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What Happens When You Eat?

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Students explore digestion. In this Human Body lesson plan, students participate in six different activities pertaining to the Digestive System. Students gain understanding of digestion through experimentation and investigation. Students learn about the length of the digestive system, what the digestive process looks like, how different foods are digested, and how organs and other parts of the digestive system are important to digestion.

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the digestive system, human body systems, digestion

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digestive system, science
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Grade
8th - 10th
Subjects
Science
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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