What happens to the FOOD we eat?

This week, we explored the body system in charge of the food for our body - Digestive System. At the beginning of the unit, when the Grade 1s were asked to show what they know about the journey of food inside the body, they were all focused on the final output 😅 Then when we explored it this week, they looked into the tedious process of how the food we eat is digested carefully and rigidly to ensure that nutrients will be delivered to and absorbed by the body. First we looked at the parts of the digestive system - mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, pancreas and liver. They were able to arrange the parts correctly and also explain the steps the food undergoes from mouth to the large intestine. To be able to visualize how food looks like in every step, we did a simple experiment in the classroom. They showed how food looks like when it is in the mouth, in the stomach, in the small intestine and large intestine. We used bread, banana, water (as saliva) and acetic acid (vinegar) to represent stomach acids. During the process, various comments were heard: "Eew, gross!" "I don't like the smell. Can I use mask?" "It is so mushy!" It was really funny to hear them say those things. 'Just imagine, this is happening inside our body. Isn't it wonderful and awesome to know that this process is well-taken cared of by our digestive system? That we don't have to worry about the smell and the mushy-ness.