Digestive System Activities | Digestive System Research Report

Engage your students with this fun, comprehensive, 34 page Digestive System Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains worksheets, questions, organizers, tools, forms, and academic vocabulary for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Digestive System Research Report.

This report is also designed to not only learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions to further assess the students’ grasp of the information. This is also a component of the common core teaching strategies. This packet supports this standard and extends it into the areas of writing, listening and speaking. This package contains the following:

1. Title Page- Templates Provided-Topic, your name, teacher name) We created a

black and white version for you to copy if you don’t want to copy in color.

2. Digestive System and Excretory System (Template)

A. Describe the Digestive System and why it is important

B. Describe the functions of each part and illustrate each part

C. Describe the Excretory System and why it is important

D. Describe the functions of each part and illustrate each part

E. Choose two digestive system parts and compare and contrast them describing

their similarities and differences

F. The Small Intestine- Why is it so long and how does if fit in the body?

G. Choose your favorite food and describe its travels down the digestive system

H. Illustrate your favorite food and its travels within the body

I. Draw and label the human diagram for the parts of the digestive and excretory

system

J. Conclusion

K. Additional Information paper and blank paper if needed to expand your report

L. How to research your report

M. Note taking templates

N. Resource pages and Bibliography template

O. PowerPoint presentation information

P. Oral Report short overview

Q. Student Checklist for editing and revising

R. Rubric for Performance Task Assessment

S. Common Core Writing Standard

T. Teacher Notes on ideas on how to use this template research report

1 PDF file.