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Inside the Long Tube: teacher key

Poop and Pee, grade 3 edition, written for 3rd grade. Follow food through your body to see how it ends up as poop, and how your kidneys make pee.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. What gives poop its brown color?
    • Acid
    • Bile (answer)
    • Salt
  2. What does the large intestine take out of the leftovers?
    • Water (answer)
    • Spit
    • Bile
  3. What do your kidneys clean?
    • Your food
    • Your blood (answer)
    • Your spit
  4. What is your bladder like?
    • A balloon (answer)
    • A hard rock
    • A tiny cube
  5. Dark yellow pee suggests what?
    • You ate too much
    • You are growing
    • You may need a drink (answer)

Words

  • bile: liver juice
  • bladder: pee bag
  • kidneys: blood cleaners