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People and Their Senses

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Learning Objectives

  • 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.
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?"

Vocabulary
Senses
The five ways our body learns about the worlde.g. I use my senses every day.
Sight
How we see using our eyese.g. I use sight to read this book.
Hearing
How we pick up sounds with our earse.g. I use hearing to listen to music.
Smell
How we notice things in the air with our nosee.g. I smell flowers with my nose.
Taste
How we notice flavors with our tonguee.g. I taste sweet apples on my tongue.
Touch
How we feel things with our skine.g. My skin feels soft when I touch a kitten.
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