You are What You Eat! (Digestive System Activities)

OK-

how about I FINALLY get back to our

Human Body Science activities?

MAN- working full time time is seriously interrupting my

blog scheduling... ;0)

Back in February,

the kiddos and I delved into learning about

the Digestive System one week.

Here are the activities we used

to learn more about our

"internal pluming"...

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We began our study by watching...

...THIS three part video about the Digestive System.

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After reading more about the small and large intestines,

using our

AIMS From Head to Toe study book...

...we used yarn to measure the length

of a person's intestines.

Thick yarn for the large intestines,

normal sized yarn for the small...

According to our reading and measurements,

the total length of my middle child's intestines

was *almost" as long as the length of our house!

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A grossly informative experiment we did

in relation to the digestion of food in the human body

is called

Digestion Details...

Using simple household ingredients...

...we created a Bolus.

(chewed soft food moistened by saliva that forms a ball)

(Yeah- GROSS...)

We added more ingredients to see what the food

would look like and feel like

as it passes through the stomach...

Here is a pic of our food before the

digestive system and after the digestive system...

YUCK!!!

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Check out other lessons we completed

to learn more about the Human Body by clicking

HERE...

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Linking up with

Science Sunday...