Year 4 - Lime Class - We made poo!!

Today, Year 4 have been learning about the digestive system and what our bodies do to digest food.  To start, we made poo!  We used a plastic bag to represent the stomach with the food and orange juice (the stomach acid) inside and the children churned the food to break it down into molecules.  Next came pouring it into the small intestine (tights) where they squeezed all the nutrients out.  It was later taken by the large intestine (the cloth) which absorbed the remaining water before passing through the anus as faeces!!

There were mixed feelings about making it - some of excitement, some of intrigued and some of horror!  But all have loved being scientists this morning conducting a scientific enquiry!