Digestive System

Describe the function of the digestive system accurately.

​

Compare and contrast someone who has a food intolerance to someone who does not by:​

 

Evaluate a case study about someone who has a food intolerance and design an alternative meal plan.

Describe the function of the digestive system.

​

Compare and contrast someone who has a food intolerance and someone who does not.

 

Evaluate how a food intolerance may affect the digestive system and how can we change this?

​What are we doing today?

​Learning Objectives

​What will you need to achieve by the end of the lesson?

​Intolerance = difficulty digesting certain foods

​

Bloating = gas in your gut

​

Diarrhoea = passing looser or more frequent stools​

​

Esophagus​ = muscular tube that passes food and liquid from your throat to your stomach

​

​

​Key Vocabulary Today:

​The

Digestive

System​

Describe the function of the digestive system, what does it do?

​

Challenge:

Can you add any of the vocabulary we just discussed?​

​

LMS ACTIVITY.

​3 mins

Hamdan has been experiencing pain after eating food. He has realised when he eats certain foods like bread, cheese and eggs the pain gets worse.

​

He notices he gets stomach pain, bloating and headaches. Then sometimes he gets diarrhoea.

​

What disease could Hamdan have?​

​

Meet Hamdan

Hamdan has a food intolerance​

Meet Hamdan

The most common food intolerances are:

​

• Dairy

• Egg

• Gluten​

Food Intolerance

How do you think people feel?​ (Signs and Symptoms​)

10% of people in the UAE have a food intolerance

Food Intolerance

Hamdan needs your help!

​

He needs you to explain his problem and figure out a solution!

HELP HAMDAN

On your table you have some materials which can help Hamdan.​

​

• Crackers, Water in a cup, A Plastic bag, Some stones.​

​

In your​ groups you will need to create an experiment which will explain to Hamdan what a food intolerance is.

Experiment Time

In your groups decide what role to be:

​Leader - keep everyone on track responsible for completing task.

​

Timekeeper - make sure the group is completing the task in a good time and not wasting time.

​

Scribe – will write the group’s answers to the questions.

​

Artist- Will physically do the experiment

​

 If there is less than 4 people, the leader will also be the timekeeper. If there are more than 4 people, there will be 2 Artists.

Experiment Time

​1) Put the crackers into your bag.

2) Add the water.

3) Squeeze the bag.

​

What happens?

​

4) Add the stones, what has happened now.​

​

Remember, you need to try and answer​ on your sheet.

​

The first steps

​10 mins

Feedback about experience.

​Swap you answer papers with another group.

​

Use a rubric created to mark the other groups work.

​

Feeback

Try an complete as many questions as you can.

​

If you are unsure on a question, try!​

Plenary -LMS ACTIVITY.