Digestion a demonstration
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This document describes a demonstration of the human digestive system by cutting food into pieces, adding saliva to begin breaking it down, pouring the mixture into a bag representing the stomach where muscles mix it with gastric juices, then squeezing the mixture through nylon to represent absorption in the small and large intestines before the remaining waste exits through a hole, simulating the entire digestion process.
Digestion a demonstration
- 1. DIGESTION. A DEMONSTRATION. • First , we cut _______ into small pieces. Hands add like _______. • Then, we pour a small amount of _________. This is like _______ and help teeth to change bread into a thin paste. • Then the food mixed with saliva passes through the ________. • We pour the mixture into a bag which is like our _______. We add some _______________. In the stomach food mixes with g __________ j________. • With your hands, you mix the food and juice. Stomach has muscles that help changing food into a paste. • Now the food is ready for the small __________.You pour the mixture into the nylon. The liquid leaking out is like nu________ that your body absorbs. • After that, you squeeze the food into a second nylon, this is the large intestine, we lay the nylon into a cloth and squeeze. The cloth absorbs water this is how your body absorbs w______ from your large _________. • Finally, the “substance” goes out through a hole in the nylon, this is like the ______.