Guts

  • Digestion
  • Fat Cells
  • From Mouth to Anus
  • Hydrogen, Oxygen
  • Lungs
  • The Mitochondria
  • Vomit
  • Voosh
  • Why Does it Happen?
  • Where Do They Go?
    • These are a collection of -What did you Learn?- assignments, created by Latham Piper, for his sixth grade science lessons.





    DIGESTION

    I learned that the food that I eat, even after it has been chewed, is still not small enough to feed one gut cell so enzymes and water break it down in to smaller pieces .

    FAT CELLS

    What I learned from this chapter is that a fat person that was born fat was most likely born with twice as many fat cells as a person who was skinny.

    FROM MOUTH TO ANUS

    What I learned from this chapter is that food is moved through my body along my food tube by series of muscles contracting and relaxing to squeeze food along.

    HYDROGEN, OXYGEN

    What I learned from this chapter is that the way that water comes together is by the separate molecules that are in water consist of two Hydrogen "arm's" and an Oxygen "stem" and the hydrogen arm's come together like a magnet and then come apart and rejoin with a new partner.

    LUNGS

    What I leaned from this chapter of The Body Book is that; what a nurse or a doctor is looking for when they thump my back is a hollow or a solid sound. If they hear a solid sound that means I might have fluid in my lungs as in the disease or infection of pneumonia. If they hear the hollow sound, that tells the doctor that my lungs are fine. I also learned that when the doctors ask me to breath steadily and puts a stethoscope on my back, he is listening for either a windy sound or a raspy sound. If they here the raspy sound; that either means that there is mucus that is clogging my bronchial tubes [as in the infection bronchitis] or from the restriction of air flow by muscles contracting, also called asthma.

    PANCREAS.

    What I learned from this chapter is that the pancreas from a calf looks pale and like a big hunk of gut. I also learned that most of the digestion that goes on to digest a piece of food goes on in a 25 centimeters long piece of gut called the Duodenum.

    THE MITOCHONDRIA.

    What I learned from this chapter is that a mitochondrion is a bacteria that has special abilities [like taking energy from food] that other cells don't have. The other cells that don't have the special ability that the other cells don't have so they ate the Mitochondria and the Mitochondria lived inside it's host body and shared the food that the cell ate and turned it into energy.

    VOMIT

    I learned that what causes stomach acids to stir and to come out the mouth. There is a "switch" in the brain that switches on and off for various reasons, like an over stuffed stomach or getting really dizzy. I also learned that an adult male can hold up to four litters of food in his stomach and when his stomach is full it looks like a water balloon filled with water.

    VOOSH

    What I learned from his chapter is that during the day 8 litters of water gushes through my gut each day. I also learned that my body's outside and inside are just a big piece of skin.

    WHY DOES IT HAPPEN?

    What I learned from this chapter is that when someone gets constipated it is caused either from lack of water in the anus tube and so the poop is too dry or because the anus tube is not getting enough poop and so it temporarily goes to sleep and poop build s up and then the hole gets clogged.

    WHERE DID THEY GO?

    What I learned from these pages of The Body Book is that, when an embryo is maturing it has three pairs of kidney's. In boys, the extra pair of kidney's turn into his testes and sperm tubes. In girls the extra pair of kidney's turn into her ovaries and the sperm tubes in boys just shriveled away in girls.
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