The Digestive System

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1. Watch the movie and answer the following questions

    a. How many organs are in the digestive system?

    b. What is the mesentery?

    c. How much saliva do we produce each day?

    d. What is peristalsis?

    e. How long does it take food to travel in the body from start to finish?

2. Interactive: digestive system from start to finish

    a. What is digestion?

    b. List the steps of digestion, step 1 to step 6.

    c. Play the digestion game. What was your score?

Interactive: Digestive Jigsaw

3. Interactive: The Digestive System

    a. List the order of the digestive system from left to right.

4. Watch the movie and answer the following questions

    a. Why do we eat?

    b. What are calories? 

    c. What are the six main steps of digestion? 

    d. What are enzymes? 

    e. What are the four main kinds of enzymes? 

    f. What is are polymers? 

    g. What are the four main kinds of monomers? 

    h. What is propulsion and what stage of digestion is it? 

    i. What is the mechanical breakdown in digestion? 

    j. What is the goal of the entire process? 

5. Activity: Learning about Calories 

    a. What is a calorie?

    b. Are calories bad for you?

    c. How can you find out how many calories are in food?

    d. How many calories do kids need?

6. Watch the movie and answer the following questions.

    a. Go to the BMR calculator and figure out your BMR. What is it?

    b. What is BMR?

    c. What is the Harris-Benedict formula?

    d. Follow the Harris-Benedict formula and figure out your BMR. What is your BMR?

    e. What physical activity do you do every day?

    f. What is the thermic effect of food?