Name: MOVILLA, JAYBE M.

Date: JULY 15, 2021

Course : MED-Biology Topic: Digestive System
Presenter: Angelyn A. Calixtro Professor: Dr. Esmie T. Agpalo

Digestive System Model

Follow these steps:
1. Place the banana and crackers inside the ziplock bag/clear plastic bag (“eat”).
Slowly add A LITTLE BIT of water (“saliva”)
2. LET ALL THE AIR OUT and zip the bag shut. Then smash all the ingredients
with your hands until no more clumps are present (“chew”) your mix.
3. Squeeze the food into one end of the bag – it went from the mouth via the
esophagus to the stomach. Add some acid to the mix (lemon/kalamansi/ vinegar)
and continue mashing it.
4. From the stomach, the snack needs to pass into the tights (small intestine). Tilt
the bag up slightly and cut a small hole in one corner of the bag. (The corner
where you’re not tipping the mix towards!) Squeeze the contents of the bag into
the cut-off tights while holding everything above the trey/bowl.
5. Squeeze the food through the tights. Keep squeezing to let the liquid run out.
(Note that the water is actually absorbed in the large intestines!)
6. Eventually, cut the toe off the tights and squeeze the waste food out into the
plastic/paper cup (“large intestine”). Make sure to cut off a SMALL (1 cm radius)
hole on the bottom of the cup (“anus”).
7. Finally, push the waste food through the bottom of the cup onto the tray (to
model going to the toilet).
Upload photos before, during and after making the digestive system model.
Before During After
Label and complete:

MOUTH

ESOPHAGUS

STOMACH

SMALL INTESTINE

LARGE INTESTINE

Structure (Organ) Function How was the function modeled

in the simulation?
Mouth To chew the food Crushing of the zip lock with
cracker and banana inside
Esophagus Passage of food Foods coming out from the zip
lock while squeezing.
Stomach For food Storage Zip lock

Stomach acid Acts as an enzyme which
helps in softening the food
to become chyme.
Small intestine Absorption of nutrients with
the aid of villi
Nutrients These are vitamin and
minerals which will be
distributed into our body
Large intestine Storage of food cast or
feces
Anus Outlet of feces from the
large intestine
Vinegar added to the cracker and
banana which serves as an
enzyme
Holes of the stocking which
serves as the passageway of the
liquid while squeezing it.
The semi liquid which was
collected from the chyme from the
zip lock.
The last part of the stockings
where cast of crackers were
stored.
Opening of the cut part of the zip
lock/ plastic bottle
How does the digestive system break down food to nourish the body?
Explain your answer.

Digestion is important for breaking down food into nutrients, which the body uses for
energy, growth, and cell repair. Food and drink must be changed into smaller molecules
of nutrients before the blood absorbs them and carries them to cells throughout the
body. The process starts in the mouth where foods are mechanically broken down. It
then goes through the esophagus until it reaches the stomach where there’s an enzyme
helping the food to be totally breaks down into chyme (a semi fluid which contains
nutrient of food) that goes into the small intestine ready to be absorbed by the villi inside
the small intestine. After all the nutrients are absorbed by the villi then transport those
nutrients into our cells in every part of the body. Water is reabsorbed in the large
intestine and unabsorbed and unneeded materials/ cast that are left are being store in
the large intestine which will soon come out as feces into the anus