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Food groups, teeth & keeping healthy

Connect food groups, vitamins, water, tooth care, sleep and exercise to a healthy human body. Review suitability for your learners before teaching.

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Worksheet StudioPractice pack · Ages 4-6

Food groups, teeth & keeping healthy

Take your time. Show your thinking.

1. Why do children and teenagers need a good night’s sleep every night: the brain consolidates learning and memory while the body repairs tissues and releases growth hormone, or sleep wastes energy?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
2. Which nutrient—found in fish, eggs, beans, lentils, chicken and nuts—helps our bodies build and repair muscles and grow: protein or water?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
3. Which bony structure of the skeleton surrounds and protects your brain: the skull (cranium) or the ribcage?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
4. What is the first set of 20 temporary teeth that young children grow before their adult teeth come through: milk teeth (baby/deciduous teeth) or wisdom teeth?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
5. What is the hardest substance in the human body, which forms the protective outer coating of each tooth: tooth enamel or fingernails?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
6. Which vitamin found in oranges, lemons, guavas, berries and peppers helps wounds heal and keeps gums healthy: Vitamin C or iron?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
7. What happens to your heart rate and breathing rate when you run, swim or play sport: both your heart rate and breathing rate speed up to deliver more oxygen and glucose to working muscles, or they slow down to zero?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
8. What should you do when you sneeze or cough to stop germs spreading through the air to classmates: cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, then wash your hands, or sneeze into the fan?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
9. Why should we brush our teeth for two minutes twice a day with fluoride toothpaste and limit sugary snacks: bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid that causes tooth decay (cavities), or brushing makes teeth softer?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
10. Why do our bodies need to eat a balanced diet of different foods and drink plenty of water every day: for energy, growth and staying healthy, or to change our eye colour?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
11. Why does the body sweat when you exercise on a warm day: as sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries away heat energy and cools the body down, or sweat warms the skin?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
12. Which vitamin can our skin make when we spend a safe, short time in morning sunlight, helping our bones absorb calcium: Vitamin D or Vitamin B?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth

12 questions · Seed 44 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification

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Worksheet StudioAnswer key · Ages 4-6

Food groups, teeth & keeping healthy

Answers and reasoning. Review before teaching.

1. Why do children and teenagers need a good night’s sleep every night: the brain consolidates learning and memory while the body repairs tissues and releases growth hormone, or sleep wastes energy?
The brain consolidates learning and memory while the body repairs tissues and releases growth hormone
Adequate sleep is essential for concentration, immune health and physical growth.
2. Which nutrient—found in fish, eggs, beans, lentils, chicken and nuts—helps our bodies build and repair muscles and grow: protein or water?
Protein
Proteins supply amino acids needed to grow and repair body tissues.
3. Which bony structure of the skeleton surrounds and protects your brain: the skull (cranium) or the ribcage?
Skull (cranium)
The skull forms a strong protective helmet around the brain.
4. What is the first set of 20 temporary teeth that young children grow before their adult teeth come through: milk teeth (baby/deciduous teeth) or wisdom teeth?
Milk teeth (baby/deciduous teeth)
Children’s milk teeth gradually fall out from around age 6 to make room for 32 permanent adult teeth.
5. What is the hardest substance in the human body, which forms the protective outer coating of each tooth: tooth enamel or fingernails?
Tooth enamel
Enamel is a mineralised layer covering the crown of each tooth.
6. Which vitamin found in oranges, lemons, guavas, berries and peppers helps wounds heal and keeps gums healthy: Vitamin C or iron?
Vitamin C
Sailors historically ate citrus fruit rich in Vitamin C to prevent scurvy.
7. What happens to your heart rate and breathing rate when you run, swim or play sport: both your heart rate and breathing rate speed up to deliver more oxygen and glucose to working muscles, or they slow down to zero?
Both your heart rate and breathing rate speed up to deliver more oxygen and glucose to working muscles
Active muscles respire faster and need a faster supply of oxygenated blood.
8. What should you do when you sneeze or cough to stop germs spreading through the air to classmates: cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, then wash your hands, or sneeze into the fan?
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, then wash your hands
Catching droplets in a tissue or elbow prevents airborne transmission of cold and flu viruses.
9. Why should we brush our teeth for two minutes twice a day with fluoride toothpaste and limit sugary snacks: bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid that causes tooth decay (cavities), or brushing makes teeth softer?
Bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid that causes tooth decay (cavities)
Brushing removes plaque and protects the hard outer enamel of the teeth.
10. Why do our bodies need to eat a balanced diet of different foods and drink plenty of water every day: for energy, growth and staying healthy, or to change our eye colour?
For energy, growth and staying healthy
Food supplies fuel for movement and warmth plus the building blocks for growing bones, muscles and organs.
11. Why does the body sweat when you exercise on a warm day: as sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries away heat energy and cools the body down, or sweat warms the skin?
As sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries away heat energy and cools the body down
Evaporative cooling helps keep core body temperature near 37 °C.
12. Which vitamin can our skin make when we spend a safe, short time in morning sunlight, helping our bones absorb calcium: Vitamin D or Vitamin B?
Vitamin D
Vitamin D (also found in oily fish and eggs) works with calcium for healthy bone growth.

12 questions · Seed 44 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification

Worksheet StudioPractice pack · Ages 4-6

Food groups, teeth & keeping healthy

Take your time. Show your thinking.

1. Why do children and teenagers need a good night’s sleep every night: the brain consolidates learning and memory while the body repairs tissues and releases growth hormone, or sleep wastes energy?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
2. Which nutrient—found in fish, eggs, beans, lentils, chicken and nuts—helps our bodies build and repair muscles and grow: protein or water?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
3. Which bony structure of the skeleton surrounds and protects your brain: the skull (cranium) or the ribcage?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
4. What is the first set of 20 temporary teeth that young children grow before their adult teeth come through: milk teeth (baby/deciduous teeth) or wisdom teeth?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
5. What is the hardest substance in the human body, which forms the protective outer coating of each tooth: tooth enamel or fingernails?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
6. Which vitamin found in oranges, lemons, guavas, berries and peppers helps wounds heal and keeps gums healthy: Vitamin C or iron?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
7. What happens to your heart rate and breathing rate when you run, swim or play sport: both your heart rate and breathing rate speed up to deliver more oxygen and glucose to working muscles, or they slow down to zero?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
8. What should you do when you sneeze or cough to stop germs spreading through the air to classmates: cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, then wash your hands, or sneeze into the fan?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
9. Why should we brush our teeth for two minutes twice a day with fluoride toothpaste and limit sugary snacks: bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid that causes tooth decay (cavities), or brushing makes teeth softer?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
10. Why do our bodies need to eat a balanced diet of different foods and drink plenty of water every day: for energy, growth and staying healthy, or to change our eye colour?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
11. Why does the body sweat when you exercise on a warm day: as sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries away heat energy and cools the body down, or sweat warms the skin?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth
12. Which vitamin can our skin make when we spend a safe, short time in morning sunlight, helping our bones absorb calcium: Vitamin D or Vitamin B?
Balanced Food Groups & Teeth

12 questions · Seed 44 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification

Worksheet StudioAnswer key · Ages 4-6

Food groups, teeth & keeping healthy

Answers and reasoning. Review before teaching.

1. Why do children and teenagers need a good night’s sleep every night: the brain consolidates learning and memory while the body repairs tissues and releases growth hormone, or sleep wastes energy?
The brain consolidates learning and memory while the body repairs tissues and releases growth hormone
Adequate sleep is essential for concentration, immune health and physical growth.
2. Which nutrient—found in fish, eggs, beans, lentils, chicken and nuts—helps our bodies build and repair muscles and grow: protein or water?
Protein
Proteins supply amino acids needed to grow and repair body tissues.
3. Which bony structure of the skeleton surrounds and protects your brain: the skull (cranium) or the ribcage?
Skull (cranium)
The skull forms a strong protective helmet around the brain.
4. What is the first set of 20 temporary teeth that young children grow before their adult teeth come through: milk teeth (baby/deciduous teeth) or wisdom teeth?
Milk teeth (baby/deciduous teeth)
Children’s milk teeth gradually fall out from around age 6 to make room for 32 permanent adult teeth.
5. What is the hardest substance in the human body, which forms the protective outer coating of each tooth: tooth enamel or fingernails?
Tooth enamel
Enamel is a mineralised layer covering the crown of each tooth.
6. Which vitamin found in oranges, lemons, guavas, berries and peppers helps wounds heal and keeps gums healthy: Vitamin C or iron?
Vitamin C
Sailors historically ate citrus fruit rich in Vitamin C to prevent scurvy.
7. What happens to your heart rate and breathing rate when you run, swim or play sport: both your heart rate and breathing rate speed up to deliver more oxygen and glucose to working muscles, or they slow down to zero?
Both your heart rate and breathing rate speed up to deliver more oxygen and glucose to working muscles
Active muscles respire faster and need a faster supply of oxygenated blood.
8. What should you do when you sneeze or cough to stop germs spreading through the air to classmates: cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, then wash your hands, or sneeze into the fan?
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, then wash your hands
Catching droplets in a tissue or elbow prevents airborne transmission of cold and flu viruses.
9. Why should we brush our teeth for two minutes twice a day with fluoride toothpaste and limit sugary snacks: bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid that causes tooth decay (cavities), or brushing makes teeth softer?
Bacteria in plaque feed on sugar and make acid that causes tooth decay (cavities)
Brushing removes plaque and protects the hard outer enamel of the teeth.
10. Why do our bodies need to eat a balanced diet of different foods and drink plenty of water every day: for energy, growth and staying healthy, or to change our eye colour?
For energy, growth and staying healthy
Food supplies fuel for movement and warmth plus the building blocks for growing bones, muscles and organs.
11. Why does the body sweat when you exercise on a warm day: as sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries away heat energy and cools the body down, or sweat warms the skin?
As sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries away heat energy and cools the body down
Evaporative cooling helps keep core body temperature near 37 °C.
12. Which vitamin can our skin make when we spend a safe, short time in morning sunlight, helping our bones absorb calcium: Vitamin D or Vitamin B?
Vitamin D
Vitamin D (also found in oily fish and eggs) works with calcium for healthy bone growth.

12 questions · Seed 44 · Age guidance, not curriculum certification