Digestive System Webquest
1. Open to locate overview of digestive system organs. Highlight each part to
see its location on the GI tract.
(http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/digest/digdiag.htm)
2. Open the Virtual Body Tour on the digestive system.
(http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp)
Click on English
Click on Digestive Tract
Begin by taking the Guided Tour
Click on the Zoom-In and move down through the system reading the
notes.
List the 10 organs discussed in class involved in the digestive system and
give a function of each.
Bonus: What is the appendix attached to?
Complete the Organize Organs activity.
3. Click on animation to observe movement of food from mouth toward
stomach. (http://www.innerbody.com/anim/mouth.html)
List the parts of the digestive system the pizza passes to move toward the
stomach.
4. Open the links to digestive system structures and move the mouse on the
black-yellow-red-green marks on the diagram to learn the parts.
Mouth (http://www.innerbody.com/image/mouth.html)
Click on dot that is the tongue and read the column on the left.
a)
What are the small nodules called on the surface of the
tongue that give it a rough texture?
b)
Finish the sentence “The tongue also aids in the formation of
sounds of speech and…”
Tongue taste Area (http://www.innerbody.com/image/nerv12.html)
c)
What part of the tongue detects bitter taste?
Stomach and Gall Bladder (http://www.innerbody.com/image/dige02.html)
Click on Stomach Overview at the top of the picture and read the
column on the left.
d)
There are 4 functions of the stomach outlined in the passage,
describe 2 of them.
e)
What is the process of digestion triggered by?
Click on gall bladder in the yellow column on the right
f)
What is the function of the gall bladder?
Pancreas Gland (http://www.innerbody.com/image/endo03.html)
Click on pancreas in the yellow column on the right
g)
Where is the pancreas located?
h)
Why is pancreatic cancer the worst prognosis among cancer?
Liver (http://www.innerbody.com/image/dige07.html)
i)
How many lobes make up the human liver?
Intestine (cut view) (http://www.innerbody.com/image/dige08.html)
Click Intestines (an overview) above the image
j)
What is the function of the villi in the small intestines?
Click on appendix in the yellow column on the right.
k) What is the function of the large intestine?
l) What is the function of the appendix?
**Extra**
6. Practice the quizzes from the following sites:
Human Body Adventure
(http://vilenski.org/science/humanbody/hb_html/selftest/digestive/)
Drag & Drop Quiz
(http://training.seer.cancer.gov/module_anatomy/unit10_5_quiz_dd_1.html)
General Histology WebAnatomy
(http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/webanatomy/)
7. Learn about belches and farts
(http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/yuckystuff/belch/js.index.html) ,
gurgling stomach noises
(http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/yuckystuff/gurgle/js.index.html),
vomit
(http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/yuckystuff/vomit/js.index.html)
and what makes up feces
(http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/yuckystuff/poop/js.index.html)