Our Five Senses

Seeing Hearing Touching Tasting Smelling

Seeing People see with their eyes to see the world around them. People can see different colors, recognize different shapes, objects, and even recognize many different people.

Hearing People hear with our ears. Hearing helps people to communicate with each other. Some people who have lost the ability to hear use their hands and sight to communicate with others.

Touching Skin helps people feel different textures and, temperatures. The most common way to touch is by using your fingertips, but every part of a person’s skin can feel pressure, pain, or temperature.

Tasting People use their tongue to taste the flavors of food and drinks. The tongue has different areas that like different tastes. There are areas for sweet, salty, bitter, and sour on separate parts of the tongue.

Smelling People use their noses to smell odors around them. People can smell many things, but their noses do not work as well as other animals, such as dogs. Some things smell good, like flowers and perfume, while other things smell bad, like skunks and rotten eggs.

What Can You See?

What Can You Hear?

What Can You Smell?

What Can You Taste?

Sweet Sour Salty Bitter

What Can You Touch?

Soft Sharp Hard ColdHot

IMPORTANT FACTS All of our senses are connected to our brain. Most of the time people are using more than one sense at a time, especially seeing and hearing. Sometimes people use all of their senses at the same exact time.

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