Date: 23-12-2021

Day: Thursday

Unit 2.1 - Transportation Systems In Living Things

Topics to be discussed today
● Introduction to the digestive system
● Organs of the digestive system
● Mechanism of digestion
● Video
● Wrap up exit ticket
THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

● Every cell in your body needs the energy to live and grow.

● This energy comes from food. However, food has to be broken down into a
form your cells can use.

● Breaking down food into simpler substances that your body can use is called
digestion.
How food reaches our cells??

Your digestive system starts working on food in your mouth.

1. When you bite into and chew food: • your teeth and tongue break the food into small pieces •
chemicals in your mouth break down some of the food into nutrients. A nutrient is a simple
form of food that your cells can use.

2. The process continues in other organs where food is broken down further.

3. The nutrients eventually pass into your blood. Blood carries them to your cells. The nutrients
give your cells energy and materials for growing.

COMPULSORY NOTEBOOKING:
Why is digestion an important life process?
 Reading Resource

Video shows the connection between the respiratory system,

circulatory system, and digestive system
 IA - Body Matters! Next class assessment (10 marks)
Students will construct a story about the journey of their favorite foods through their body;
starting from ingestion to elimination. They will create a flowchart to show the path that food
travels through the digestive system. On the flowchart, they will identify each stage and organ
involved.
Before we start the final summary or wrap up of the chapter….

How does studying interactions between and within systems help us to understand natural processes?

One big things I learnt about the natural process of …………………... is ……………………