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How Do You Know? Your Senses Tell You. (The Senses).(how your senses help you perceive information from the environment; science experiment)
Millions of people in the United States go to the movies every week. You may be one of them. At the movies, your eyes see the pictures on the screen. You hear the words and music with your ears. You smell the popcorn with your nose, and taste it with your tongue. You feel the chair cushion against your skin. You use your five senses. They help you to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
Your senses help you learn about the things around you. Messages from your senses are sent to your brain. Your brain is like a busy telephone system. It gets millions of messages, and then it sends messages to parts of your body. The messages help you understand what you are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
Experiments for Your Senses
Work in small groups.
Smell: For this experiment, you will need pieces of various foods. Use an apple, orange, a cookie, a slice of bread, and a carrot.
Blindfold a classmate without letting the person see the foods. Put a piece of food on a plate. Have the person smell the piece of food and guess what food it is.
Taste: Different areas of your tongue sense different tastes. Those areas are shown ...
- We have five senses.(teaching students)
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- Our five senses.
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- Life with a sense of loss.
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...We take our five senses for granted and it...ROBERTS discovers OUR senses help us to understand...without one of their senses and others lose them...injury find their sense of smell is affected...shows sight is the sense we fear losing most...without one of their senses. ...
- SPECIAL REPORT: Senses working overtime.
- Magazine article from: In-Store Dowdy, Clare July 12, 2006 700+ words
...another assault on our senses than we are to be turned...emotionally engaging. And the senses help create emotions," says...on, so to speak. The sense of smell may be under...most interactive of the senses is touch, and designers...
- It's time for pizza.(using of senses)
- Magazine article from: Weekly Reader, Edition 1 (including Science Spin) October 1, 2003 700+ words
...We like pizza. How do we know? Our five senses tell us so. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How Do Our Senses Help Us? We see a round pizza. We see it with...Activity Page Name-- People Use Their Senses The picture shows a country fair. It shows...
- Ciboul, Adele. The Five Senses.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Rochman, Hazel October 15, 2006 700+ words
Ciboul, Adele. The Five Senses. Illus. by Clementine Collinet...pictures and photos look closely at each sense in turn, asking questions ("What are eyelids for?") and showing how the senses help "you to find out about the world around...
- The sounds spring brings.
- Magazine article from: Weekly Reader, Edition 2 (including Science Spin) March 26, 2004 700+ words
...spring? Invite students to think about their senses. What are your senses? How do your senses help you? Invite students to think about spring senses. What things does spring bring that you sense? Invite and Check Predictions Look at the cover...
- Sniffing out successful network monitoring.(Industry Trend or Event)
- Magazine article from: InfoWorld Neel, Dan April 23, 2001 700+ words
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- Animal instinct: wildlife officials are amazed that few animals died in the...
- Magazine article from: Weekly Reader, Edition 4 (including Science Spin) February 25, 2005 700+ words
...I think animals can sense disaster. They know...that animals have better senses of hearing, smell...humans do. Those sharp senses help warn animals when natural...Weekly Reader. "The senses of certain species are...example, have a stronger sense of smell than humans...
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