The Digestive Journey
Trace the journey of food through the digestive system: food enters the mouth where teeth break it down and saliva begins digestion, travels down the oesophagus to the stomach, passes through the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed, and waste moves through the large intestine
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The Digestive Journey means practising the idea at the table with a simple hands-on check. We will demo once, then your child tries.
Materials: A simple body outline printout or drawing; Pencil and labels. 1. Say the goal of The Digestive Journey in plain words once. 2. Adult points to one organ or system and names its job in plain words. 3. Child labels three parts and says the job of each. 4. Fresh check: one fresh organ/system job. Record and stop. Done: three correct labels with a job sentence each. Proof: parent note of examples and results. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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Your Digestive System
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Your Digestive System supports The Digestive Journey. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Public KidsHealth page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
KidsHealth. “Your Digestive System.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- List the organs in order: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
- Describe what happens at each stage (teeth chew, stomach churns with acid, small intestine absorbs nutrients)
- State that the small intestine is where most nutrients pass into the blood, and the large intestine removes water from waste
“If your child ate a sandwich, could they describe the journey it takes through their body — from mouth to stomach to intestines?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- The Human Body
- Age range
- Ages 7–9