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The Digestive System: Follow Your Lunch with Pip

The Digestive System: Follow Your Lunch with Pip

Learn how the digestive system works, from teeth to intestines, as you follow Gus's lunch through his body with Pip the tiny explorer.

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What you'll learn

  • The jobs of incisors, canines and molars
  • How meat-eaters' and plant-eaters' teeth suit their food
  • Why sugar harms teeth and how brushing keeps them healthy
  • How the epiglottis and oesophagus get food safely to the stomach
  • How the stomach churns food with acid juices into a soup
  • How the small and large intestines take in goodness and water

What's inside

  1. Chomp Time!
  2. Tooth Squad
  3. Down the Hatch
  4. The Stomach Churn
  5. The Twisty Tubes
  6. Food Journey Challenge (10 questions)

About this adventure

This interactive digestive system game teaches children aged 7–10 how food travels through the body, from the mouth to the intestines, and what each part does along the way. It follows the KS2 Year 4 science curriculum.

Players shrink down with Pip and ride along inside Gus, a friendly giant, as he eats his lunch. They bite with incisors, tear with canines and grind with molars, match a lion's and a sheep's teeth to their food, and scrub sugar bugs off teeth. Next they close the epiglottis, a flap that keeps food out of the windpipe, and tap muscle rings to squeeze food down the oesophagus.

In the stomach they add acid juices and churn lunch into soup. In the small intestine they drag goodness into the villi, tiny finger-like bumps that pass it into the blood. Then the large intestine soaks up water and the waste is flushed away.

Questions and answers

How does the digestive system work, in simple words?

The digestive system breaks food down so your body can use it. Teeth and saliva start the job in the mouth, the oesophagus squeezes food down to the stomach, the stomach churns it into a soup, the small intestine passes goodness into the blood and the large intestine takes out water.

What are the three main types of teeth and what do they do?

Incisors, canines and molars are the three main types of teeth. Flat incisors at the front cut and bite, pointy canines grip and tear, and wide, bumpy molars at the back crush and grind food into small pieces.

Where is your stomach?

Your stomach sits high up in your body, just under your ribs on the left side, not behind your belly button. It is a stretchy, muscly bag that mixes food with strong acid juices.

What age is this digestive system game for?

The game is designed for children aged 7 to 10 and matches the Year 4 science topic on the digestive system and teeth. Everything is narrated aloud with captions, so younger players can follow along, and older children can use it for revision.

What does the game include and how long does it take?

It includes five short chapters on teeth, tooth care, swallowing, the stomach and the intestines, followed by a 10-question final challenge and a recap finale. Playing everything takes about 35 minutes, and players can start with any chapter.

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