Presenting the human digestive system
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can present and communicate information about the human digestive system.
Key learning points
- When humans eat food, it travels from the mouth to the toilet through the digestive system.
- It is important for scientists to communicate their findings to other people.
- A flowchart is a diagram, using boxes, lines and arrows, that shows the steps of a process from beginning to end.
- Scientists use scientific vocabulary in their explanations.
- Presentations can vary in format, including verbal and written explanations.
Keywords
Digestive system - The digestive system is all the organs in the body that break down and digest food. They are linked from the mouth to the anus.
Communicate - To communicate is to share or exchange information or ideas.
Flowchart - A flowchart is a diagram that shows the steps of a process from beginning to end.
Presentation - A presentation conveys information from a speaker to an audience.
Common misconception
Pupils may not realise there are many ways to present information as well as writing.
By sharing many ways that information is communicated throughout the lesson, pupils will have a variety of ways that they can choose to present what they have learned about the digestive system.
Teacher tip
Discuss lots of different ways that people share information such as teachers, politicians, authors, scientists, public announcers, and journalists and discuss how it depends on who their audience is.
Equipment
This will depend on how the pupils choose to present their information about the digestive system.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.We use our system to break down the food we eat to help us grow and stay healthy.
Q2.Which of these models would be useful to explain what happens to food when we eat it?
Q3.Match the parts of the mouth we use to eat a banana at the start of the digestive system.
Q4.Match the equipment used in the model of the digestive system, to the parts of the body.
Q5.Which of these are removed from waste food whilst in the small and large intestines during digestion?
Q6.What leaves the body through the anus at the end of the digestive system?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which system does food travel through when we eat?
Q2.Put the organs of the digestive system in the correct order to show how food travels from the mouth to the toilet.
Q3.Which of these things could a scientist use to present their findings to other people?
Q4.A is a diagram, using boxes, lines and arrows, that shows the steps of a process from beginning to end.
Q5.Scientists use scientific in their explanations.
Q6.Which of these words are considered as scientific vocabulary to describe the digestive system?
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