Pmclb school

Fifth graders represented the functioning of the digestive system in a creative way. 🌷Each student represented an organ and demonstrated how it works. 😊 The process started with the mouth👄, where food was masticated using Lego blocks to represent food being cut into smaller pieces. A sock🧦 was then used to represent the esophagus, showing how food moves through it by the contraction of the muscles.

The stomach was represented by a bowl, a wooden spoon was used to show brewing, and juice represented gastric juice. The Lego pieces were mixed with the juice using the spoon 🥄to demonstrate digestion in the stomach. Absorption was represented by a sponge that absorbed the liquefied nutrients. The remaining solid waste (Lego pieces) was then pushed into the large intestine, represented by another sock. Peristaltic movements in the large intestine were shown using hand movements to demonstrate muscle contraction. Finally, the solid wastes were eliminated from the body through the a**s.

Students selected a shape from the bag, hopped through the hula hoops, and carefully matched it to the correct shape on the board.
This hands-on activity supported shape recognition, problem-solving, and gross motor development—all at the same time! 🤍💜