Activities in this teaching pack include an assessment test to assess understanding of how food is digested in the human body complete with a marking scheme and matching record sheet and a worksheet to help the children assess their own progress for the National Curriculum programmes of study about identifying and describing the functions of some of the different parts of the digestive system and the importance of eating foods as part of a healthy lifestyle..

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the functions of some of the different parts of the digestive system and the importance of eating foods as part of a healthy lifestyle. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.