The Digestive System

Theme

I chose a Digestive System theme.  It is for 4th grade students.  The lesson plans on this webpage can be modified for older or younger students as well. 

Standards

• Students will make distinctions among predictions, observations, and conclusions.

• Students will use appropriate scientific equipment for investigations.

• Students will use proper safety procedures in all investigations.

• Students will describe how component parts make up the human body system. (example: digestive, skeletal, muscular systems)

Background Information

    Your Digestive System and How it Works http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/index.htm

    The Digestive System

http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/body/digestive.html

Lesson Plans

    Unit plan on the digestive system 

http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/299digest.pdf

    My Body: The Inside Story

http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/cur/mybody/digest_lessons.htm#teeth

    Yum, Yum, A Digestive Lesson

http://sciconn.mcb.arizona.edu/mcmush.html

    Healthy Colon with Good Digestion and Fiber

http://www.iit.edu/~smile/bi9602.html

Sites for students

    Kids Health Digestive System

http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/digest_noSW.html

    The Human Digestive System  http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/digest/digdiag.htm

    Your Digestive System

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html

    Digestion Movie

http://www.brainpop.com/health/digestive/digestion/

    The Digestion System

http://hes.ucf.k12.pa.us/gclaypo/digestive_system.html

    Journey into the Digestive System   

http://macxserver.asap.um.maine.edu:16080/~cathyl/webquestfolder/Task.html

    Digestive System-Intestinal Gas

http://www.biologyinmotion.com/minilec/gas.html

Graphics and Background

 http://macxserver.asap.um.maine.edu:16080/~cathyl/webquestfolder/Task.html

http://www.animationlibrary.com/a-l/?n=subcat.php3&id=87&title=Food%20and%20Drinks