Nutritional Physiology & Enzyme Digestion
Integrated Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
Your child can chart how food moves through the human digestive tract, tracking mechanical versus chemical breakdown of macronutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins).
In real life
Chewing a plain cracker until it turns sweet, your child explains that the enzyme in saliva is already breaking the starch into sugar. They can trace tonight's dinner through every stage of the digestive tract.