Human Body Research Station

Nutrition & Digestion

??? No more construction until after lunch, of course........ we will have more energy to work after our lunch break...... but check below to see if our lunch is a healthy one....

Nutrition

Before you visit the sites below, please fill out your food diary on worksheet 4.1 (Your teacher has this paper for you). Then visit the fun links below to learn about your body's nutritional needs....

(used pending permission from the "Food and Nutrition Information Center".)

Food Guide Pyramid ---
Climb the Food Pyramid with this Game from the National Pork Board-
And Another one from the Dairy Council
Fast Food Facts Finder -- find out the fat content in foods you eat at restuarants.
Dole brings us a fun filled site about eating 5 a Day of fruits and vegetables.
And for details on what nutrients you get from each group, check out the Think Quest Junior site.

After you visit these sites, please fill out your food diary again. Your teacher may ask you to graph the results using a double bar graph. Then please visit our voting booth and enter the totals from your food diary into the "Changing Eating Habits Survey".

Digestion - The First Stop on your Body Tour......

You will need to open a new POD to begin work on your "Body Tour" POD. So click on the POD link on the side of this page, and follow these easy directions:

• Login in using your login name and password.
• Choose "Create a new POD".
• Name your POD something like "___'s Body Tour" where the "___" is your name.
• Click on "Create".
• Click on "Enter Your POD"
• You should now be in your new POD. Click on the "Writing Room".
• You will build a room for each of the Body Systems as you research about them. So click on "Build a New Room". and name it the "Digestion Room". Now you are ready to create a tour of the digestion system. Be sure to give enough details for other crew members to understand why the digestive system is important to good health. You can see a sample "Body Tour POD" by clicking on Tony's Body Tour

So what happens to that food when you eat it???? Use the following links to fill in the details on your notetaking worksheet or into your electronic notebook inside your POD:

• Follow the path the food takes through your system at or
• see a quick movie from BrainPOP.
• This site from the Mississippi School for Mathematics gives lots of details about the organs involved in the digestive system.... very lifelike as the sounds of digestion accompany the site.
• Or an interactive diagram of the digestive system to gather your facts.

Now use your facts to fill in the facts in the "Digestion Room" in Your BodyTour POD......

For Systems within the Human Body Research Station

Fitness /Nutrition & Digestion / Skeletal System / Circulatory System /
Respiratory System / Nervous System & the Brain

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