5 Senses

5 Senses

Our senses are pretty powerful.

Click on the labels to find out more about each sense.

sight

hearing

smell

taste

touch

Sight

Sight is the ability of the eyes to see things around you. Your
eyes can see colour, size, shape, brightness and depth. The
sense of sight is the most complex sense.

We see with our eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi2Xb56FpR4&t=156s

Hearing

Hearing is the ability to detect sounds. Humans and other
animals use their ears to hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMXoHKwWmU8

We hear with our ears.

Smell

You smell with your nose.

The sense of smell is the ability to detect and identify odors.
The sense of smell can keep you safe. Eg. It can warn you
not to eat something that smells rotten and it can help you
detect smoke before you see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7T1t cJ7gA

Taste

Your tongue has special parts that pick up flavour, these parts
are bundled together as taste buds. Taste buds help you
taste different flavours, like sweet, salty, sour, bitter and
“umami”. “Umami” is a rich savoury flavour.

You taste with your tongue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4rdqXXzPGU

Touch

With our hands and the skin all over our bodies, we can
touch and feel things around us. Our hands and skin can feel
if things are hot or cold, soft or hard, rough or smooth, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qag5a-sfos

We touch things with our hands
and skin.