As part of our learning in Skills Academy about Body Systems we have been looking at the Digestive System.

First of all food enters the mouth and the process begins.  Our teeth and saliva break down our food into smaller chunks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our bowl was our mouth and the rolling pin/wooden spoon was our teeth.  We added water for saliva and a drink.

Next this travels down the oesophagus into the stomach.

We used a funnel for the oesophagus and a food bag as our stomach.

We then had to churn the food over in our stomach, this can happen for 6-12 hours in our body.

Then it went on to our intestines.  This is where all the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and protein is absorbed into our bloodstream to travel around the body to where they are needed.

We used tights for the intestine and had to squeeze as much of the liquid out as wee could.  This is all the goodness our body absorbs from our food.

Finally, it was time to go to the toilet!!!!  Any waste products is excreted as faeces.

 

Primary 5 were quite surprised about how much our body absorbs back in from the food we eat, but thought this activity was pretty disgusting!!