OUR BODIES AND BODY SYSTEMS

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DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Mouth
Food is broken up by the
teeth and mixed with
saliva by the tongue.
Small intestine
There are lots of blood
vessels. Nutrients pass into
the blood.
Large intestine
The waste passes through.
Water goes out into the body
and the waste becomes harder.
Esophagus
Food goes down this
tube to the stomach.
Stomach
Gastric juices make
the food into a thick
liquid.
Anus
The waste, called
faeces, leaves the
body.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM VIDEO

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EXCRETORY SYSTEM
Kidneys
When the blood goes
Ureters
through here, excess
The urine goes down these
water and waste products
tubes to the bladder.
are dropped off and made
into urine.

Bladder
Urethra The urine is stored here.
The urine leaves the When it is full it sends a
body through this message to our brain.
tube.
EXCRETORY SYSTEM VIDEO

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EXPERIMENT TIME!!

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

1 ZIP-LOCK PLASTIC BAG
A COUPLE CRACKERS
1 TABLESPOON WATER
ORANGE JUICE
 CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
Veins Arteries
They return the blood They carry blood (with
(with waste) back to oxygen) from the
the heart. heart to the rest of our
bodies.
HOW OUR HEART WORKS

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GUESSING TIME: WHAT IS IT?
NERVOUS SYSTEM Our brain controls our whole body from
your toes to your ears. But How does it
work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWst
NQCo3Rk

Our brain Works because it makes some

connections thanks to the neurons.
 WORKING SYSTEMS
Its nervous and locomotor systems were in action!

1. He saw a dog.

2. Its eyes sent a message

to its brain.

3. Its brain sent an order to

its locomotor system.

4. It ran away!
VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY
MOVEMENTS
VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY
MOVEMENTS

ITS YOUR TURN, WE NEED TO PROVE THAT THERE ARE VOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS AND INVOLUNTARY
MOVEMENTS ( THINK A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES, WRITE THEM DOWN AND ACT OUT !)