While listening to the Senses Song (MP3), students learn the five senses and examples of how you use each sense daily.
While watching the Senses Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the five senses. The senses song teaches Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound.
Using this Five Senses Mini Pack, students learn about Five Senses through ten fun worksheets and two activities.
Your brain's message center
In 4th grade, the five senses grow up into a body system. Kids learn that eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin are receptors that collect information and send it along nerves to the brain. The brain sorts it out, stores memories and tells the body how to react, like yanking a hand away from a hot pan. They compare how animals use senses to survive too: an owl's huge eyes, a dog's powerful nose, a bat's echoes. The click moment comes when kids realize the brain does the "seeing," and the eyes are just collecting light.
Kids carry the best lab equipment around with them. These moves put it to work.
Line kids up as receptor, nerve, brain and muscle. The "receptor" feels a tap, passes a note along the nerve line, the "brain" decides and the "muscle" acts. Acting out the pathway makes the system concrete.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withFive Senses Mini PackWorkbooksOpen it →Show an animal and kids name the sense it depends on most and why it helps it survive. Mix animals daily. Quick retrieval with new examples deepens understanding.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withSenses Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Play the Senses Song and have kids point to each body part as it's named, then name the receptor. It's a fast, catchy review before a lab.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withSenses Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Science you can taste, touch and hear!
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They learn how sense organs collect information and send it through nerves to the brain, which processes it and decides how the body responds. They also compare how animals use senses.
Sense organs have receptors that detect light, sound, touch, smell or taste. Nerves carry those signals to the brain, which turns them into what we see, hear and feel.
Many animals depend on one sense more than people do. Dogs track by smell, owls hunt at night with sharp eyes and hearing, and bats use echoes to find food.
Try a reaction-time ruler drop or a blindfolded taste test. Both show how senses and the brain work together.
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