Lesson 3: The Digestive System
Unit 3: Human Body Systems
Learning Goals for this Lesson:
Students Will Know:
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The parts of the digestive system
The two types of digestion
Where nutrients are absorbed
Standards: SC.6.L.14.5
Students Will Be Able To:
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Relate the parts of the digestive systems to
their roles in the human body.
Lesson Essential Question:
How do your digestive and excretory systems work?
Activating Strategy:
Key Vocabulary to Preview and Vocabulary Strategy:
Digestive system, enzyme, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, pancreas, and liver
Lesson Instruction:
Learning Activity 1:
Students will read pages 198-201 while taking Cornell
notes
Graphic Organizer:
Students will be given a chart that contains pictures of
the organs of the digestive system. Students will fill in
the chart with the name of the organ and its function.
Assessment Prompt for LA 1:
Students will be asked to discuss the answer to the
following question with their partner: what is the
function of the digestive system?
Learning Activity 2:
Assignment:
Class discussion on the notes taken by the students.
They will mark their notes to ensure that they have all
of the appropriate information.
Students will partake in a lab which will have them
create a model of the stomach in a Ziploc to see how
the stomach breaks down the food.
Assessment Prompt for LA 2:
Students will be asked to discuss the answer to the
following question with their partner: what are the
main organs of the digestive system?
Class demonstration of mechanical digestion with
sugar cubes and water.
Learning Activity 3:
Students will take notes off of a power point on the
excretory system.
Assessment Prompt for LA 3:
Students will partake in a mini lab to observe sweat.
They will be asked to record what they see is
happening and why it’s happening.
Summarizing Strategy:
Students will work in groups of 5 to make postcards pretending they are a piece of food traveling through the
digestive system. They will have to discuss what it’s like for the food to be in the mouth, esophagus, stomach,
small intestine, and large intestine. They will have to include vocabulary words and other important
information. They will then present the postcards to the class.
Lesson 3: The Excretory System
Unit 3: Human Body Systems
Learning Goals for this Lesson:
Students Will Know:
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Standards: SC.6.L.14.5
Students Will Be Able To:
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The functions of the excretory system
The organs that make up the urinary system
How the urinary system maintains
homeostasis
Relate the parts of the excretory systems to
their roles in the human body.
Lesson Essential Question:
How do your digestive and excretory systems work?
Activating Strategy:
Brian Pop video on the urinary system. Students will create a word splash.
Key Vocabulary to Preview and Vocabulary Strategy:
Excretory system, kidney, nephrons, urine, urethra, ureter
Lesson Instruction:
Learning Activity 1:
Graphic Organizer:
Students will take notes off of a power point that
discuses the excretory system
Frayer Model for Excretory system which will include:
characteristics, function, illustration, and example
Assessment Prompt for LA 1:
Students will be asked to discuss the answer to the
following questions with their partner: 1. What is the
function of the excretory system and 2. Through what
organs does urine pass, from the time it is made until
it leaves the body?
Learning Activity 2:
Assignment:
Students will take notes off a power point that
discusses how kidneys maintain homeostasis by
Students will be given a reading passage that
summarizes the information learned. They will read
working with the endocrine system
the article, mark the text, and answer the questions
that accompany the text.
Assessment Prompt for LA 2:
Students will work in collaborative pairs to answer
questions on how hormone secretions affect how
much the kidneys filter water and salt.
Learning Activity 3:
Assessment Prompt for LA 3:
Summarizing Strategy:
Students will create a Frayer model to summarize the information learned about the excretory system. (See
Graphic Organizer section of lesson plan for more information).