The Five Senses
Explore the five senses in detail: sight uses eyes to detect light, hearing uses ears to detect sound, touch uses skin to feel pressure and temperature, taste uses the tongue to detect flavours, and smell uses the nose to detect odours
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The Five Senses means matching each sense to its body part and what it detects. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes matching senses to body parts, trying safe samples, then checking one fresh match.
Match five familiar senses to body parts and kinds of information.
Match five familiar senses to body parts and kinds of information.
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Match senses to body parts and what they detect.
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Color Vision
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Color Vision supports hands-on exploration for The Five Senses. Not every lab worksheet.
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Public PhET Interactive Simulations page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult should preview and guide the learner.
PhET Interactive Simulations. “Color Vision.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- Name all five senses and match each to the correct body part
- Describe what each sense detects (e.g. eyes detect light, ears detect sound waves)
- Give an example of using each sense in everyday life (e.g. smelling food cooking, feeling hot water)
“If you blindfolded your child and gave them something to smell, taste, and touch, could they name which sense they were using each time and which body part does the job?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- The Human Body
- Age range
- Ages 5–10
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