Human Body Systems Part 5 Digestive System Unit

This unit includes 6 lessons (50 minutes each) and 15 pages of printable work bundle. The Work Bundles have students fill-in critical notes, conduct activities such as digestive system simulation, answer questions, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A Quiz Game concludes for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, materials list, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

This PowerPoint begins asking the students to share a bit about what they ate for breakfast. A series of slides with visuals break down what nutrients are and the needs to living things to use energy. The nutrients needed for life are broken down one at a time with supportive information and visuals. Students then need to use this info to answer a question. The answer is revealed after. Digestion is then described (red slide notes = important and should be recorded in journal). Digestion is first described in the mouth, and chemical digestion is introduced. The chemical digestion process is described further here and a built-in activity has the students chew a piece of bread. Chemical digestion is discussed here again with reference to pytalin. A neat activity that discusses taste (part of nervous but covered here) has the students try placing different types of tastes on different parts of their tongue. Students touch Sour Patch Kids to the side of their tongue, cocoa powder to back of their tongue and saltwater to the tip. Mechanical digestion is then described and reference to form follows function. The combination of mechanical and chemical digestion is addressed through the entire digestive system. Chewing is addressed as an important part of the digestive process with an activity. Students get a graham cracker, zip-lock bag, and banana. Teacher sprays some clean water into the bag. Student mash the contents around and make an oatmeal type consistency. They then enjoy their healthy snack. A link to a virtual tour of the digestive system is provided. The swallowing reflex is addressed as student enjoy their snack and reference to the epiglottis is made. Peristalsis is mentioned. A demonstration is framed that can have the teacher swallow leaning over a table upside down. A link to a video of how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver is provided. A neat activity then has the students line up one across from the other with their hands forming a long chain. Students dip their hands in water and then get some dish soap (mucous) added. Teacher has students move 12 golf balls down the esophagus (hands that create tube). Students get a feel for how peristalsis works as they squeeze the golf balls along. A neat video link is provided that shows peristalsis in the antrum. The GI Tract is mentioned. A neat activity has a student try and fit the length of the GI tract into a baggy sweatshirt using a wacky noodle and garden hose. A reference to Form Follows Function is made. The stomach is described and reference to Pepsin. Heartburn is addressed and antacids. An activity with baking soda and vinegar is provided. Another activity describes the importance of chewing and shows how whole food does not digest as fast as chewed food. The duodenum is described and distribution of bile. The liver and gall bladder are described in the process. The small intestine is described and reference to form follows function made. A neat activity plays a game of tic-tac-toe vs. the teacher. Teacher minimizes out of the slideshow and paints squares with the toolbar. Students and teacher must read the boxes that are full of important info and then they earn that square. Four in a row wins. The Pancreas is described with visuals. The roles and functions of the liver are described. The gall bladder is described. Some activities describe the digestion process and time. Villi in the small intestine are show cased and another reference to form follows function is made. The large intestine is described. A link to video of the digestive system is provided. A really neat activity has the teacher minimize out of the slideshow. The teacher controls the movement but the students get out of their seats and pretend to grab a part of the digestive system and put the system together. The answers are revealed at the end. A really neat digestive system simulation is provided with visuals and instructions that has the class break-up into many small groups. Each group performs a task of the digestive system. Small bags of food are mechanically broken down and students add pretend chemicals along the way. The entire activity is described one step at at time. A series of hidden box games conclude this PowerPoint. Relevant pictures from the slideshow are hidden beneath shapes and boxes. Each slide removes some of these and the picture begins to form. Students take terms guessing the picture beneath. A 188 slide PowerPoint review game in included (part of the 680) and game template. Students play in small table groups to answer 20 questions. 20-25 are for fun bonus questions. The answers are presented after the game so students can self assess. This is a really neat PowerPoint that is as interactive as I could make it. Thanks for your interest and enjoy it as much as I have I have with my students.