Modelling curiosity questions for students in grade 8 and means to find answers

1. CURIOSITY
QUESTIONS
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

2. What is digestion and how does it
work?
What are the structures of the
digestive system?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1aUVujviqk&feature=rel
ated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VyJOEcDos&feature=r
elated

3. What happens when my body
won’t accept food?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8v3pe49N1w&feature=r
elated

4. What is peristalsis?
OR
How does food get from my mouth
to my stomach?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3825vuwfCBo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aXT7h38tSM&feature=r
elated

5. What happens if the esophagus
doesn’t work properly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSRfYKf-
ewo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYets03uzk&feature=relat
ed

6. Where does saliva come
from?
What will happen to digestion if my salivary glands are
infected?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN0jwZeeIjI

7. Why don’t the acids in my
stomach burn me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHBBE3RKEs

8. Why does my stomach make
sounds when I’m hungry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naLJFb9r2ag

9. Why does my body need dietary
fiber?

10. What is a burp?
What causes burps?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZNG5ZbI-
w&playnext=1&list=PL504101C0FEC6BF01&feature=r
esults_video

11. What curiosity questions do you
have?
Share your questions on the blog as a comment.
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