O digestive system is responsible for processing the foods received during feeding and cause them to be broken down into smaller particles where the nutrients are available for absorption.
In this class about digestion and absorption of nutrients Students will be able to improve their knowledge of the human digestive system and understand how nutrient absorption works.
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THEME: nutrient absorption
SUGGESTED TIME: 1 class
GOALS:
MATERIAL REQUIRED:
DEVELOPMENT:
Introduce the class theme to the students and explain that you will analyze the transformations of food in the body after ingestion.
Briefly talk about the path of food: snack, ingestion, digestion, feces.
Ask students why the stool does not look like the food that was eaten at meals. Listen carefully to the answers and allow students to discuss and point out theories about the topic.
Remind students of our body's digestive process—they may have had this class before.
Explain that digestion serves to break food down into much smaller particles so that the proteins, amino acids It is vitamins are available for the body to absorb.
Show them pictures that illustrate the path that food takes in our body until it reaches the small intestine.
You can use a digestive system mind map for this moment in class:
Explain the importance of the small intestine and show students that it is in this organ that the absorption of available nutrients occurs after the digestive process.
End the lesson by answering a list of digestive system exercises.
ASSESSMENT:
The evaluation of this class can be done through participation in the classroom and correction of the list of exercises.
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