The Nervous System
Your child can trace a message in the body. Touch something hot, and a nerve rushes the signal to the brain. The brain answers, telling the hand to pull away.
In curriculum terms
Understand that the nervous system has two parts — the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and nerves that branch throughout the body — and that nerve signals travel at high speed to coordinate senses, thought, and movement
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Can your child explain how a message travels from their finger to their brain when they touch something hot, and then back to their hand to pull it away?
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).