Learning about Digestion with friends…

I have been so busy with some family things going on that I am finally getting a chance to get caught up on my blog posts… Here’s a post from last month’s Anatomy group.

In our Anatomy group we did some fun stuff with digestion.

We started out with some experiments.

First we did an experiment using spit and checking for amylase.

Then we looked at some different foods and checked for fat using brown paper and a light source. Some of the ones we tested were bread, macaroni, bacon, and cheese.

Then we took different colored yarn, cut in the actual lengths of parts of the digestive system, starting with the esophagus and working down to the rectum. The kids were divided up into teams of boys and girls and had to compete to see who could place the correct color string in the correct place the quickest.

  

Then we stretched all the yarn out to see how many kids it would take to go the entire length of the digestive tract. It took all six kids lined up (head to toe) down the hallway and there was still a little string left.

        

Then we were off to the classroom for some crafting… we created the GI tract our of playdough… FUN STUFF!!!

                  

Then we played a game where the kids had to sit back to back and be the intestine and “squeeze” their “food” down the tract…

 

And we finished off with a fun game where each child has a job to do in the GI tract and the others had to guess what they were doing and what part they were…finishing off with eating some M&Ms…

We are loving this study!!