Exploring the Submucosa: Key Functions in the Digestive System
This resource explores the critical role of the submucosa in the digestive system. Covered topics include the anatomical layers of the digestive system, the functions of the tongue, palate, teeth, and salivary glands in the digestion process, along with the roles of the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and intestines. Engage with lab activities, clinical rounds, and creative questions that enhance understanding of digestion. This learning journey also includes a creative travel journal exercise from the perspective of food.
Exploring the Submucosa: Key Functions in the Digestive System
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Do Now • What is the function of the submucosa?
Outline • Week One • Diagrams & layers of digestive system • Tongue, palate, teeth & salivary glands • Pharynx, esophagus, stomach • Pancreas, liver, gallbladder & intestines • Week Two • Digestion lab! • Diseases and treatments • Clinical Rounds • Review • TEST (MARCH 1st!)
Tongue • Move food to back
Palate • Hard in front, soft in back • Curves to make uvula • Tonsils also in back of throat
Teeth • Chew • Increase s.a. • Swallowing & digestion better • Root: Part above gums • Crown: Below gums
Teeth • Made of dentine • Covered in hard enamel • 4 types • Incisors • Canines • Premolars • Molars
Saliva • Dissolves food • 3 glands in mouth • Slippery from mucus • Amylase
Questions • Write SIX questions based on the material from today • Do not just do factual recall (definitions) • Use the words imagine, apply, create, build, etc.
Next step • Hand questions to someone else in the room • Solve the questions you get (5 minutes) • Hand back your questions when you are done
Travel Journal • Write a travel journal as if you are a piece of food (of your choosing) entering the mouth • Discuss what happens to you (chewed up, ebing moved by teeth, saliva getting on you and what it does) and what you see (tonsils, palate, uvula) on your way through the mouth