Michelle Colyn
Digestion
The kids learn all about digestion.
This activity includes each kid getting a couple of crackers and mushing it together with some water. Then they would put their "bolus" into a baggy where mountain dew was added. The water represented saliva, the baggy represented our stomach, the mountain dew represented the acid in our stomach. We then would pour that mixture into a nylon where all the kids could squeeze the nylon which at that point represented the small intestine. Squeezing the nylon represented our small intestine obsorbing all the nutrients. We then would squeeze the digested food through the large intestine (or the bottom half of the nylon), then we snipped at end of the nlyon and squeezed the digested food out through the bottom and I'm sure you can guess what that was called!
Digestion
The kids learn all about digestion.
This activity includes each kid getting a couple of crackers and mushing it together with some water. Then they would put their "bolus" into a baggy where mountain dew was added. The water represented saliva, the baggy represented our stomach, the mountain dew represented the acid in our stomach. We then would pour that mixture into a nylon where all the kids could squeeze the nylon which at that point represented the small intestine. Squeezing the nylon represented our small intestine obsorbing all the nutrients. We then would squeeze the digested food through the large intestine (or the bottom half of the nylon), then we snipped at end of the nlyon and squeezed the digested food out through the bottom and I'm sure you can guess what that was called!