CELLS TO SYSTEMS: Digestive System

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Students to watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QYwscALNng. A 5 minute video with lots of great internal footage.

 

Students then to research the human digestive system and create a list of organs starting with the mouth and finishing with the anus. See attachment for a summary.

 

Students to compare and contrast the human digestive sytem with that of another animal. After researching the two digestive systems, each student to email findings to teacher (at least one paragraph with supporting images).

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Groups of students given a sheet of butchers paper and some plasticine. One student volunteers to lie down on the sheet and the group traces around their upper body. The group then uses the plasticine to make a digestive system to fit inside the body outline.

 

Each group then labels (name and function) the plasticine organs they have created by writing on the butcher's paper.

 

Groups then rotate and observe and add detail to other groups work.

 

Students to take a picture of their work as a record of their learning.