Follow a Body System
Grades 3–5 · Student activity
Explain digestion, absorption and waste removal as different jobs.
Use this activity after the teacher-selected reading. Check your ideas against that source.
Try it your way
Tell your answer to a partner, draw on the student page, or write here. Someone can read the question and record your words.
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Help me get started
“I notice ____. The source shows ____. I still need to check ____.”
You can point to the source while someone helps you say or write your answer.
- Mouth → esophagus → stomach → small intestine → large intestine
- Label every arrow: food moves to
- Grades 3–5: nutrients enter blood / waste continues
- Evidence and explanation
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Check my thinking
What am I looking for?
I can distinguish breaking down food from absorbing nutrients and removing waste.
One possible response
Digestion breaks food down; the small intestine absorbs nutrients; remaining waste passes onward to leave the body.
This is a teacher-created example, not a quotation or the only possible answer. Compare it with the selected source and your own response.
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