- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
Digestive System
Activity.... Do – Think - LearnWhen you put food in your mouth the process of digestion begins. Medicine can be given by mouth and follows the same route as food.
How much pain are they in?
How much medicine will the patient need?
How effective was your treatment?
What happens when you swallow food or medicine?
Why is it dangerous to take too much medicine?
The Science Bit
Medications can help relieve pain. The digestive system is one way of getting medicines into our bodies, by taking tablets or liquid medicines. Food is ingested and travels to the stomach where the body starts to break down carbohydrates into simpler substances. The process continues in the intestine where proteins and fats are broken down into substances the body can aborb. Like food, the digestive system changes the medicines form to enable it to enter the blood stream. The medicine state is changed and absorbed into the blood system through the walls of the small intestine.
Curriculum Links
Ourselves
- That we need to eat and drink to stay alive
Health and Growth
- That humans need food and water to stay alive
- That sometimes we take medicines when we get ill, these help us to get better
- That medicines are useful but are drugs not foods and can be dangerous
- That some people need medicines to keep them alive and healthy
- To ask questions about medicines and health
- That medicines can be dangerous if we take them without consulting parents or doctors
- To recognise hazards and risks in medicines and how to avoid these
- To communicate information about the safe use of medicines
Keeping healthy
- That the heart and lungs are protected by the ribs
Last Modified: 27/07/2011
