BTEC Health & Social Care Unit 3 Anatomy & Physiology B6 Digestive System

This is a complete resource package, which consists of a 16 page, interactive student booklet for the BTEC Health & Social Care Level 3 Unit 3 Anatomy and Physiology B6 Digestive body system and health;
There is a plan of delivery from Sept 2024, a programme of work and an end of topic exam paper and mark scheme to test progress to complete the package.

Along with this, is the 7 engaging PowerPoints and additional work sheet tasks and activities that go with it, such as a card match activity.

PowerPoints are well designed and have embedded videos in them, with booklet pages for students to make notes and example of possible exam questions that may be asked, to get them thinking and applying new knowledge.

The complete B6 part of the spec has been covered, in detail, see below:-
The structure, function and main disorders of the digestive system
• Alimentary canal – Oral cavity, salivary glands, oesophagus, stomach, duodenum (beginning of the small intestine), ileum colon (large intestine).
• The role of the liver and pancreas,
• The role of the digestive system in the breakdown and absorption of food materials, ingestion, peristalsis, digestion, absorption, egestion.
• The role of enzymes in digestion – amylases, proteases, lipases, sites of secretion, role in digestion.
• The role of microorganisms in the gut.
• Major products of digestion – peptides and amino acids, sugars, glycerol and fatty acids, roles in the body, storage of excess fats and carbohydrates, deamination of excess amino acids and the fate of end products, the role of the liver, the role of the kidneys.
• Absorption of food – into blood, into lacteals, the role of villi and microvilli.

Dysfunctions of the digestive system
• Ulcers
• Hepatitis
• celiac disease

Diagnostic techniques
• Endoscopy and biopsy
• Blood tests

There is a Facebook group with 5,200 health and social care sharing ideas and resources, come and join the big subject team :-)

Please leave me a review, what do you think?

Good luck in your teaching :-)

#hscresources