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Curated OER

Kids Health: Your Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about the amazing process of digestion through the digestive system. View great drawings about other parts of the body that aid in this process. Available in Spanish.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Human Digestive System

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Nutrients in the foods you eat are needed by the cells of your body. How do the nutrients in foods get to your body cells? What organs and processes break down the...
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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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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Digestive System of a Frog

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the anatomy of a frog's digestive system and how the stages in the process of digestion. A comparison is made with the human digestive system.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Digestion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Digestion is the process of breaking down food into smaller units. This is done by special chemicals in the body. Proteins are important for muscles and cell growth and repair. Learners learn about digestion and proteins by observing the...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State University: Absorption of Monosaccharides

For Students 9th - 10th
Page focuses on the processes involved in the generation of monosaccharides and their absorption into the digestive tract. Image shows the transport of glucose across the intestinal epithelium.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Animals: Human Digestive System: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an overview that explains the processes of digestion in humans. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Digestive System."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Animals: Human Digestive System: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an overview that explains the processes of digestion in humans. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Digestive System."
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Digestion Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
To reinforce middle schoolers' understanding of the human digestion process, the functions of several stomach and small intestine fluids are analyzed, and the concept of simulation is introduced through a short, introductory...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Chemical Digestion/absorption: A Closer Look

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module, find out the locations and primary secretions involved in the chemical digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.
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Discovery Education

Your Digestive System

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about your digestive system? This site feature factoids and more interesting information concerning this human body system. Trace the path of food from one end to the next.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Gastrointestinal Tract

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides excellent resources and information on the gastrointestinal or digestive tract, including images and hyperlinked terms.
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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.
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John Wiley & Sons

Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry: Restriction Digestion/gel Electrophoresis

For Students 9th - 10th
Tutorial explains the processes of restriction digestion and gel electrophoresis and provides an interactive exercise to further your understanding.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Digestive System Organs

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online lesson students will identify the organs and functions of the digestive system.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Digest Your Food!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In a multi-week experiment, student teams gather biogas data from the mini-anaerobic digesters that they build to break down different types of food waste with microbes. They compare methane gas production from decomposing hot dogs,...
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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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Read Works

Read Works: Where Does Food Go?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the process of food digestion. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Regents of the University of Michigan

Animal Diversity Web: Introduction to Teeth

For Students 9th - 10th
The Animal Diversity Web offers a very good description of teeth in the digestive process of mammals. Covers the variety of teeth and links to discussions on a variety of teeth issues.
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Energy Sources: Biomass: Manure for Fuel

For Students 9th - 10th
Texas is famous for its cattle ranches, and all those cattle produce a lot of manure. Texans are working on projects to harness the energy in manure in various ways. Dry manure has been and continues to be burned for heating and cooking....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Digestive System Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this instructional activity students adventure through the digestive system via the Internet. They then use their knowledge of the digestive system to create an original story about their favorite food's adventure down the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Trip Along the Alimentary Canal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will prepare a digital presentation on the digestive organs, accessory structures, processes, digestive chemicals, and nutrients. This is a part of the unit on digestion and metabolism, and is performed at the beginning of the...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Carbohydrate Metabolism

For Students 9th - 10th
Students understand the process of carbohydrate metabolism, and the chemical processes involved in this aspect of digestion.
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Other

Bioscience.com: Ontogeny Egf Receptors in the Human Gut.

For Students 9th - 10th
The site gives a description of the chemical process of digestion which occurs in the human stomach. This site also discusses the gene and protein structure, mechanism of activation, and general distribution of the EGF Receptors in the...