In Science, we have been learning about our amazing bodies. We had no idea, so much was happening inside us when we eat something. Mr Shaw helped us to learn about our digestive system through this experiment.
First we demonstrated how food passes down our throat from our mouth.
Mr Shaw explained that our stomach contains acid which helps break down our food.
We used oatmeal and water to demonstrate how our stomach breaks down the food we eat. It looked disgusting!
After the oatmeal was ‘digested’ in our stomach it needed to go into our intestines. We used a pair of tights to demonstrate how our intestines squeeze the nutrients we need out of the digested food.
We all have a large and small intestine. The large intestine is 4m long while the small intestine is 7m long.
Finally the nutrients our intestines squeezed out is sent into our liver. The whole process takes between 16 – 21 hours.
We are looking forward to learn about how our brain works.
