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Science Comics: The Digestive System: A Tour Through Your Guts #1

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In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract! Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacterium who will take you on a journey beyond imagination. Uncover how food is transformed into nutrients! Explore strange and dangerous glands! Behold the wonders of saliva, mucus, and vomit! Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino provide a trip to the toilet you will never forget!

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more! Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you!

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Science Comics: The Digestive System – review

Blissfully barren of fart jokes.

Part of Macmillan Press’ First Second publishing line, Science Comics: The Digestive System offers an in-depth and educational look at how the human body processes energy. Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino have created a graphic novel that’s informative, but not without a few hiccups.

Digestive System opens with an introduction by gastroenterologist Sushrut Jangi, MD, who describes his own experience and curiosity surrounding the human digestive system. Though brief, this introduction helps set up the adventurous tone of the book, creating intrigue in a subject matter that might otherwise seem mundane.

From there, the issue opens in silence as a a hungry mouth devours a bite of food. Ristaino’s exaggerated illustration style works nicely for the tone, offering a lighter mood that makes the science easier to digest (so to speak). A more realistic art style may have left the book feeling dry. The layouts are fairly standard, with borderless panels accompanied by the text of Viola’s script.

Viola tells the narrative of the digestive system starting at the mouth, and gives the readers a guide in the form of E, a bacterium that operates in the same vein as Mr. DNA in Jurassic Park , explaining the details and reacting to the ever-shifting environment.

Aimed at ages 9-13, Science Comics: The Digestive System isn’t afraid to throw larger terms like triglycerides and phospholipids at the reader. While these terms are defined well enough, there isn’t a pronunciation guide to accompany them. It’s a frustrating omission, especially considering there’s a glossary in the back of the volume, and plenty of people suffer embarrassment from mispronouncing a word. Something as simple as “Try-gliss-er-rides” would have gone a long way.

Digestive System isn’t just educational, it’s also humorous. The most effective gags are the visual ones, and thankfully the story largely avoids toilet humor until the narrative closes. There are a couple jokes that I wonder if kids will get, though. When the story takes us to the pylorus, Viola notes that the Greeks called this part of the stomach the Gatekeeper. And so the pyloric sphincter asks, “Are you the Keymaster?” As a millennial, this was one of the funniest jokes in the book for me, but I wonder if today’s middle-schoolers have seen Ghostbusters , or have seen it enough for the joke to land the way it did for me.

Science Comics: The Digestive System succeeds in its mission to make learning fun. The way Viola and Ristaino lay out the journey is in-depth, eagerly introducing new concepts with each page. The cartoon art style helps ease the reader into a topic that some might find repulsive, while maintaining a fidelity to the subject matter. While there are some places where the volume could have been improved, this is still a great way to introduce readers to human anatomy and how we break food down into energy.

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In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract! Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacterium who will take you on a journey beyond imagination. Uncover how food is transformed into nutrients! Explore strange and dangerous glands! Behold the wonders of saliva, mucus, and vomit! Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino provide a trip to the toilet you will never forget! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic–dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more! Whether you’re a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you!

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Digestive System Notebooking Pages

The next set of anatomy notebooking pages is the Digestive System.

I added a comic strip notebooking pages for those who are using the Apologia Elementary Anatomy Text , and for those who would like to add it to their studies.

Here are some questions to think about as you do your study on the digestive system.

1. What is the alimentary canal? 2. What processes take place in it?

3. What is the purpose of mastication? 4. Describe the teeth. Name them. 5. Describe the structure of the teeth. 6. What can you say of the care of the teeth?

7. What glands are located in the mouth? 8. What do these glands secrete, and what are the properties of these secretions? 9. Describe the pharynx.

10. Describe the stomach. 11. Name and describe the coats of the stomach, and tell the use of each. 12. What is the gastric juice, and what is its use? 13. What is known of the movements of the stomach? 14. Describe the process of stomach-digestion. 15. What is the chyme? 16. Describe the small intestine.

17. What is the pancreas? 18. What can you say of pancreatic digestion?

19. Describe the liver. 20. What is known of the bile and its action? 21. When does absorption take place?

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Digestive System Project – Cut out and put together the digestive system. Label and explain what each organ does.

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Digestive System Lessons with Experiments – This site has a few simple experiments that use everyday supplies.

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THE JOURNEY OF A MEATBALL ( Sung to the Tune — On Top of Old Smoky)

On top of spaghetti — all covered with cheese I spotted a meatball, and quick as you please I forked that big meatball right into my mouth and started a process that this song’s about.

My teeth chewed the meatball and mixed it up well with saliva and juices, all triggered by smell. That bolus of food then passed out of my mouth and into the esophagus for its long journey south.

The old peristalsis kicked right in you know and took my big meatball where the pH is low. Inside of my stomach, HCL and pepsin were mixed with the meatball by churning again.

Then shortly my stomach told the meatball good-bye passed it to the intestine where the pH is high. Intestinal juices, pancreatic ones too along with the liver’s bile has much work to do.

All of those enzymes got right down to work and broke down my meatball with nary a quirk. Amino acids, monosaccharides too are all that is left from my meatball it’s true.

Now all of the nutrients set out for a ride in a little red blood cell tucked safely inside they’ll ride in the plasma wherever it leads and nourish a cell that has nutritional needs.

Back in the intestine the rest of my meal was sent to the colon — which removes water with zeal. When you eat spaghetti all covered with cheese remember my meatball and these processes.

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I can’t get the “Digestive System Project – Cut out and put together the digestive system. Label and explain what each organ does” link to work. 🙁

Don’t you just hate that; when a link is no longer good? I couldn’t remember exactly how this file looked as I was searching for another place it might be. After wording my search many different ways, I did find this, http://www.explorebiology.com/documents/LE/LabDigestiveSystem2008.pdf . It looks like it is what I originally had, or close to it.

Thank you for your patience Elizabeth. I hope this helps.

Thank you very much! :o) I appreciate your willingness to share these wonderful pages. I can’t wait to check out the rest of your site.

You are very welcome Tisha.

Is this to be used with the Young Explorer Series or the Human Body Series?

Hi Sheryl, I originally made chapter specific pages for the Young Explorer’s Series, but couldn’t share those because I didn’t want to get into any trouble with copyright, so I generalized them so that they could be used with any anatomy course or book.

Thank you so much for all the great resources. I started using the digestive system pages and will certainly by using the other body systems in my class.

You are welcome Tanya! It is always a joy to know they are being used. Thank you for stopping by and for letting me know you have found them useful. 🙂

THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your Anatomy Downloads….. I will surely link back to you when I get down to blogging about our human body studies !

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The Digestive System: A Tour Through Your Guts (Science Comics)

by Jason Viola (Author) Andy Ristaino (Illustrator)

In Science Comics: The Digestive System , visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract!

Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacterium who will take you on a journey beyond imagination. Uncover how food is transformed into nutrients! Explore strange and dangerous glands! Behold the wonders of saliva, mucus, and vomit! Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino provide a trip to the toilet you will never forget! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more! Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you!

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When explaining a process, it's often more fun to make a narrative out of it! Give students the ability to show off their creativity by creating a narrative storyboard that illustrates the story of how food is digested . Students can add characters, faces, and frame the story from the perspective of someone eating the food. To scaffold the activity or provide an alternative, give students the text and have them create the illustrations using Storyboard That.

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Demonstrate your understanding of the digestive by creating a narrative storyboard. Tell the story of a piece of food as it travels through the alimentary canal. Make sure you include all the different stages from the mouth the anus. You should use a series of scenes, shapes, objects and Textables to tell your story.

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11 comments

Rex Vivat May 28, 2016 at 9:58 pm

You forgot to tag Appendix.

GMUPatriots May 29, 2016 at 11:15 am

Aww! Gallbladder’s happy!!

Bacon Informer June 5, 2016 at 6:17 pm

But he no maked it :'(

Shawn Brooks May 29, 2016 at 11:52 am

I DEMAND A TSHIRT!!!

C May 30, 2016 at 9:50 am

I like it when gallbladder is happy. 🙂

Simon George April 30, 2017 at 11:15 am

No. That bastard tried to kill me. He had to die.

baxtus June 18, 2017 at 3:46 pm

No, that was your diet

The SAD diet

Divakar Josee June 11, 2016 at 7:32 am

Nice work….

Skylyn623 July 15, 2017 at 3:28 pm

Aaye where them kidneys at? 😛

Skylyn623 July 15, 2017 at 3:29 pm

Aye where them kidneys at?

Jenuinearticle December 1, 2017 at 5:50 pm

I think this is the happiest I’ve ever seen the bowel! Maybe “satisfied” is a better word.

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