The Journey of Lunch: teacher key

Poop and Pee, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. Trace a meal from your mouth to the toilet, and find out how your body makes both poop and pee.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

What gives poop its brown color?
- Bile (answer)
- Beets
- Spit
What do the kidneys do?
- Store bile
- Clean the blood (answer)
- Hold poop
Which tube carries pee out of the body?
- The urethra (answer)
- The rectum
- The ureter
What does the word peristalsis name?
- A kind of bile
- A tube for pee
- Muscles squeezing food along (answer)
What happens to many children?
- Making cube poop
- Having an accident (answer)
- Having four kidneys
Why might pee be dark yellow?
- It has less water in it (answer)
- It has more bile
- It came from the liver