How can you tell they’ve got it: The Digestive Journey?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: 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. Or just try it together: If your child ate a sandwich, could they describe the journey it takes through their body — from mouth to stomach to intestines?

Science The Human Body Ages 7–9

The Digestive Journey

Your child can trace a sandwich through the body. The teeth chew it, the stomach churns it, and the small intestine takes the goodness into the blood.

In curriculum terms

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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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

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

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Try this together

If your child ate a sandwich, could they describe the journey it takes through their body — from mouth to stomach to intestines?

Where this sits on the map

Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.

Builds on

Basic Body Needsages 5–7Tracing the digestive journey builds on knowing the body needs food for energy

The Digestive Journeythis skill · ages 7–9

Unlocks

Types of Teethages 7–9Understanding tooth types enriches understanding of digestion starting in the mouth

The Digestive Systemages 8–9Enrichment knowledge tracing the digestive journey supports formal curriculum study of digestive system parts

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

Nearby on the map

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