How can you tell they’ve got it: Nutrient Transport in Animals?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Describe how nutrients from digested food pass through the wall of the small intestine into the blood; Explain that blood transports dissolved nutrients and water to all parts of the body; Connect the digestive system and circulatory system as working together to deliver nourishment. Or just try it together: Can your child explain how the sandwich they ate at lunch actually gets to their muscles — from the stomach into the blood and then around the body?

Science Organisms & Life Processes Ages 10–11

Nutrient Transport in Animals

Your child can explain how lunch reaches the muscles. Goodness from food passes through the gut wall into the blood. The blood then carries it round the body.

In curriculum terms

Describe how nutrients and water are transported within animals, including the role of the circulatory system in delivering nutrients from digestion

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Describe how nutrients from digested food pass through the wall of the small intestine into the blood
Explain that blood transports dissolved nutrients and water to all parts of the body
Connect the digestive system and circulatory system as working together to deliver nourishment

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Try this together

Can your child explain how the sandwich they ate at lunch actually gets to their muscles — from the stomach into the blood and then around the body?

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Builds on

The Digestive Systemages 8–9Must know digestive system before understanding nutrient absorption into blood

The Circulatory Systemages 10–11Must know circulatory system before understanding how it transports nutrients

Organ Systems Vocabularyages 9–11Describing nutrient and water transport within animals requires organ system vocabulary

Nutrient Transport in Animalsthis skill · ages 10–11

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Curriculum alignment

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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S4U03low confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Understanding strand

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