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Sean Gillmore
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BIOLOGY 7

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

Food Flight
◆ Problem Imagine that you are a food traveling through the digestive
system. How can you make a series of postcards to describe your
trip?

◆ Suggested Materials
Large note pad
Colored pens / pencil

◆ Devise a Plan
1. Study the materials and think of a way you could use them to
describe a food’s trip through the digestive system. You will
need to create five postcards, one for each of five major areas
of the system: the mouth, the esophagus, the stomach, the
small intestine, and the large intestine.
2. Choose a food. On one side of each postcard, use words to
describe the journey from the food’s point of view. On the
other side of the postcard, draw a picture of something that
the food might “see” or pass through during each part of the
trip. For example, suppose the food you chose was an apple.
Your postcard describing the mouth might have a picture of
teeth on the front. The message on the back might begin,
“Dear Mac—So far, I have had a miserable trip. I haven’t
even left the mouth yet, and already the teeth you see on the
other side of this postcard have torn me apart, crushed me,
and cut me into pieces.”
3. Try to include as much information about the digestive
system on your post-cards as you can. Be sure to explain the
function of each part or structure that you describe. Also,
define any science words that you use, such as absorption or
enzyme.

◆ Analyze and Conclude

After following the plan you devised, answer the following
questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Identify two types of nutrients your food contains and
explain why each of these nutrients is important to the body.
2. To which food group or groups of the Food Guide
Pyramid does your food belong?
3. In which part of the digestive system are most of the
nutrients of your food absorbed?
4. In which part of the digestive system does your food become a thick liquid?

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