The Digestive System
Your child can trace a sandwich through the body. The mouth chews it, the stomach breaks it down, and the small intestine takes in the goodness.
In curriculum terms
Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the human digestive system: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
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Can your child trace the journey of a sandwich through the body — from chewing in the mouth all the way to the intestines?
Where this sits on the map
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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).