The Digestive System

What I Learned About the Digestive System

At school, in Units of Inquiry (UOI), the whole grade had to go to stations, and I will be telling you what I learned in the station where we learned about the digestive system. The process all starts when you swallow your food. So first, your mouth digests the food into small pieces. Then, you swallow it. When you swallow the food, the food mixes with saliva so that your stomach digests the food easier, so if you swallow the food without chewing it, then your stomach will have to work extra hard to digest it, since it’s not even digested yet. Then, after the stomach digests the food even more, then it goes in the small  intestine. It swirls around, and when it reaches the large intestine, it continues to swirl around until it reaches the bottom, some of it becomes a waste, which you don’t need, and that becomes the pee/poo. And that is the process of the digestive system.