Science 3rd grade | UNIT 2: Looking after ourselves 2.2 A healthy diet
A healthy diet needs to be varied.
A balance of food from different groups gives your body the nutrition it needs.
This food triangle shows how much of each food group you should eat.
Fruit and vegetables keep us healthy. Sam will only eat bananas and carrots. He does not like any others.
Activity 2.2 (Tasting fruit and vegetables)
You will need: some fruit and vegetables you can taste disposable spoons
Talk about the taste of some fruit and vegetables.
Which ones will you like? Make a prediction then taste them.
Draw a table like this for your results.
| Result | Prediction | Fruit/Vegetable | |
| ?Did you like it | ?How did it taste | ?Will you like it | |
| yes | very sweet | no | melon |
Water is part of a healthy diet. Not drinking enough will make you tired and give you a headache.
This is called being dehydrated.
We can only live without water for a few days.
Questions
1) Why do we need to eat lots of fruit and vegetables?
2) What makes people dehydrated?