Download N-Squad Episode One: Mission Debrief

N-Squad Episode One: Mission Debrief
TEACHER VERSION
These short answer response questions can be used as a review or as a final
assessment or both.
Review
Arrange your students in groups of four to six. Have them choose a recorder who
will first guide the group in brainstorming all the key points they felt they learned in
the episode they just played. Then, hand them the questions from that episode.
They may choose one of the questions or you may have them draw for one. If time
permits, you could have the group respond to both.
Provide each student with a copy of the question since it includes the terms they
are trying to use. As a group, they should submit a written response to the question.
The discussion of the terms and the explanation of definitions and concepts by the
students will be an excellent review. The group can receive credit for both their
brainstorming list and the final written response.
Assessment
To use as a final assessment, have students choose between the questions and
write their response. Encourage them to use the terms that are included.
Question 1
Trace the pathway of the organs in the digestive system from the beginning to the end.
Which four organs help to eliminate alcohol from the body? How does this happen in each
organ?
Use these terms in your answer: esophagus, large intestine, small intestine, mouth,
pancreas, liver)
Answer
The pathway of the organs in the digestive system is mouth, esophagus, stomach, small
intestine, and large intestine. The liver makes bile for the small intestine to help it digest
fats and it filters out toxins. The pancreas makes a digestive juice that the small intestine
uses to break down fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.
The four organs that help eliminate alcohol from the body are the esophagus, the
stomach, the small intestine, and the liver. The esophagus passes the alcohol from
the mouth to the stomach. In the stomach, 20% of the alcohol is absorbed into the
bloodstream, whereas the small intestine absorbs 80%. The liver filters alcohol out of the
bloodstream.
Question 2
Alcohol can cause problems in the way the liver functions. Explain the short-term effects
and long-term effects of alcohol on this important organ.
Use these terms in your answer: short-term alcohol abuse, long-term alcohol abuse, fatty
liver, obesity, cirrhosis, scars in the liver, inflamed, rapid weight loss, no symptoms, viral
hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis.
Answer
Short-term alcohol abuse can cause a fatty liver. Obesity or rapid weight loss can be other
causes of a fatty liver. A person with a fatty liver shows no symptoms.
One of the effects of long-term alcohol abuse is alcoholic hepatitis. Hepatitis means
that the liver cells are inflamed. Over time, the liver cells damaged by hepatitis may be
replaced with permanent scars. This condition is known as cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis can also be caused by viral hepatitis.
N-Squad Episode One: Mission Debrief
Name ___________________________ Class __________________ Date ________________
Directions:
Answer the question with the provided terms.
Question 1:
Trace the pathway of the organs in the digestive system from the beginning to the end.
Which four organs help to eliminate alcohol from the body?
How does this happen in each organ?
Use these terms in your answer: esophagus, large intestine, small intestine, mouth,
pancreas, liver.
Your answer:
N-Squad Episode One: Mission Debrief
Name ___________________________ Class __________________ Date ________________
Directions:
Answer the question with the provided terms.
Question 2:
Alcohol can cause problems in the way the liver functions. Explain the short-term effects
and long-term effects of alcohol on this important organ.
Use these terms in your answer: short-term alcohol abuse, long-term alcohol abuse, fatty
liver, obesity, cirrhosis, scars in the liver, inflamed, rapid weight loss, no symptoms, viral
hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis.
Your answer: