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Human Body Series - Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
With articles entitled, "What's Puke?" and "What is a Fart?" this digestive system lesson is sure to be a gas! Elementary anatomists do a belly dance to illustrate how food moves through the digestive system and then design a board game...
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Traveling Through the Digestive System

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn about how the food is broken down in our bodies and the job of each body part involved in our digestive system. The utilize the CD ROM game, "Body Works." This wonderful game takes pupils through the human body's...
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Ruminating on the Digestive System

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students compare the digestive systems of the buffalo and of the zebra, diagram their systems, and compare their lengths. In this digestive system lesson plan, students learn about their diets as well.
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Science Matters

Digestive System Simulation

For Teachers 5th
What do a sandwich bag and a mouth have in common? Your classes are about to find out in a hands-on lesson plan that has groups build models of the digestive system. Using a little imagination, learners use everyday materials to create a...
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Baylor College

Digestion

For Teachers K - 5th
Digestion is an amazing and complicated process that provides humans with the energy they need to survive. Lesson six in this series on the science of food uses sliced turkey and a meat tenderizer to demonstrate how enzymes help break...
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What Happens to the Food You Eat? The Digestive System

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars observe a video displaying body parts and functions of the digestive system. They make drawings of the digestive system from their observations. They act out a short play involving body parts.
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The Digestive Dance

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read food labels to compare healthy verses non healthy food and then use diagrams to create a poster of the digestive system. In this food lesson plan, students move the food down the digestive track along the digestive system.
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Experiment to Mimic the Digestive System

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Biology lab technicians take a cheese sandwich apart as a demonstration of digestion. They record appearance and mass both before and after the process, which mimics chewing, acid action, and churning. Learners write their own lab...
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Journey through the Digestive System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work in cooperative groups to design a theme park called Gastro World, based on the anatomy and physiology of the digestive system. They prepare a portfolio of the park's attractions and construct a model of it.
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The Real Deal on the Digestive System

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the human body by viewing video clips. In this digestive system lesson, 6th graders discuss what they think happens when they swallow food. Students view a Brain Pop clip demonstrating the digestion of food and...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Digestive System

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders simulate how the digestive system works. For this hands-on simulation, 4th graders complete six group activities that help students visualize how our body breaks down food into nutrients.
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The Digestive System

For Teachers 5th Standards
Discover how the human body's digestive system works with a brain and stomach friendly activity. Scholars taste test a variety of foods to find out how they behave once in the mouth. Class members then play a game called Move That...
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Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze how the digestive system works by taking the food we eat and breaking it down for our bodies to use for various reasons. They list the major components of the digestive system and draw a diagram. They explain how...
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Experiment to Mimic the Digestive System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners demonstrate how digestion occurs. In this biology instructional activity, students compare the mass of sandwiches before and after addition of HCl. They collect data and formulate conclusion based on experimental results.
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Digestion Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils study the human digestion system and the functions of the stomach and small intestines.  For this digestion lesson students view a demonstration on the process. 
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Digestion & Nutrition: a Case Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore digestion/nutrition and utilize scientific investigation skills. They complete meal logs for several days and graph their results. After analyzing their data, they write formal lab reports.
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Human Anatomy -- How Do We Move?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students create a model of the digestive system. In this human anatomy lesson the students examine features of the digestive system. The students perform an experiment.
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Digestive System Journey

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore what happens to the food they eat as it passes through their body. They demonstrate their understanding of the digestive system functions by choosing to create a poster, build a model, produce a multimedia presentation,...
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Digestion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders answer the question what happens to the food you eat? They complete a worksheet about the food you eat. They discuss the different types of teeth that we have. Students complete digestion poster in which they color and...
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The Digestive System: An Overview

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students label main structures of the digestive system, describe each structure's function, and describe sequence of events involved in digestion.
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Science Matters

Digestion: Chew on That

For Teachers 5th
When your mom tells you to chew your food, you really should listen! A instructional activity on the digestive system examines the first step of digestion that happens in the mouth. Learners check crackers and use iodine to highlight...
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Oh That Gross Digestive System!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students get an understanding of the main components of the digestive system and how the system takes the food we eat and converts it into energy.
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Curated OER

Enzymes and Catalysts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the functioning of the digestive system and the specific enzymes present. They observe the action of amylase on starch to identify characteristics of enzymes then perform an experiment on the effects of temperature on...
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Nutrition 1: Food and the Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to how the digestive system works in their body. In groups, they discover they need energy and water to live a healthy life. They discover how the body repairs itself and how it grows. They also examine how...

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