Digestive System Unit

Description

Teach your students about the human body’s digestive system using these printable, digital, and Nearpod activities. This digestive system unit includes teacher instructions, teacher presentation, student note sheets, digestive tract reading worksheets, a hands-on demonstration, vocabulary terms, graphic organizers, and review activities to ensure student comprehension of how the human body digests food.

Students will learn:

• The function and purpose of the digestive system in the human body

• The major organs involved in digestion, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine

• The difference between mechanical and chemical digestion through hands-on demonstrations and lab activities

• The roles of essential nutrients—vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins—in maintaining health and aiding digestion

• How food travels and is processed through the digestive tract in a specific sequence

• Key vocabulary related to digestion and nutrition using anchor charts, visuals, and vocabulary organizers

• How to interpret and summarize informational texts with guided note-taking and comprehension questions

• To apply knowledge through engaging review activities such as flip books, color-by-number, task cards, and graphic organizers

• To demonstrate mastery of the digestive system through formative and summative assessments

This unit on digestion includes:

• Teacher instructions to access the Google Slides links to digital components so that you can easily distribute to your students through Google Classroom or Schoology
• Choice homework activity and rubric
• Anchor chart posters to hang in your classroom or hand out to your students

Posters include:

• Mechanical digestion
• Chemical digestion
• Nutrients
• Esophagus
• Stomach
• Small intestine
• Large intestine
• Vocabulary sheet for the same terms as the anchor chart posters
• 2 page science article on the 5 groups of nutrients
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Fats
  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins

• Meal plan activity
• Teacher presentation on the digestive system that consists of 10 Google Slides
• 4 pages of student fill in notes, label diagram, and comprehension questions
• 4 page digestive system text with an additional page of comprehension questions (includes a printable, digital, and access to my Nearpod presentation). The science text covers:
  • function
  • parts; mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
  • how it operates

• Digital versions of the nutrition and digestive system readings
• Types of digestion graphic organizer
• Organ sequencing chart
• 2 digestive system graphic organizers
• Hands on demonstration and lab activity to understand mechanical and chemical digestion
• Flip book – this activity is great for review. Students can look back at their notes to fill in the function, types of digestion, parts, and how it operates. Comes with a student instruction sheet and rubric(printable and Google Drive compatible option)
• Task cards with a student answer sheet
• Color by number review activity
• Review sheet
• Assessment
• Answer keys are included

How to use this unit in your classroom:

• Classroom chart: Set the stage for learning about digestion and the digestive tract by creating a science bulletin board with anchor charts.
• Teacher presentation: Teach students about the parts, functions, and sequence of digestion with the presentation.
• Student Fill in Notes: Students will complete the note sheets and keep them in their binders during your unit on the digestive system.
• Science texts: Perfect for sub plans, fast finishers, homework, absent students, etc. These texts give more in-depth information about this human body system. Have students practice highlighting important information, annotating text, and improving their comprehension.
• Graphic organizers: Great way for students to summarize learning, allows the teacher to assess learning, and can be used as reference materials!
• Demonstration: Helps students understand how mechanical digestion breaks down food.
• Review activities: The review sheet, flipbook, task cards, and color by number activity help reinforce important concepts related to the digestive system.
• Assessment: Tests student knowledge of the digestive system.

Feedback from teachers:

• • My students liked that the information was gone over many different ways. It wasn’t all just reading and answering questions. They loved the coloring activity.
  • My students and I really enjoyed the Lab activity. They had so much fun mimicking the stomach during digestion. I truly enjoyed doing this with my students
  • Students thoroughly enjoyed the google slides aspect of reading and answering questions based on the text. Thanks again.
  • Perfect resource for teaching about the digestive system! A variety of resources were included.

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