1. The Five Senses Emily Kremer Kristin Law Ashley Hicks Phillip Floor Josh Ferguson

2. Sight What You Need To Know: Your eyes work like a video camera sending pictures to your brain of your surroundings. Because your eye is so important and sensitive it has many features which protect it such as eyelashes, eyelids, eyebrows, and tears. Nice To Know: Most people blink every 2-10 seconds without even noticing! If you only had one eye everything would appear to be two-dimensional Essential Skills: Students should learn how to properly take care of their eyes to ensure that they have the best sight possible!

3. Sound What You Need To Know: Your ears have two purposes: to hear and to help you keep your balance. There are many different parts of your ear that work together so you are able to hear. Nice To Know: Sound travels at the speed of 1130 feet per second, or 770 miles per hour. The ear never stops working, even when people are asleep. The ear continues to hear sounds, but the brain shuts them out. Essential Skills: When you are teaching it is important for you students to hear you, and if they are taught young about this sense they will be able to listen attentively and receive and understand more material.

4. Smell Need to Know: The process of smell: Begins as you breath air→ Enters Naval Cavity→ Air passes through olfactory bulb→Smell fits into nerve cell→ Smell recognized→ Brain interprets smell Nice to Know: Dogs have 1 million smell cells per nostril and their smell cells are 100 times larger than humans! If your nose is at its best, you can tell the difference between 4000-10,000 smells! Essential Skills: While learning the sense of smell, children should also learn important information about the other four senses and how they are processed because some of our senses are interconnected. Ex: Smell & Taste

5. Taste Need to know: There are 4 different taste sensors on your tongue. The 4 basic tastes are bitter, sweet, sour, and salty. These tastes are perceived through taste buds Nice to know: The complete inability to taste is called ageusia, the reduced ability to taste is called hypogeusia, and the enhanced ability to taste is called hypergeusia. The tongue of a chameleon can extend to 200% of its body length. Essential Skills: In conjunction with learning about taste, students should learn about the other four senses that help the brain process our surrounding environment.

6. Touch What You Need To Know: A child’s sense of touch is all throughout their body. The sense of touch originates from nerve endings in the bottom layer of one’s skin. These nerve endings are able to alert feelings of hot, cold, pain, pressure, etc. Nice To Know: There are more than 100 touch receptors in each fingertip. These receptors make things, like reading Braille, possible for the vision impaired. Essential Skills: With the awareness of the sense of touch, students will be able to remain safe as these receptors alert common dangers like things being too hot for one to touch

7. Resources http://library.thinkquest.org/3750/hear/hear.html http://library.thinkquest.org/3750/sight/sight.html http://library.thinkquest.org/3750/touch/touch.html http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tasty.html http://canadaonline.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1%2FXJ&z Ti=1&sdn=canadaonline&cdn=newsissues&tm=5&f=00 &tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&st=37&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sedl.org%2Fscimath%2Fpasopartners%2Fsenses%2Fw elcome.html http://canadaonline.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1%2FXJ&z Ti=1&sdn=canadaonline&cdn=newsissues&tm=5&f=00 &tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&st=37&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sedl.org%2Fscimath%2Fpasopartners%2Fsenses%2Fw elcome.html