Animal Nutrition
Understand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food
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Animal Nutrition means knowing animals need the right nutrition and cannot make their own food. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes matching animal nutrition ideas, then checking one fresh fact.
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Plants and Animals
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Plants and Animals supports Animal Nutrition. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Public NASA Climate Kids page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
NASA Climate Kids. “Plants and Animals.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- Name the main nutrients in food (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, fibre) plus water, and explain that these are nutrients, not food groups
- Explain that animals get energy from food they eat, unlike plants which make their own
- Describe what happens with too much or too little of a nutrient (e.g. weak bones without enough calcium)
“Can your child explain why people need to eat different types of food — like fruit, vegetables and grains — to get nutrients such as protein and carbohydrates that keep them healthy?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Organisms & Life Processes
- Age range
- Ages 7–8
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