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The Digestive System
Discover how the human body's digestive system works with a brain and stomach friendly activity. Scholars taste test a variety of foods to find out how they behave once in the mouth. Class members then play a game called Move That...
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Horse Science ~ Digestive Physiology of the Horse
Everything you ever wanted to know about the digestive system of a horse is presented in this set of slides. Basic anatomy, factors that affect digestion, and the rate of the passage of food are all included. This may be useful to your...
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Experiment to Mimic the Digestive System
What happens to the food that we eat? Middle-school life science learners delve into the digestive process by completing this laboratory activity. They cut a cheese sandwich into smaller parts to represent chewing, smash it to mimic...
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Digestive System
Students analyze how the digestive system works by taking the food we eat and breaking it down for our bodies to use for various reasons. They list the major components of the digestive system and draw a diagram. They explain how...
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Body Systems
The human body is an amazing thing! Explore the body with your high school class as they investigate each system in detail. They learn components of each organ system and disease processes that can negatively affect general health and...
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AP: Chapter 41: Animal Nutrition
Ms. Foglia has created another comprehensive biology learning exercise that you can use with your advanced learners. The topic is animal nutrition and the digestive system. Questions address nutrients and deficiencies, stages of food...
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Digestion and Nutrition
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...
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Experiment to Mimic the Digestive System
Learners demonstrate how digestion occurs. In this biology lesson, students compare the mass of sandwiches before and after addition of HCl. They collect data and formulate conclusion based on experimental results.
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Digestion Simulation
Students study the human digestion system and the functions of the stomach and small intestines. For this digestion lesson students view a demonstration on the process.
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Digestion & Nutrition: a Case Study
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.
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Digestive Process Begins
Take your class on a journey through the digestive track with this resource. The physical and chemical processes of digestion are detailed, along with the names of various structures and substances involved, but the processes of the...
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The Digestive System
In this biology worksheet, learners find the words that are related to the digestive system and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Human Anatomy -- How Do We Move?
Students create a model of the digestive system. In this human anatomy lesson the students examine features of the digestive system. The students perform an experiment.
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Digestive System Journey
Students explore what happens to the food they eat as it passes through their body. They demonstrate their understanding of the digestive system functions by choosing to create a poster, build a model, produce a multimedia presentation,...
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Digestion
Fourth graders answer the question what happens to the food you eat? They complete a worksheet about the food you eat. They discuss the different types of teeth that we have. Students complete digestion poster in which they color and...
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The Digestive System: An Overview
Students label main structures of the digestive system, describe each structure's function, and describe sequence of events involved in digestion.
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Digestion: Chew on That
When your mom tells you to chew your food, you really should listen! A activity on the digestive system examines the first step of digestion that happens in the mouth. Learners check crackers and use iodine to highlight changes in the...
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Digestion and Nutrition
In this digestion activity, students will review a diagram showing the parts of the digestive system and the length of the intestines. Students will complete 3 short answer questions based on the diagram.
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Circulatory Systems
Excellent diagrams, labels and summaries make this resource be valuable to your students throughout the topic of circulation. All types of circulation vessels are explained, their structure and function is detailed, and the overall...
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Oh That Gross Digestive System!
Students get an understanding of the main components of the digestive system and how the system takes the food we eat and converts it into energy.
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Questions regarding the Digestive System
In this science related worksheet, students locate and answer thirty three multiple choice questions regarding the digestive system in humans.
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Label the Digestive System
In this biology worksheet, learners label a colored diagram of the human digestive system. They write the 9 words from the word bank on the lines associated with items such as the gall bladder, pancreas, large and small intestine.
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Digestive System Quiz
In this digestive system quiz worksheet, students complete an on-line quiz, clicking on questions and matching answers, scoring 1 point for each correct answer. A printed version is available.
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Enzymes and Catalysts
Learners discuss the functioning of the digestive system and the specific enzymes present. They observe the action of amylase on starch to identify characteristics of enzymes then perform an experiment on the effects of temperature on...