My Five Senses
I learn about the world by looking, listening, smelling, tasting and touching.
Scientists find things out by noticing. Your body has five super tools for noticing, called your senses. Your eyes see, your ears hear, your nose smells, your tongue tastes and your skin feels.
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Did you know?
- Your tongue has thousands of tiny taste buds.
- Your skin is the biggest part of your body, and it can feel hot, cold, soft and bumpy.
- A dog’s nose can smell many, many times better than a person’s.
- You can tell where a sound comes from because you have two ears.
Try it! Hands-on activities
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Talk about it
Questions to ask while you read, play or walk.
- Close your eyes. What can you hear right now?
- What is the softest thing in this room? The bumpiest?
- Which sense would you use to tell if milk has gone bad?
For teachers
What this topic supports:
- Head Start ELOF: Scientific Inquiry, using the senses to observe and describe
- NGSS science practice (K–2): make observations to collect data
- NGSS 1-PS4-1 (preview): sounds come from vibrating materials, which we hear with our ears