Curated OER
They Don't Just Eat Grass
Students explore and examine different types of feed used for livestock. They discuss types of feed, the need for energy and health, and create graphs of food compared to categories. Students organize data and complete worksheets on...
Curated OER
Adaptations
Eighth graders choose an animal and research its various adaptations using
their information, 8th graders create an informational tri-fold brochure or newsletter. They should include facts about the animal's adaptations as well as...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Digestive System
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the digestive system works.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology
Learn about the basic organization of the body's organs and the major organ system.
Inner Body
Innerbody: Digestive System
Take a look inside the human body's digestive system. This site features diagrams of the digestive tract and each part is accompanied by labels and descriptions. Just select an organ by moving the mouse over its image.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Digestive System
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human digestive system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Biology: Human Body Worksheets and Quizzes
Test your understanding of the human body and all of its complexities with these interactive worksheets, games and quizzes.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Digestive System
Make learning about the human digestive system fun with full-color diagrams. Follow the steps food takes through the body, and find out about the role this system plays in human survival.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource
What do you know about the different human body systems? This site features information on each of the different systems. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Digestive System
This StudyCard stack enables students to review the vocabulary encountered when studying the digestive system.
Other
Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: Human Body Systems
This source offers a great overview of the various systems of the human body. Each part is identified and described on this site by a veteran science professor. Many interactive quizzes are located here as well for students looking to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Digestive System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Nutrients in the foods you eat are needed by the cells of your body. How do the nutrients in foods get to your body cells? What organs and processes break down the...
Discovery Education
Your Digestive System
What do you know about your digestive system? This site feature factoids and more interesting information concerning this human body system. Trace the path of food from one end to the next.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.20 Digestive System Health
Understand digestive health of the human body.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Human Digestive System
Excellently detailed drawing (with labels) of the digestive system with an accompanying explanation of the digestive process. Includes a glossary and a blank label me print-out.
Gateway Community College
James Crimando: Digestive System
Learn about the anatomy of the human digestive system.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.18 Digestive System Enzymes
Learn how the enzymes in the digestive system help with the digestive process in the human body.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organ Systems
A video lesson explaining the structure and function of the human body's major organ systems. [5:58]
Curated OER
Kids Health: My Body
For elementary school children, this page presents information about lungs, muscles, digestive system, teeth, skin, tongue, hair, heart, and more.
Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Human Body
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses body parts and names the digestive system, respiratory system, and circulatory system. Students will also drag pictures to the right sense in the 5 senses. Activotes are utilized.
Other
Bio Anim
BioAnin presents 3-D labeled images of all of the major systems of the human body, for example, the digestive system and the endocrine system. The images are embedded in slideshows. The site also has interactive 3-D models that can be...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Digestion Simulation
To reinforce students' understanding of the human digestion process, the functions of several stomach and small intestine fluids are analyzed, and the concept of simulation is introduced through a short, introductory demonstration of how...