2. Purpose: Break down nutrients and remove wastes
The Digestive System
Purpose: Break down nutrients and remove wastes
Section: The Digestive System
How does your cardiovascular system get the
nutrients that it carries to your cells? Describe as best you can the process that turns food into
nutrients that cells can use.

4. What are the parts of the digestive system
What are the parts of the digestive system? What are their roles/functions?
Series of Events:
Read Chapter
Complete timeline as you read Chapter 3.1
Structure/Function Activity:
a. trace the body
b. label the parts
c. identify the functions and why they are
important for the body to work.

5. Where does food go?

6. Saliva – What is it for?

8. Pharynx

9. Esophagus

10. The Stomach

13. Pancreas – (protects)
Secretes juices to help neutralize the acidic chyme

14. Liver
Makes bile to break up fat
Stores nutrients
Breaks down toxins

15. Gallbladder Stores the bile made from the liver
Squeezes bile into small intestine for fat breakdown.

16. Large Intestines – Adios
Absorbs
water

19. Are you funny?
Write a comic strip detailing the path a morsel of food takes through the digestive system.
Guidelines:
1. terms
2. functions
3. correct pathway
4. Use 1st person

20. Example:

21. Example 2:

22. The END

23. Digestion Class Activity Demonstration a. Break it Up! Saltine Lab
a. Chemical and Mechanical Digestion
Compare and Contrast