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Digestion Comic Strip Assignment
Objective: Students will illustrate and describe the path of food through the digestive system. The
students will explain how the food is broken down and absorbed in the digestive system.
You will pretend to be any food of your choice and illustrate your journey through the digestive
system. BE CREATIVE! Describe what is happening to you at each stage. You must include the
following terms in your illustration:
Mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, salivary glands, tongue, esophagus , stomach, chyme,
hydrochloric acid, liver, villi, small intestines, large intestines, rectum, and anus.
You must include the following in your illustration:
Mechanical and chemical breakdown in the mouth and stomach, the journey down the esophagus,
entrance into the stomach, hydrochloric acid in the stomach, churning in the stomach, chyme
entering the small intestine, absorption by the villi in the small intestine, and what happens in the
large intestine.
BE CREATIVE-BE THOUROUGH-BE DESCRIPTIVE-DO THE BEST JOB YOU CAN!
DIGESTIVE COMIC STRIP ASSIGNMENT
Introduction of
your food
And
Illustration of food
Illustration of the food traveling from the
in the mouth.
mouth to the
stomach.
Illustrate food
Illustration of food in entering the first
the stomach.
part of the small
intestine.
Description of what is happening to
your food during this stage of
digestion. Make sure you use the
following words: mechanical
digestion, chemical digestion, teeth,
salivary glands, tongue, amylase,
and carbohydrates.
Describe what happens to the food
in the stomach and its preparation
to enter the small intestine. Make
sure you use the following words:
pyloric valve, protein, lipids, chyme,
hydrochloric acid, and pepsin.
Student Name
Title: Ex: Tom the
Twinkie’s journey
through the digestive
system.
Written and illustrated
by:
John Doe
Describe what is happening as food
is swallowed and moves toward the
stomach. Make sure you use the
following words: pharynx, soft
palate, esophagus, esophageal
sphincter, peristalsis, and stomach.
Describe what happens to food
leaving the stomach and filling
the small intestine. Make sure
you use the following words:
duodenum, liver, gall bladder,
bile, and pancreatic juices.