DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE 8
I.       OBJECTIVES:
                         At the end of the lesson, the learner’s should be able to:
                              a. Define digestive system.
                              b. Identify the different parts and functions of the digestive system.
                              c. Draw a model of the digestive system.
         II.      SUBJECT MATTER
                  a. Topic: THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
                  b. Materials : power point            printed pictures
                                Activity sheet   video clip
                  c. References:
                  d. Time allotment:1 hour
         III.     PROCEDURE
              TEACHER’S ACTIVITY                                         LEARNER’S ACTIVITY
    A. PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES
       Good morning class.
                                                                    Good morning ma’am.
Before we are going to start our class. Let’s have a prayer
first. Anyone who wants to lead the prayer?
                                                                    (One student will volunteer)
Class secretary who is absent today?
                                                                    ( Class secretary will answer)
    B. LESSON PROPER
   1. ACTIVITY
 How are you young learners?
                                                                    (Student will answer.)
 I can see on your face that you are excited to learn
 something new today!
 But before that, let us have our game for today.
 This game is entitled “Guess the Word”
 I have here a set of pictures and each picture has a jumbled
 letter.
 All you have to do is to arrange the jumbled letters to
 come up with correct name of a picture.
 If you know the answer, just your raise hand and tell me the
 correct answer.
 Did you get the instructions class?                                Yes ma’am.
 That’s good! Are you ready?                                        Yes ma’am.
 That’s great! Let’s start.
 (The teacher will flash the set of pictures.)
Very good class! It is good to know that you are very
familiar with the different organs inside our body.
    2. ANALYSIS
Based on our activity , what do you think is our lesson          About the digestive system ma’am.
today?
                                                                 The system responsible for the food we
Very good! Our lesson for today is all about the digestive       eat is the digestive system.
system.
What is your idea about digestive system?
                                                                 Ingestion, digestion, absorption and
                                                                 elimination ma’am.
Yes that’s right! The digestive system is responsible for the
breakdown and absorption of nutrients from food, thereby
bringing energy to the body.
Good job!
 Let us discuss the four main functions of the digestive
 system one by one.                                              We put the foods into our mouth
                                                                 ma’am.
Let us start by ingestion.
 Class, what is the first thing that you do to eat your foods?
 That’s correct! And that is what we called ingestion.
 Ingestion is the process of taking food, drink, or another
 substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
                                                                 One of the functions of the mouth is to
 As we can observe, the first organ involves in the digestion    ingests food.
 process is the mouth.
 And what do you think is the function of the mouth?             Another function of the mouth is
                                                                 to chews and mixes food.
Good!
Another?
 Awesome!
 Mouth is the anterior opening and it is guarded by upper
 and lower lips.
                                                                 Digestion is the process of breaking
                                                                 down food into components the body
 It contains oral glands, tongue, and teeth.
                                                                 can absorb.
 After taking the food through mouth, this is the time to
 digestion occurs.
                                                                 Yes ma’am.
 Class, anyone who can tell me what is digestion?
                                                                The main function of the esophagus
                                                                is to propels food to stomach.
Once you begin swallowing, the process becomes
automatic. The food passes into the esophagus.
Can you see the esophagus in the picture?
 Very good!
 What do you think is the role of esophagus?
                                                                 Yes ma’am.
 Great!
 The esophagus is a hollow, muscular tube that carries food     One of the functions of stomach is
 and liquid from your throat to your stomach.                   to mixes and churns food with
                                                                gastric juices.
 Now, we are entering the stomach. Can you see the
 stomach?
 Good!                                                          Because it is responsible for killing
                                                                ingested microbes thereby inhibiting
 What do you think is the function of stomach?                  infectious agents from reaching the
                                                                intestine.
 Gastric acid, gastric juice, or stomach acid is a digestive
 fluid formed within the stomach lining.
 Why do you think we have these gastric juices?                 Yes ma’am.
                                                                 The small intestine helps to further
 Very good!                                                      digest food coming from the
                                                                 stomach. This is where absorption
After digesting the food, the stomach will send it to the        occurs.
small intestine.
Can you see the small intestine?
 What do you think is the function of the small intestine?
 That’s a good answer!
 The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive
 juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and push the
 mixture forward for further digestion. The walls of the        The remaining matter from food that
 small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into   cannot be digested and absorbed
 your bloodstream.                                              passes into the large intestine as waste.
                                                                The waste later passes out of the body
 The pancreas and liver together with the gall bladder are      through the anus in the process of
 called the accessory organs of digestive system.               elimination.
 Now, what do you think will happen to any remaining
 matter from food that cannot be digested and absorbed?         It is the storage of the waste products
                                                                from the digestion process.
 Very detailed, good job!
 Therefore, what is the function of the large intestine?
 Correct!
                                                                 Yes ma’am.
The large intestine is where food waste is formed into
stool/feces, stored, and finally excreted through the process
of elimination.
                                                                The rectum is the lower end part of
The body expels waste products from digestion through the       the large intestine. This is where the
rectum and anus.                                                stool/feces being stored.
 Can you see the rectum?
                                                                The function of the anus is to exit
                                                                fecal matter regulated by the by the
 What do you think is the function of a rectum?                 anal sphincter.
 Very good!
 What about the anus?                                           None ma’am.
 Good job!
 And That is the end of the digestive process.
 Do have any questions? Very good!
 To further understand how digestive system works, let us       Digestion begins in the mouth with
 watch this short video.                                        chewing and ends in the small
                                                                intestine. As food passes through the
       (The teacher will play the video.)                       GI tract, it mixes with digestive juices,
                                                                causing large molecules of food to
   3. ABSTRACTION                                               break down into smaller molecules.
 Based on the video presented, how digestive system works?
                                                                 The organs involve in the digestive
                                                                 system are mouth, esophagus,
                                                                 stomach, small intestine, large
                                                                 intestine, rectum and anus. We also
                                                                 have accessory organs which are
 Very well said!                                                 liver, pancreas, and gall bladder.
 Can     you please         enumerate the organs involve in
 digestive system?
                                                                None ma’am.
Very good!
      Do you have any question?
4. APPLICATION
Direction: Label the different parts of the digestive
system and give the function of each.
       IV.     EVALUATION
    Modified Matching Type: Label the organs of the digestive system. Then match the labeled
    organ with its appropriate function. Write the letter of your answer on your paper
       V.      ASSIGNMENT
               List at least five (5) diseases that result from nutrient deficiency