinks,Water, milk and juice
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Water, milk and juice

Q2.
True or false? We need to eat lots of fruit and vegetables.
Correct answer: True
False
Q3.
Which is the best drink to have?
Lemonade
Milkshake
Correct answer: Water
Q4.
We need food and drink to stay ...
young
Correct answer: healthy
pretty

4 Questions

Q1.
Why do we need food?
Correct answer: To grow
Correct answer: To be active
To be pretty
Correct answer: To be healthy
To be popular
Q2.
True or false? Only water counts as a drink.
True
Correct answer: False
Q3.
Match the foods that are similar.
Correct Answer:Apple and mango,Carrot and broccoli
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Carrot and broccoli

Correct Answer:Bread and potatoes,Rice and pasta
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Rice and pasta

Correct Answer:Milk,Cheese
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Cheese

Q4.
Which of these is the best choice for a drink?
Correct answer: water
lemonade
coffee