We've finished the Digestive System Unit of Study! Take a minute to describe exactly what happens as you wake up on Thanksgiving, and soon you start smelling that delicious meal. Describe what happens to your body...from the moment you 'sense of smell kicks in,' to your last bite???
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Jack Yaek
11/4/2014 05:43:45 am
You get hungry and it smells great.Now Saliva Starts to form in your mouth.You tongue and teeth also help mash your food into bolus. It goes down your stretchy esophagus into your stomach where gastric juices get to work.They turn it into a liquid mixture and the mixture goes in the small intestine.Your small intestine takes out proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins. Then onward to the large intestine. Your large intestine takes out most of the liquid. Then it goes out and down the toilet.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:53:14 am
WOW!!!! Amazing response Jack :)
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You get hungry and it smells great.Now Saliva Starts to form in your mouth.You tongue and teeth also help mash your food into bolus. It goes down your stretchy esophagus into your stomach where gastric juices get to work.They turn it into a liquid mixture and the mixture goes in the small intestine.Your small intestine takes out proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins. Then onward to the large intestine. Your large intestine takes out most of the liquid.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:53:45 am
Nice work Jake!!! Keep working hard!
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nicole
11/4/2014 08:59:11 am
When you smell the food you start to get saliva in your mouth. When you take the first bite your tounge push the food around in your mouth. Your teeth grind up the food and the saliva moisens the food this is called the bolus. The bolus goes down the esophagus into your stomach. Once it's in the stomach acids break down the food into a very liquid mixture called chime. The chime get's stored away. After that is slowy emtyed into the small intestine. After the small intestine asored all the nutrients it can get it goes on to the large intestine. The large intestine is the last chance for your body to get the nutrients it needs. After it get's the nutrients it is formed into a solid. then is extreted as a bowel movement.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:54:28 am
I am SOOOOOO very proud of you, Nicole! Great work :)
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Tyler Rabine
11/4/2014 10:19:59 am
When you smell food saliva forms in your mouth.Whn you take the first bite your teeth, tongue, and saliva break down food into bolus, a small mushy bit of food.There is a thing called the epiglottis that is the flap over your trachea that makes sure food dosen't go down the wrong pipe.The bolus will go down the esophagus. Then the bolus will be broken down better into a liquidy mixture. The stomach also stores food.Then it slowly empties the liguidy mixture into the small intestine. The small intestine digests fats, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, and vitamins.Then it empties the mixture into the large intestine. The large intestine gets the rest of the moisture out of your food. Then it exits the body in the form of a bowel movement.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:55:10 am
Hooray!!!! You even mentioned the epiglottis!!! Keep up the amazing work Tyler :)
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Kaleb
11/5/2014 07:10:18 am
You would smell the great food and saliva would form in your mouth. You use your teeth and tongue to break down the food into bolus. The bolus goes down a stretchy 10 inch long pipe called the esophagus into the stomach. Then it goes into the small intestine to absorb the fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins. After, it goes into the large intestine and is the body’s last chance to absorb water and nutrients. So last, it comes out in bowel movement.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:55:54 am
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for such a terrific response Kaleb!!!
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Sydney Gross
11/6/2014 07:28:17 am
When you smell the food, Saliva, a mild gastric acid forms in your mouth to help break down the food when it goes in your mouth. When you eat the food, your teeth, saliva and tongue mash up the food and break it down into bolus. Then, it gets pushed into a stretchy 10 inch tube called the esophagus. The epiglottis is a small flap that covers the trachea so the bolus does not go down the trachea. The bolus spends about 3 seconds in the esophagus, and then it falls into the stomach. The stomach has 3 jobs; to store the food; mix it into a liquid-like mixture; and slowly empty the mixture into the small intestine. The small intestine then sucks out the nutrients, protein, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins. Then, it is emptied into the Large intestine. The large intestine is the body's last chance to suck out protein, and the Large intestine also sucks out water and forms the food into a solid, and releases it out of the body as a bowel movement, or stool. Then... (Hopefully) Flush!
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Sydney Gross
11/6/2014 07:31:29 am
Oops! I meant nutrients at the Large intestine part... :)
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:56:43 am
SUPER Sydney!!! I love how you mentioned the 3 jobs! Wonderful work!
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Gabriel Treutle
11/6/2014 08:53:29 am
when you smell food that smells good saliva forms in your mouth. once the food goes into your mouth the saliva, teeth, and the tongue start to break down the food into a small ball called bolus. bolus goes to the back of the throat where the epiglottis closes to let the bolus get into the esophagus. The esophagus is a long winding tube that goes to your stomach. The stomach has three major jobs, they are to store food, to break food down into a liquid type mixture, and to slowly empty that liquid mixture into the small intestine. once the food gets to the small intestine the food gets broke down even more and the small intestine adsorbs fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins, and carbohydrates. then the small intestine empties the food or bolus into the large intestine where the anus, colon, and rectum are. the colon is the last chance to adsorb water. the anus and the rectum is the last stop of the digestion system.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:57:46 am
Your response is positively fantastic Gabe! (Try to remember proper sentence structure, which includes capital letters at the beginning of all sentences.)
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Lily Urbanowicz
11/9/2014 09:23:36 am
When you first smell the delicious food, saliva starts forming in your mouth. When you start to eat, your teeth, tongue, and saliva mush the food into bolus. Then, the bolus goes down your esophagus, a ten inch tube. The esophagus then leads to the stomach, where gastric juices get to work. After the stomach and gastric juices make the food into a liquidy mixture, then heads to the small intestine. In the small intestine, it absorbs minerals, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and nutrients. After the small intestine, the mixture heads to the large intestine, and it's 5 feet long!! The small intestine is the bodies last chance to absorb minerals and water. On the way out of the small intestine, the mixture hardens and the large intestine pushes it into the rectum, in till a bowel movement.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/10/2014 04:59:19 am
Way to go Lilly!!! I love that you added "delicious" food! I'm certain our mouths wouldn't start watering from a burnt, torched, overcooked turkey! (Not mine anyway :)
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Lily Urbanowicz
11/9/2014 09:27:10 am
Whoops!!!!! It meant to be until :-)
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megan m
11/11/2014 04:27:01 am
When I wake up on thanksgiving and I smell the delicious food, alot of saliva forms in my mouth. Then when I start to eat my tongue is bursting with flavor! When the food goes down the esophagus the gastric juices are so excited to get to work. And when my food gets broken down and stored, it is emptied into the small intestion. The small ingestion breaks down the food even more and it absorbs vitamins, proteins, minerals, carbohydrates, and fats. Next it is in the large ingestion where it is the bodies last chance to absorb water and nutribody and the left over delicious food becomes a solid and is emptied out of the body.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/23/2014 09:40:26 pm
WONDERFUL Megan!!! Very well organized, well thought out response!
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elise
11/11/2014 06:46:28 am
even before you eat when you smell a tasty food digestion beguines
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/23/2014 09:40:49 pm
How?
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Molly Ressler
11/11/2014 08:52:26 am
First you smell your food and saliva forms in your mouth and you put the food in your mouth the food will then be broke by teeth, tongue, and saliva then it will go down the esophagus then in the stomach, next it goes to the small intestine, and last into the large intestine.
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/23/2014 09:41:10 pm
Good work!
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Taylor Tomasino
11/15/2014 06:23:08 am
When you smell food Silva forms in your mouth. Then when you eat your teeth and tongue break it down and then it goes to the esophagus and then it goes into the stomach and then it goes to the small intestine which absorbs the fats ,proteins vitamins, carbs , and minerals and then it goes to the large intestine which absorbs water and minerals and after the rest of your food turns into a solid and gets out of your body.
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Clair
11/18/2014 07:56:57 am
The food makes saliva in your mouth. Your teeth and tongue start to break down the food into a small ball called bolus then goes down the epiglottis. The esophagus is a long tube that goes to your stomach. The stomach has three jobs; store food, break down food into a liquid, and empty into the small intestine. The small intestine brakes down food even more and then adsorbs proteins, minerals, vitamins, fats, and carbohydrates. Then it goes into the large intestine and it brakes it down again and then out the colon.
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Adam
11/20/2014 07:47:09 pm
The digestive system get ready so when you get ready to eat all the saliva builds up
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Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/23/2014 09:42:07 pm
Then what?
Mrs. Dobbelaer
11/23/2014 09:41:50 pm
I liked how you remembered the specific term 'bolus.' Great Job, Claire!
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