YEARS 7–12 IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM
Year 7 Practical Skills for Inquiry Learning – Part 3 (continued)
teacher to answer. The questions below are some that appeared
on a question wall when “The role of the digestive system” was
the topic:
• Can you live without ...... organ?
• Can people eat meat all the time without getting sick?
• How do we get nutrients from the food we eat?
• How does the food move through the body?
• What is heartburn? (can lead to the practical with Gaviscon)
• Why can’t some people drink milk?
• Why is poo brown?
• Why doesn’t stomach acid burn us?
• How long can you survive without eating?
• What makes us vomit?
• Why is the small intestine longer than the large intestine?
• Can you eat upside down? (a lead-in to peristalsis)
• Why do we burp?
• Why does the stomach make a noise?
• What keeps things in place?
• How much intestine is there/how does it fit?
• What causes stomach ulcers – how can they be cured?
• Why do farts smell?
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