​Intolerance = difficulty digesting certain foods

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Bloating = gas in your gut

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Diarrhoea = passing looser or more frequent stools​

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Esophagus​ = muscular tube that passes food and liquid from your throat to your stomach

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​Key Vocabulary Today:

​The

Digestive

System​

Describe the function of the digestive system, what does it do?

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Challenge:

Can you add any of the vocabulary we just discussed?​

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LMS ACTIVITY.

​3 mins

Hamdan has been experiencing pain after eating food. He has realised when he eats certain foods like bread, cheese and eggs the pain gets worse.

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He notices he gets stomach pain, bloating and headaches. Then sometimes he gets diarrhoea.

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What disease could Hamdan have?​

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Meet Hamdan

Hamdan has a food intolerance​

Meet Hamdan

The most common food intolerances are:

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• Dairy

• Egg

• Gluten​

Food Intolerance

How do you think people feel?​ (Signs and Symptoms​)

10% of people in the UAE have a food intolerance

Food Intolerance

Hamdan needs your help!

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He needs you to explain his problem and figure out a solution!

HELP HAMDAN

On your table you have some materials which can help Hamdan.​

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• Crackers, Water in a cup, A Plastic bag, Some stones.​

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In your​ groups you will need to create an experiment which will explain to Hamdan what a food intolerance is.

Experiment Time

In your groups decide what role to be:

​Leader - keep everyone on track responsible for completing task.

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Timekeeper - make sure the group is completing the task in a good time and not wasting time.

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Scribe – will write the group’s answers to the questions.

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Artist- Will physically do the experiment

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 If there is less than 4 people, the leader will also be the timekeeper. If there are more than 4 people, there will be 2 Artists.

Experiment Time

​1) Put the crackers into your bag.

2) Add the water.

3) Squeeze the bag.

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What happens?

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4) Add the stones, what has happened now.​

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Remember, you need to try and answer​ on your sheet.

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The first steps

​10 mins

Feedback about experience.

​Swap you answer papers with another group.

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Use a rubric created to mark the other groups work.

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Feeback

Try an complete as many questions as you can.

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If you are unsure on a question, try!​

Plenary -LMS ACTIVITY.