
DIGITAL ISLAND
PEIRA'S RESEARCH EXPEDITION
Mission 1


Hey! Here are some tools that can help you:
Explorers,
You will spend and undertermined time at the island and we don't know the situations you will face.
Therefore, you need to have healthy habits and be ready to look after your body.
Overcome this training on the human body and get ready to travel to the island.
First Task
1. What is nutrition?
2. Create a mind map to show the four processes involved in nutrition and their systems.
3. Think about what you ate yesterday during the whole day: breakfast, lunch, snacks and
dinner. Analyze the nutrients in the food you had by completing the chart.
4. Explain the four types of nutrients and their functions by using visual thinking.
5. How do nutrients get to the blood?
Second Task
6. Apart from nutrients, our body needs something else to produce energy. What is it? Where
can we find it?
7. Explain in steps, the travel oxygen does from the air to the blood. Number the steps and
illustrate them with a drawing.
8. Why is the diaphragm important in respiration?
9. How are lungs and the heart protected?
Third Task
10. Design four characters to represent the four components in blood. Add bubbles so that
they can say what their function is.
11. Represent the circulatory system and label its parts. Use different materials like yarn with different colors as blood vessels.
12. What is the function of the heart?
Fourth Task
13. Where does the blood go to get clean? How does it get there?
14. How do kidneys work? What do they produce?
15. Where do waste substances go rom the kidney? Where are they stored?
16. What is the composition of that waste product? How do we spell it from our body?
FINAL TASK
Now that you know a lot of things about our body, you are ready to answer these challenging questions.
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What are the two things you need to get energy and explore the city?
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Design a healthy menu so you know which food you need to take.
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What can you do if you make a wound? How is you body going to repare that?
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How can you relax if you get anxious or nervous?
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Which useful information can the color of our urine give us? How much water can we drink before going to the toilet?