DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE 8

I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson, the learner’s should be able to:
a. Define digestive system.
b. Describe the four main function of the digestive system.
c. Identify the different parts and functions of the digestive system.
d. Label the different parts of digestive system.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

a. Topic: THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
b. Materials : power point printed pictures
Activity sheet video clip
c. References:
d. Time allotment:1 hour

III. PROCEDURE

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY LEARNER’S ACTIVITY

A. PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES
Good morning class.
Good morning ma’am.
Before we are going to start our class. Let’s have a prayer
first. Anyone who wants to lead the prayer?
(One student will volunteer)
Class secretary who is absent today?
( Class secretary will answer)
B. LESSON PROPER

1. ACTIVITY
How are you young learners?
(Student will answer.)

I can see on your face that you are excited to learn

something new today!

But before that, let us have our game for today.

This game is entitled “Guess the Word”

I have here a set of pictures and each picture has a jumbled

letter.

All you have to do is to arrange the jumbled letters to

come up with correct name of a picture.

If you know the answer, just your raise hand and tell me the
correct answer.

Did you get the instructions class? Yes ma’am.

That’s good! Are you ready? Yes ma’am.

That’s great! Let’s start.

 (The teacher will flash the set of pictures.)

Very good class! It is good to know that you are very

familiar with the different organs inside our body.

2. ANALYSIS
Based on our activity , what do you think is our lesson About the digestive system ma’am.
today?
Digestive system is the system
Very good! Our lesson for today is all about the digestive responsible for ingestion, digestion of
system. food and absorption of nutrients and
elimination of solid food waste.

What is your idea about digestive system?

Yes that’s right !The digestive system is responsible for the Ingestion, digestion, absorption and
processing and uptake of nutrition. Every cell in an organism elimination ma’am.
needs energy and an array of nutrients to remain alive.

There are four main functions of the digestive system. Can

you give these four?

Good job!

Let us discuss the four main functions of the digestive

system one by one. We put the foods into our mouth
ma’am.
Let us start by ingestion.

Class, what is the first thing that you do to eat your foods?

That’s correct! And that is what we called ingestion.

Ingestion is the process of taking food, drink, or another

substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
One of the functions of the mouth is to
As we can observe, the first organ involves in the digestion ingests food.
process is the mouth.

And what do you think is the function of the mouth? Another function of the mouth is
to chews and mixes food.

Good!

Another?

Awesome!

Mouth is the anterior opening and it is guarded by upper

and lower lips.
Digestion is the process of breaking
down food into components the body
It contains oral glands, tongue, and teeth.
can absorb.
 After taking the food through mouth, this is the time to
digestion occurs.
Yes ma’am.
Class, anyone who can tell me what is digestion?

The main function of the esophagus

is to propels food to stomach.
Once you begin swallowing, the process becomes
automatic. The food passes into the esophagus.
Can you see the esophagus in the picture?

Very good!

What do you think is the role of esophagus?

Yes ma’am.
Great!

The esophagus is a hollow, muscular tube that carries food One of the functions of stomach is
and liquid from your throat to your stomach. to mixes and churns food with
gastric juices.
Now, we are entering the stomach. Can you see the

stomach?

Good! Because it is responsible for killing

ingested microbes thereby inhibiting
What do you think is the function of stomach? infectious agents from reaching the
intestine.

Gastric acid, gastric juice, or stomach acid is a digestive

fluid formed within the stomach lining.

Why do you think we have these gastric juices? Yes ma’am.

The small intestine helps to further

Very good! digest food coming from the
stomach. This is where absorption
occurs.
After digesting the food, the stomach will send it to the
small intestine.
Can you see the small intestine?

What do you think is the function of the small intestine?

That’s a good answer!

The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive

juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and push the
mixture forward for further digestion. The walls of the
small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into
your bloodstream.
The pancreas and liver together with the gall bladder are
called the accessory organs of digestive system.
The remaining matter from food that
cannot be digested and absorbed
passes into the large intestine as waste.
The waste later passes out of the body
through the anus in the process of
elimination.
 Now, what do you think will happen to any remaining
matter from food that cannot be digested and absorbed? It is the storage of the waste products
from the digestion process.

Very detailed, good job!

Therefore, what is the function of the large intestine?

Correct!
Yes ma’am.
The large intestine is where food waste is formed into
stool/feces, stored, and finally excreted through the process
of elimination. The rectum is the lower end part of
the large intestine. This is where the
The body expels waste products from digestion through the stool/feces being stored.
rectum and anus.

Can you see the rectum? The function of the anus is to exit
fecal matter regulated by the by the
anal sphincter.
What do you think is the function of a rectum?

Very good!
None ma’am.
What about the anus?

Good job!

And That is the end of the digestive process.

Do have any questions? Very good!

Digestion begins in the mouth with
To further understand how digestive system works, let us chewing and ends in the small
watch this short video. intestine. As food passes through the
GI tract, it mixes with digestive juices,
(The teacher will play the video.) causing large molecules of food to
break down into smaller molecules.
3. ABSTRACTION

Based on the video presented, how digestive system works?

The organs involve in the digestive
system are mouth, esophagus,
stomach, small intestine, large
intestine, rectum and anus. We also
have accessory organs which are
liver, pancreas, and gall bladder.
Very well said!

Can you please enumerate the organs involve in

digestive system? None ma’am.
Very good!

Do you have any question?

4. APPLICATION
Direction: Label the different parts of the digestive
system and give the function of each.

IV. EVALUATION

Modified Matching Type: Label the organs of the digestive system. Then match the labeled
organ with its appropriate function. Write the letter of your answer on your paper

V. ASSIGNMENT
List at least five (5) diseases that result from nutrient deficiency