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This task consists of six lessons in which the students are placed into five groups. The five groups will each recieve a digestive organ to research using library resources and the internet to present their findings in a 2-3 minutes PowerPoint presentation. This task requires the students to act as medical researchers and present their findings to the classroom through a presntation that will teach their fellow classmates. Students will need to learn all about the digestive system, and how each part works to get all the nutrience out of your food that is consumed and how it removes waste.

The teacher can give an introduction to the topic through a video and then separate the class into 5 groups before giving them a main digestive organ to research. These are the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine. The students will use lessons 2, 3, 4 and 5 to research the organ, what it does and how it aides in digestion.

Each group will be given the opportunity to use the electronic whiteboard to learn about digestion using the interactive digestion resource. The students will be able to learn from this resource by seeing how their organ can affect the system if it does not do the right thing to the food. In this time the teacher can use resources about the digestive system to help the students research. In lessons six and seven the students will use the information they have gathered to put the remaining touches on their PowerPoint presentation. In this lesson the teacher should provide helpful instructions to students who have not used PowerPoint before.

In lesson eight the students will present their findings to the class. This presentation will allow them to act as doctors to teach the fellow classmates about the organ they have studied and its important role in the digestion system.

After this has been achieved the students can use large sheets of paper to trace around their own bodies and then using the information that have learnt from the topic they can use the paper cut outs of organs and place them on the body where they are located. They can also write any information that they remember from the presentation on the organ. The students can then use wool, textas and pencils to add their features to the body.

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