Digestion begins
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Draw the digestive tract as boxes and arrows with six parts.
Mouth, food pipe, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus.
2
Chew a plain cracker with a parent and describe the taste change.
It tastes slightly sweet after long chewing.
3
List three foods rich in starch from your kitchen.
Examples: bread, rice, potato, pasta.
4
Explain to someone why we chew food well.
Chewing breaks food into small pieces and mixes it with saliva.
5
Write a sentence using the words digestive juice and stomach.
Answers differ; the stomach makes its own digestive juice.