Outline

The Five Senses

1. Introduction
a. Smell, touch, taste, sight, and sound
b. Smell – nose
c. Touch – hands
d. Taste – tongue
e. Sight – eyes
f. Hear - ears
2. Smell – the ability of humans and animals to perceive odors
a. To identify smells, you breathe or sniff in air to move it past smell detectors in the upper
part of your nose
b. Nose
i. Pleasant vs. unpleasant
ii. Sweet – honey, cookies
iii. Powerful – perfume
c. Can trigger memory
d. Can cause an emotional reaction
e. Can signal danger
3. Touch – to bring a bodily part into contact with, especially so as to perceive through a tactile
sense: handle or feel gently usually with the intent to understand or appreciate
a. Nerves in the skin detect them and tell us how hot or soft or painful they are
b. Hands (how things feel)
i. Rough – bark, sand paper, wood
ii. Bumpy – rocks, bubble wrap, legos
iii. Prickly – plant (cactus, rose stem)
1. painful
iv. Soft – fur, feathers, blanket
1. Smooth – paper, tabletops, marbles
v. Hard – table, plastic
c. Can cause an emotional reaction
d. Descriptive Words
i. Wet
ii. Cold
iii. Stiff
iv. Bumpy
v. Sticky
vi. Silky
4. Hear – the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations through the ear. The inability to
hear is deafness.
a. Sounds
i. Loud – great deal of volume
1. Unpleasant
 ii. Nature – birds chirping, water running
iii. Quiet
1. Calming
iv. Monotone – a continuing sound, especially of someone’s voice, that is
unchanging in pitch and without intonation
v. Deaf – unwilling or unable to hear or pay attention to something
5. Sight – the process, power, or function of seeing; specifically: the physical sense by which light
stimuli received by the eye are interpreted by the brain and constructed into a representation of
the position, shape, brightness, and usually color of objects in space.
a. Eye – images enter our eyes then go to our brain through our optic nerve
i. The dark hole at the center of the eye is the pupil. The pupil changes size to
control the amount of light that the lens focuses on the retina. It enlarges in
weak light to let more light in, and it shrinks in bright light.
ii. It allows you to see colors
1. Bright and dark
iii. It can be dim lighting
iv. You can be color blind/blind
v. You may need glasses to see better
b. Vocabulary Words
i. Bright
ii. Dark
iii. Dim
iv. Color blind
v. Pupil
vi. Retina
6. Taste – is the ability to detect flavor of substances
a. Tongue (how we taste)
i. Sour – lemon, grapefruit, sour candy
ii. Sweet – honey, candy, cake
iii. Salty – pretzel, potato chips, popcorn
iv. Bitter – cocoa, coffee
v. Warm – warm cookie, warm brownie
vi. Saliva
vii. Taste bud
viii. Unami
b. Can trigger memory
c. Classifying foods
i. Graph the food groups into what category you think it fits under