This 2-page 5th grade science check puts four digestive system tasks on one student page, with the answer key on page 2. Students label five numbered organs from a word bank, put the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine in order, and pick where most nutrients are absorbed. The last item asks for an organ that helps digestion but is not on the path of food. The key accepts liver, pancreas, gallbladder or salivary glands.
“Name the main organs of the digestive system and put them in the order food passes through them.”
Items 1 and 2 ask students to label five organs and number the same five in order.
“Tell the organs that food passes through from the organs that only help digestion.”
Item 4 asks for an organ such as the liver or pancreas, and item 3 asks where nutrients are absorbed.
A small body diagram with five numbered pointer lines, a word bank of five organs and a table to write each name beside its number.
Five boxes (stomach, mouth, small intestine, esophagus, large intestine) to number 1 to 5, with 1 as the first stop.
A four-option question on where most nutrients are absorbed, and a short answer asking for one organ that helps digestion without food passing through it.
The five labels, the order of the organs and the correct choice (small intestine), with a list of accepted answers for the short question.
Exit ticket
Hand it out in the last ten minutes of the unit. Item 4 shows quickly who still thinks every organ is on the path of food.
Before and after
Give item 1 on the first day of the unit and again on the last. Keep both copies so students can see what they have learned.
Ask for two
Once students have one helper organ for item 4, ask for a second. The key lists four that count.
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