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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Overview of the Digestive System

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the structure and function of the human digestive system, the accessory digestive organs, the tissue layers of the alimentary canal, the contributions of the enteric and autonomic nervous systems to digestive system...
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Your Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
A complete student lesson on the human digestive system. Students can listen to the text being read, watch a video on the subject, and view an interactive diagram of the digestive system. When finished, learners take an online quiz.
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Digestive System

For Students 9th - 10th
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human digestive system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Human Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Excellently detailed drawing (with labels) of the digestive system with an accompanying explanation of the digestive process. Includes a glossary and a blank label me print-out.
Interactive
Inner Body

Innerbody: Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a look inside the human body's digestive system. This site features diagrams of the digestive tract and each part is accompanied by labels and descriptions. Just select an organ by moving the mouse over its image.
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National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health: Your Digestive System and How It Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the digestive system, why digestion is important, how food is digested, and how the process is controlled. Includes a diagram of the body parts involved.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Digestive System

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explains the how the digestive system works, considering each step as food moves from the mouth, through the esophagus, into the stomach, and then into the small and large intestines. Select digestive disorders are also...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy & Physiology: Digestion Sys Absorption, Elimination

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text with printable notes, interactive assignments, and video clips, students discover the structure and function of the human digestive system.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The digestive system is amazing: it takes the foods we eat and breaks them into smaller components that our body can use for energy, cell repair and growth. This lesson introduces learners to the main parts of the digestive system and...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Digestion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The DiscoverySchool.com offers a lesson plan for teachers about the digestive system, including an excellent vocabulary list.
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Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: How Does My Digestive System Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article serves an as introdution to the digestive system.
Website
Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the basic organization of the body's organs and the major organ system.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: The Digestive System

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn more about the science of the human digestive system. How we turn food into energy for our bodies.
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Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Digestive System

For Students K - 1st
Interesting illustrated resource discusses the parts of the digestive system, the stages of digestion, and more fun facts.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Digestion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan students learn about digestion and proteins by observing the action of meat tenderizer on luncheon meat. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
Website
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Obesity: The Fate of Fat

For Students 9th - 10th
See how dietary fat from food we eat travels through the digestive system, and gets packaged and stored in the human body. [2:07]
Website
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Eating and Elimination!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a look at the digestive system functions and what results when a body is not getting enough of a certain nutrient.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever eaten ice cream then started feeling really yucky? Kids with lactose intolerance have trouble digesting a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy foods. Learn what this condition is and how you can learn to live with it.
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Earth Life

Earth Life: Mammals: Diet and Digestion

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the diet and digestion in all sorts of mammals, including herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. Read about different kinds of animals and their different dietary preferences.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: I Love Ice Cream, but It Doesn't Love Me: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 6th - 8th
Pizza, milk shakes, and ice cream sundaes all contain dairy products, therefore they cannot be eaten by the majority of people around the world. Dairy products contain the sugar molecule lactose, and the majority of people on the planet...
Interactive
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Villi Absorption

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation explores the relationship between the amount of surface area in the small intestine and the rate at which it absorbs food particles into the circulatory system.
Activity
Other

Dr. Saul: Biology in Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site provides animations and activities in several areas of physiology. The images are simple, but clear. The accompanying text provides a good description of the process being shown.
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National Institutes of Health

Niddk: Your Kidneys and How They Work

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a detailed description of both structure and function of the kidneys, the role they play in the urinary system, as well as provides information about kidney disease.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Small and Large Intestines

For Students 9th - 10th
With this module, students will be able to identify three main adaptations of the small intestine's wall that increase its absorptive capacity. Students will also trace the pathway of food waste from its point of entry into the large...

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