Understanding the Digestive System in Teens

1. Your Digestive & Urinary System • Amanda Dermer • Keane Archibald • Dayana Jimenez • Courtney Blazer

2. The Digestive System!!! • Chapter 18: Lesson 1 • Eighth Graders • Age: 13-14 • Digestion • Absorption • Elimination

3. Digestive System • The purpose • define the function of each organ • the pathway food takes through the digestive tract

4. Work Sheet Fill in the Blank

5. Digestive System • The organs and parts of the digestive pathway: • Oral cavity • Pharynx • Esophagus • Stomach • Small Intestine • Large Intestine

6. Digestive System • Teeth • Tongue • Liver • Pancreas

7. Digestion Digestion • The process that breaks down food into substances that can be absorbed by the body for energy, growth, and repair.

8. Ingestion:Mouth, Teeth & Tongue • The function of the mouth is to ingest food sources • The teeth are used for mastication • breaking food down into smaller pieces • The tongue forms food into a ball to prepare for swallowing

9. Ingestion:Mouth, Teeth & Tongue • The mouth, teeth, and tongue play a role in mechanical digestion. • Mechanical digestion physically prepares food for chemical digestion by enzymes.

10. Salivary Glands • Secretes saliva • a watery solution containing an enzyme that starts the digestion • Cleanses the mouth • Dissolves food chemicals • Moisten food

11. Salivary Glands • The salivary glands begin the process of chemical digestion.

12. Pharynx • After leaving the mouth, food is passed on to the pharynx. • As you swallow: • Uvula: prevents food from passing into the nasal cavity. • Epiglottis: prevent food from entering the respiratory tract.

13. Primary Function; Carry foods and liquids to stomach Peristalsis moves food though the digestive tract Food passes through the pharynx into the esophagus Extends from the pharynx to the stomach Esophagus

14. Name & Place Activity

15. Stomach • Located below the esophagus • A hollow, saclike organ • Consists of three layers of muscles • Flexible, allowing it to expand when you eat.

16. Stomach • A temporary “storage tank” where the chemical breakdown of proteins begin. • The food is mixed together with gastric juices, secretions from the stomach’s lining • containing pepsin and hydrochloric acid.

17. Stomach • As the stomach fills: • stomach contract • churn the food and gastric juices together • This produces chyme • a creamy, fluid mixture of food and gastric juices .

18. Absorption • The passage of digested food from the digestive tract into the circulatory system. • The small intestine is the major absorption site.

19. Small Intestine • The major part of digestion and absorption • 20 to 23 feet in length • Secretions from the pancreas, liver, and intestinal juices complete the chemical breakdown of all food.

20. Millions of fingerlike projections called villi Each villus contains a network of capillaries which absorb digested food particles from the small intestine. Once food particles enter the capillaries in the villi, they are carried throughout the body by the blood. Small Intestine

21. Three parts to the small intestine Duodenum Food enters here from the stomach Jejunum The middle section of the SI Ileum Allow one way flow into the large intestine. Small Intestine

22. The Liver & Pancreas • Liver: 2nd largest organ in the body. • Acts to clear the blood of toxins then excreting them in the bile. • Bile is a yellowish-green, bitter fluid important in the breakdown of fats.

23. Liver & Pancreas • The pancreas produces 3 enzymes: • Trypsin, which digests proteins • Amylase, which digests carbohydrates • Lipase, which digests fats • Located in the C of the SI’s duodenum.

24. Gallbladder • Storage organ for bile produced from liver • Located below the liver • The small intestine stimulates the release of bile into the duodenum. • Not required for digestion

25. Large Intestine • Starts Ascending colon • Ends at the anus. • A.K.A. the colon • 5 to 6 feet long

26. Large Intestine • Unabsorbed materials: • leave the small intestine in the form of liquid and fiber • enter the large intestine • Absorbs most remaining • Water • Vitamins

27. Elimination • The expulsion of undigested food or body wastes.

28. Elimination • Harmless bacteria in the large intestine change the consistency of the undigested food into a semisolid waste, called feces • Feces passes from the body through the anus • Termed “bowel movement”

30. Activity: Place that Organ

31. Lifestyle & Dietary Factors • Eat at least 3 servings from a variety of fruits and vegetables to avoid constipation • Practice good hand washing hygiene • Throw food away after it falls on the floor • Wash all foods before eating • Decrease caffeine consumption • See Fact Sheet for More Dietary Info

32. Dietary Activity Unhealthy Diet Scenario

33. Medications • Some over the counter drugs that will help aid in the relief of constipation and diarrhea. • Diarrhea a. Imodium AD b. Pepto-Bismol • Constipation a. Citrucel b. Ex-Lax

34. Stats of Constipation & Diarrhea

35. Create your own digestive tract • Each group will be representing a different part the digestive tract • A member from each group will stand in front of the class and explain their organs function during the process of digestion • Be creative and have fun with the activity

36. Discussion Time

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