What is the picture

about?

What are the organs

you see in the
picture?

What is/ are the

functions of these
organs?

Are these organs

play a great role to
our daily life?
Exploration:
• Group Work: Pupils will group into three.
Group 1- Identify Me!
 Identify the organs of digestion being described. The pupils select
the answer from the list.

Group 2- Describe Me!

• Describe the organs of digestion by writing the function of each
organ.

Group 3- Complete Me!

• Complete the blank by filling the right words that explain the function
of the digestive system
Process by which food is eaten or broken down to its simplest components

CARBOHYDRATES → Glucose
PROTEINS→ Amino Acids
1.Mechanical Digestion FATS AND OIL→ Fatty Acids
 The breaking down of foods
into chewable pieces
2. Chemical Digestion Alimentary Canal-digestive
 breakdown of food in the tract
mouth, stomach and
intestines through the use
of acids and enzymes
Receives the food you eat

Inside the mouth:

TONGUE- moves the food
TEETH- bite, cut and chew the food
SALIVA- sticky fluid with colorless and
watery appearance
 a muscular tube that in
humans is about nine
inches (23 centimeters)
long and passes from the
pharynx down the neck
to the stomach

PERISTALSIS- wavelike
movement of
the muscle
 The stomach is a hollow
muscular, J-shaped organ in
the abdomen
 secretes acid and enzymes
that digest food
 the inside has small folds
called rugae

SPHINCTER- smooth circular muscles at the upper and lower

ends of stomach
 a narrow corrugated tube
that is about 7 meters and
2.5 cm. in diameter long
 The inner lining of the
small intestine is folded
into tiny fingerlike
projections called villi
 Digests food which can be
absorbed by the body THREE PARTS OF SMALL INTESTINE
1. Duodenum 3. Ileum
2. Jejunum
 About 1.5 meters long and 5
centimeters in diameter
 Absorbs water from
undigested food and hold the
undigested food for a while
and then excrete it as feces

RECTUM - end of the large

intestine
ANUS – exit of feces
Evaluation
Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. When is the body able to use the food it takes?
a. When it reaches the stomach
b. When it reaches the intestine
c. When it reaches the flood
d. When it reaches the cells

2. It is the organ where digestion starts?

a. Mouth c. stomach
b. Small intestine d. Large intestine
3. Where does final digestion occur?
a. Mouth c. stomach
b. Large intestine d. Small intestine

4. In which part of the digestive system are proteins digested

completely?
a. Stomach c. Small intestine
b. Large intestine d. Esophagus

5. Which moves the food from esophagus to the stomach?

a. Swallowing c. peristalsis
b. Fluid d. digestion