Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify the various parts of the digestive system. Students will be
able to identify the function of the various parts of the digestive system.

Lesson
Introduction (5 minutes)
 Tell your students that today they will be learning about the digestive system.
 Explain that the digestive system consists of various parts that enables food to enter your
stomach, be absorbed and distributed, and be released from your body in the form of waste.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (40 minutes)

 Go over the Digestive System worksheet with your students.
 Explain each part using the blurb on the side of the worksheet and come up with some examples
to help clarify.
 An example for the esophagus: Explain to your students that the esophagus carries food from the
throat to the stomach. Tell your students that chewing something large makes you cough because
it gets stuck in your esophagus. Explain to your students that problems with the esophagus can
lead to heartburn, chest pain and difficulty swallowing.

Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (15 minutes)

 Ask your students to complete the What Is Digestion? worksheet with a partner.
 Go over the worksheet as a class.

Independent Working Time (25 minutes)

 Ask your students to complete the Human Digestion worksheet.
 Go over the worksheet with your students as a class.

Extend
Differentiation
 Enrichment: Ask your students to pick a part of the digestive system. Have them research the
structure and functions of the part. Ask your students to research the diseases associated with
damage to that part. Have your students to write a four paragraph essay explaining their research
findings.
 Support: Explain the process of what happens when you eat a piece of food using a specific
example. Give a piece of this food item to your students. Have them eat it while you explain
what is happening to the piece of food that they are eating. For example, tell your students that
their teeth is grinding the food in their mouths. After the food is broken down, it will go through
the esophagus. Point to the esophagus and ask your students if they feel the food there. Explain
that the food item they ate will go to the stomach after it leaves the esophagus. Explain to your
students that the food is broken down in the stomach and goes through the small intestine after it
leaves the stomach. Tell your students that the energy they get from the food is because the blood
picks it up from the small intestine and delivers it to the cells. Explain that the leftover food goes
to the large intestine and the large intestine enables it to the exit the body.

Review
Assessment (10 minutes)
 Ask your students to complete the What Happens When You Eat? worksheet.

Review and Closing (30 minutes)

 Divide your students into groups of four.
 Ask them to write a song or a poem that uses at least four parts of the digestive system as a
group.
 Ask each group to read their poem or sing their song out loud to the class.