Digestion and Nutrition

If you plan on watching "Nutrition," episode 62 of the popularly utilized series, Bill Nye the Science Guy, use this quiz as either a watching companion (having students perhaps complete during planned pauses in the show) or an...

Debunk the theory that a soda-and-candy diet is a nutritionally sound concept! Learners first read 2 paragraphs of background information covering essential nutrients, digestion, and homeostasis. Then, they use the information they...

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...

Students discover how nutrition impacts major body systems. In this nutrition activity, students brainstorm how they think the digestive system works and discuss how essential nutrients impact major body systems. They work in groups to...

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.

Milk meets every single nutritional need for a baby in the first six months of life. Observe how an infant's small intestine breaks milk lactose down into a usable form of nutrition. With the help of an animation, viewers see the process...

Young scholars investigate the digestive system. For this human biology lesson, students read an article about the digestive system and go onto a suggested website to review what they have learned. Young scholars are asked questions as...

Some foods we eat are not meant to be broken down by our digestive systems, but instead by our gut. But how can we control what our gut breaks down? The answer is simple: our diet.

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...

Students discover why the human body needs food in order to survive. In groups, they analyze advertising for the foods they eat the most and try to identify the nutritional value of them as well. They complete a worksheet showing them...