Digestion Song

Let’s listen to a song

Digestion Blues
 
Digestion starts in the mouth,
                  
Where the food’s chewed up before it heads South.
        
The salivary glands make it all wet,
              
And it’s there that the food starts to digest.
 
CHORUS:

Chew it up and swallow those itty-bitty pieces,

Take out all the good stuff, in the end it turns to faeces.

Churn it up and swallow it, turn it into goo.

Now you get to sing those digestion blues.
 
The esophagus squeezes the food on down,
          
And into the stomach, that’s where it’s found.
        
The gastric juices break down the food,
              
And the stomach muscles churn it up, so it can be used.
 
CHORUS:

Chew it up and swallow those itty-bitty pieces,
    
Take out all the good stuff, in the end it turns to faeces.
                                  
Churn it up and swallow it, turn it into goo.
                 
Now you get to sing those digestion blues.
 
The pancreas and liver add insulin and bile.
      
It’s in the duodenum for just a little while.
        
This gooey, gooey muck is now called chyme,

It’s nutrients are taken in the small intestine.
 
 
CHORUS:

Chew it up and swallow those itty-bitty pieces,
 
Take out all the good stuff, in the end it turns to faeces.

Churn it up and swallow it, turn it into goo.

Now you get to sing those digestion blues.
 
It’s in the large intestine where the water’s taken out,
         
The chyme’s compacted nicely, of this there is no doubt.
   
It passes through the rectum, the anus is at the end,
        
The sphincter muscle contracts, your bowel movement 
begins.
 
CHORUS:
                                             
Chew it up and swallow those itty-bitty pieces,
     
Take out all the good stuff, in the end it turns to faeces.
                               
Churn it up and swallow it, turn it into goo.
                       
Now you get to sing those digestion blues.
 
Revision
Digestive System
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Parts of a
digestive
system

Small Anus
Large
intestine intestin
2 main function digestive
system
1. Breaks down food into simple
substances.

2. Absorbs the simple food

substances so that they can be
used by the body
 What is digestion?

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down

The process where food is chewed

and broken down into simple substances
in the body.
 Starting from The Mouth
The teeth chews and grinds food into
smaller pieces.

The saliva makes food

soft enough to swallow.

The digestive juices in

the saliva helps digest
food slightly.
 Next The Gullet

Allows food to move

from the mouth
down to the
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To the Stomach

Food is crushed
further and mixed
with digestive
juices.
After some time,
the food will look
like a ‘thick soup’.
The Small intestine

More digestive juices

are added to the food.

Food substance are so

tiny that they can pass
through the walls of
intestine.
The Water Absorber-
Large intestine
This is where the
undigested food
go!
Most of the water is
removed from the
food here.
Large
intestine
The last step- The Anus

The undigested
food is passed out
of the body as
waste through an
opening called the
anus.
The anus
 What do you think?
Which organ system(s) do we
need the least? Explain your
answer.
The digestive system. If we do not eat 
for a few days, we will not die. ✗
There is no one system we need the least 
because all the organ systems need to 
work together to enable us to function 
properly.
 The question
Food is mixed with digestive juices in the  
______________.
It becomes a thick ‘soup’ after a few hours.

It is then passed into the  ________________ 
where the useful bits are absorbed into the 
_______________.

Undigested food is later passed out of the body 
through the  ________.
 What do you think?
Food is mixed with digestive juices in the
stomach.
It becomes a thick ‘soup’ after a few hours.

It is then passed into the small intestine where 
the useful bits are absorbed into the large 
intestine. ✗

Undigested food is later passed out of the body 
through the anus.
 Which part (A,B,C, D or E) is food
being digested and passed into the
blood vessels?

A
B
C
D
E Answer: B ✗
In what way is a balloon like the
stomach?

The shape.
✗
It is smaller when empty 
and expands when it is 
full.
Let’s learn together!
Which of the following does not
take place in the mouth during
digestion?

Saliva makes the food soft enough to swallow.
Our tongue shapes the food into a ball.

Our teeth chop up the food into smaller 
pieces.

Digested food is absorbed into the blood. ✔
When undigested food reaches
the large intestine, ___________ is
removed from it.

Water ✔
Urine

Carbon Dioxide

Solid waste
 Name one function of the
digestive system.

Mouth, gullet, stomach, small intestine, large 
intestine and the anus.

Heart, blood vessels, blood.

Break down food into simple substances. ✔
Carry food, water and oxygen to all parts of 
the body.
 In the digestion process, food is broken
down into simpler substances. In which part
of the body is the digested food being
absorbed into the blood?

Gullet

Mouth

Stomach

Small Intestine ✔
In which part of the digestive system are
the digestive juices found in the system?

mouth and stomach

small intestine and large intestine

mouth, stomach and small intestine ✔

mouth, stomach, small intestine and 
large intestine
Which of the following explains why food
must be completely digested before it
can pass through the blood stream?

Undigested food particles are too big to pass 
through the walls of the small intestine into the  ✔
blood stream

Undigested food particles are too big to be carried 
in the blood.

Absorption into the blood stream will not start 
unless all the food is digested.
Undigested food particles contains waste 
materials that may poison the blood.
Mini-Quiz
The digestion of food is
completed

In the large intestine

In the small intestine ✔

 QUIZ TIME!

What helps to break the food

even further in the stomach?
The salivary glands in the stomach
helps us to break down the food
even further.
The gastric juices in the stomach ✔
helps us to break down the food
even further.
 Undigested food goes to
the

Large intestine ✔

Small intestine
 Digestion starts in the
mouth and ends in the
large intestine.
True

False ✔
 Normal faeces are solid.

True ✔

False