Purpose:To help you to learn, understand, and know the purpose of the different parts of the digestive system.
Overview: Create a PowerPoint presentation that has a slide for the different parts of the digestive system. Your slides should explain briefly the digestion process from beginning to end, explaining the parts of the body the food travels through and the purpose of each parts. Starting with the mouth and ending with the rectum. Use the Digestive System websiteto help you to define the different parts.
Instructions:
Open the Microsoft PowerPoint application on your computer. Start a new project.
Create a title page including the Title of your presentation and your name.
Add a new slide by clicking the new slide button in the toolbar.
Add a new a slide for each part of the digestive system that you define type in and explain its purpose in the text box.
Be sure to include a slide for the mouth, esophagus, gallbladder, stomach, liver, pancreas, large intestine, small intestine, and the anus and explain what their purpose during digestion is.
You can change the layout of your slide by clicking different layouts on the formatting palette. If you do not see the formatting palette, go up to the top tool bar, click view, and make sure that Formatting Palette is checked. The formatting palette is also where you can change the font style, size, and color.
Be creative with your slideshow by adding clipart. One way to add clipart is to go to top toolbar again, go to insert, then to picture, then click clip art. There are many pictures here or you can copy and paste other photos you find.
If you want to change your slide design, go back to the formatting palette, then choose slide design. There are many designs that you can choose from. You can apply the design to all of your slides or have different designs for each one.
If you want to have your slide show have cool effects when you change slides, go to slide transitions, located next to slide design.
Day 2: Interview With A Digestive System Podcast
Purpose: A group of 4 students will create a podcast today. A podcast is an audio file, usually in a mp3 format and accessible from the Web. Each of you will play different parts in the podcast. Your group should pretend like you are in an interview. There will be one interviewer interviewing different parts of the digestive system. The other three members of the group will act to be the different parts of the system. This will help to familiarize you with the different parts.
Instructions:
You will need to create a script, basically writing down some questions that you should ask the different parts of the digestive system.
For example:
Interviewer: Mr. Stomach, how long are you really?
Mr. Stomach: Well, if you took me out from underneath the stomach, and stretched me out along the street, i'd be about 22 feet long.
Interviewer: Wow! Thats like 6.7 meters, or 22 notebooks all lined up!
You can ask whatever questions you like. Just have each person be a different part of the digestive system and make up questions for them to answer about themselves and their functions. You can choose which part you want to have.
Your interview does not have to be very long, at least one question and response from each member.
Remember to introduce and conclude your interview.
Now to create the podcast:
Go towww.gcast.com . This is where you will easily create your podcast. You will first need to create an account. Then follow the instructions for calling to record your podcast. Once you have entered all of the information, you can call the number and follow the phone instructions. Make sure you carefully follow all of the instructions. When recording your podcast all together, use a phone that has speaker phone so you are able to all be heard. Speak in a professional tone and speak loudly and clearly. All four members should participate in the podcast.
Day 3 Create a flyer showing your lunch menu and different nutrients you get from each. Objective:
Create a Flyer in Microsoft Word that describes different foods that you each for lunch. Format it so it is like a menu. Use graphics (pictures) of the foods and show what your body takes away from the foods.
Instructions:
Open up your Microsoft Word software. Begin a new document.
Make a title called "What's in What Your Eating" centered in the middle of the page. You can increase your font size, style, and center it in all on your formatting palette found under the toolbar, under view, and click formatting palette.
Under your title, type your name.
Write a short paraghraph explaining the importance of the importance of the nutrients that your body needs to function.
Make a menu of foods that are common in the lunchroom. Ex: Chicken, Milk, Juice, Pasta, brocolli.
You can use the Learning Site to help you see the foods and what your body gets out of them.
Show what the food contains. Ex:
MILK : Contains proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals.
If you want to make different columns for your food side and beverage side, go to format, columns, and select the different columns that you want.
Be creative, using graphics. You can use more than just the foods listed. You can easily copy and paste your different pictures onto your document. You can resize your image by clicking on the different sides of the square outlining your image.
Day 4 Create a Nutrient Crossword Puzzle
Objective: You are going to create a crossword puzzle that gives the player clues to a nutrient and the answer of the nutrient is in the puzzle. Once you create your puzzle you will print it and switch puzzles with a friend.
Instructions:
First go to Nutrient Web Site and read to learn more about nutrients. You can also google nutrients and see more examples.
Now, lets go to Puzzle Maker and follow the steps.
Add a title to your puzzle related to nutrients.
In Step 4, you will add a nutrient on the first line, then a single space then type the clue.
Ex:
Water It is the most important nutrient. It helps to regulate your body temperature. It carries nutrients to the cells in your body.
Then continue to the next line and write about another nutrient.
Once you have finished writing all of your clues and answers, click the Create My Puzzle! button.
Print out your puzzle by selecting file print.
Switch puzzles with a friend and complete.
Start to work on project for Day 5, by taking pictures of the foods you eat with a digital camera. Take pictures of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 5 Create A Food Album
Objective: Track your food intake for an entire day. You can use a digital camera and take pictures of the different foods that you put into your body. You are going to organize those foods into breakfast lunch and dinner. You are going to create a Food Album in iPhoto. In the picture description you can write about what your body keeps from the foods. You also can write about how the food is digested.
Instructions:
Upload your pictures to the computer using your usb cord and opening iPhoto application.
Once in iPhoto, go to File, then choose new album, then select book.
Name it YOUR NAME's Food Album.
On the cover of the book, put a picture of you eating your food and title it.
On the description page write why you are making this book, and about the importance of the digestive system.
Use the arrows on the bottom right to go to different pages of the book.
Pull your pictures down from the top bar and place them into the different boxes.
Choose the layout button at the bottom of the screen for different layouts. Choose the layouts with descriptions so you can write below the pictures.
You can also change the backgrounds by using the background button.
Explore the program, and be as creative as you like.
Be sure to include descriptions. Explain how the food is digested in your body. You can also get other pictures off the internet to help your story.
This album should show your understanding of the digestive system and what we have learned this week.
Once you have finished, print out your album and staple the pages together.
Students Activities Page
Day 1:
Parts of the Digestive System PowerPoint
Purpose: To help you to learn, understand, and know the purpose of the different parts of the digestive system.
Overview: Create a PowerPoint presentation that has a slide for the different parts of the digestive system. Your slides should explain briefly the digestion process from beginning to end, explaining the parts of the body the food travels through and the purpose of each parts. Starting with the mouth and ending with the rectum.
Use the Digestive System website to help you to define the different parts.
Instructions:
Day 2:
Interview With A Digestive System Podcast
Purpose: A group of 4 students will create a podcast today. A podcast is an audio file, usually in a mp3 format and accessible from the Web. Each of you will play different parts in the podcast. Your group should pretend like you are in an interview. There will be one interviewer interviewing different parts of the digestive system. The other three members of the group will act to be the different parts of the system. This will help to familiarize you with the different parts.
Instructions:
You will need to create a script, basically writing down some questions that you should ask the different parts of the digestive system.
For example:
Interviewer: Mr. Stomach, how long are you really?
Mr. Stomach: Well, if you took me out from underneath the stomach, and stretched me out along the street, i'd be about 22 feet long.
Interviewer: Wow! Thats like 6.7 meters, or 22 notebooks all lined up!
You can ask whatever questions you like. Just have each person be a different part of the digestive system and make up questions for them to answer about themselves and their functions. You can choose which part you want to have.
Your interview does not have to be very long, at least one question and response from each member.
Remember to introduce and conclude your interview.
Now to create the podcast:
Go to www.gcast.com . This is where you will easily create your podcast. You will first need to create an account. Then follow the instructions for calling to record your podcast. Once you have entered all of the information, you can call the number and follow the phone instructions. Make sure you carefully follow all of the instructions. When recording your podcast all together, use a phone that has speaker phone so you are able to all be heard. Speak in a professional tone and speak loudly and clearly. All four members should participate in the podcast.
Day 3
Create a flyer showing your lunch menu and different nutrients you get from each.
Objective:
Create a Flyer in Microsoft Word that describes different foods that you each for lunch. Format it so it is like a menu. Use graphics (pictures) of the foods and show what your body takes away from the foods.
Instructions:
MILK : Contains proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals.
Day 4
Create a Nutrient Crossword Puzzle
Objective: You are going to create a crossword puzzle that gives the player clues to a nutrient and the answer of the nutrient is in the puzzle. Once you create your puzzle you will print it and switch puzzles with a friend.
Instructions:
- First go to Nutrient Web Site and read to learn more about nutrients. You can also google nutrients and see more examples.
- Now, lets go to Puzzle Maker and follow the steps.
- Add a title to your puzzle related to nutrients.
- In Step 4, you will add a nutrient on the first line, then a single space then type the clue.
Ex:Water It is the most important nutrient. It helps to regulate your body temperature. It carries nutrients to the cells in your body.
Start to work on project for Day 5, by taking pictures of the foods you eat with a digital camera. Take pictures of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 5
Create A Food Album
Objective: Track your food intake for an entire day. You can use a digital camera and take pictures of the different foods that you put into your body. You are going to organize those foods into breakfast lunch and dinner. You are going to create a Food Album in iPhoto. In the picture description you can write about what your body keeps from the foods. You also can write about how the food is digested.
Instructions: