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Digestion Models - Year 12 Food Studies

Last week our Year 12 Foodies learnt all about the process of chemical and mechanical digestion through playdough on canvas.

Students made the playdough in a range of different colours and shared these around the room with each other. They then went about forming and labelling the different parts of the digestive system, including the accessory organs. Using different seeds, grains and sequins as our enzymes, students stuck these down into the different sections of the GI tract to demonstrate enzymatic hydrolysis of different macronutrients along their journey. 

It was an incredibly fun lesson, and our class was left with a colourful display of the wonderful, yet complicated digestive tract. Well done year 12s.

Katie Sutherland

Food Studies Teacher

Fun fact – If stretched out, a typical adult digestive system is around 9 meters long!