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People and Their Senses

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What you will learn

  • 1Name the five senses
  • 2Match each sense to the body part that does it
  • 3Give an example of how you use each sense every day
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Mini Lesson

Close your eyes for a moment. What can you hear? What can you smell? Our body has five amazing tools that help us learn about everything around us. We call them our five senses.

Sight — using our eyes

  • Our eyes let us see colors, shapes, light, and movement.
  • We use sight to read, watch, and find our way around.
  • Example: You see the bright yellow sun in the sky.

Hearing — using our ears

  • Our ears pick up sounds — loud or quiet, near or far.
  • We use hearing to listen to music, conversations, and warnings like car horns.

Smell — using our nose

  • Our nose detects smells floating in the air.
  • Smell warns us of danger — like smoke — and helps us enjoy food.

Taste — using our tongue

  • Our tongue can taste sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors.
  • Taste and smell work together — that is why food tastes bland when you have a cold.

Touch — using our skin

  • Our skin feels texture (rough or smooth), temperature (hot or cold), and pain.
  • Touch tells us if something is safe to hold or too hot to touch.

Words to know

Senses

The five ways our body learns about the world

e.g. I use my senses every day.

Sight

How we see using our eyes

e.g. I use sight to read this book.

Hearing

How we pick up sounds with our ears

e.g. I use hearing to listen to music.

Smell

How we notice things in the air with our nose

e.g. I smell flowers with my nose.

Taste

How we notice flavors with our tongue

e.g. I taste sweet apples on my tongue.

Touch

How we feel things with our skin

e.g. My skin feels soft when I touch a kitten.

The five senses and their body partsA face with labels pointing to eyes, ears, nose, mouth with tongue, and a hand for skin.The five senseseyesearsnosetongueskin
Each sense has its own body part.
Which body part goes with which senseFive rows matching each sense to its body part.Sense → body partsight→eyeshearing→earssmell→nosetaste→tonguetouch→skinFive senses, five body parts!
Match each sense to the body part that does it.
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Ask yourself: "Which body part do I use to see? To hear? To smell? To taste? To touch?"

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