Today in Science, we carried out an experiment to learn about the digestive system. We used a variety of household items to recreate the different steps involved in digesting food.
We used bananas and crackers to represent food, water to represent the saliva and fresh orange to represent the stomach acid. Then, using a sealable bag to represent the stomach and our hands to represent the stomach muscles we mushed it together.
After, we put the food into a stocking which represented the small intestine. We squeezed all of the food through allowing the nutrients to flow into the tray below which represented the body.
Then, with the hard waste left we cut a hole in the stocking and transferred it into a paper cup with a hole in the bottom which represented the large intestine and rectum. We finally pushed the waste out through the bottom of the cup to represent our POO!
We had lots of fun with this messy experiment.
