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 at a molecular level to prepare for an in-class discussion.

Concepts

digestion, the digestive system, babies, glucose

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Graph the number of children diagnosed as lactose intolerant by age

Classroom Considerations

• Offers four download options in various sizes and formats
• Relies on prior knowledge of human digestion and the need for sugars in the body

Pros

• Provides a transcript to help English learners
• Requires very little class time to share

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4