What this lesson teaches
Human digestive system.
Science in Action
Digestive System Journey
Build a simple model of the digestive system!
Duration35 min
Age GroupAges 9–11
DifficultyIntermediate
SubjectScience
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The learning connection
Tracing a continuous pathway through the body creates a spatial-sequential mental model of digestion that isolated organ-by-organ study never produces. Students who can visualise the journey understand both function and malfunction (disease) far more readily.
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1. Tube is food pipe. 2. Bag is stomach. 3. Sock is intestine. 4. Label each. 5. Show food journey.