Sense Organs

Looking Around 2 — Our Body. The five sense organs match this topic.

• We have five sense organs — eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin.
• Each sense organ helps us know something different about the world.
• We must take care of our sense organs to keep them healthy.

Verbal: Eyes help us see, ears help us hear, nose helps us smell, tongue helps us taste, and skin helps us feel touch.

Symbolic: Eyes → see. Ears → hear. Nose → smell. Tongue → taste. Skin → touch.

Level 1 — Eyes

Help us see colours and shapes.

Level 1 — Ears

Help us hear sounds.

Level 1 — Nose

Helps us smell things.

Level 2 — Tongue

Helps us taste sweet, sour, salty foods.

Level 2 — Skin

Helps us feel hot, cold, soft, rough.

Which sense organ helps you know a lemon is sour?

Step 1 — Taste is felt using the **tongue**.
Step 2 — Tasting the lemon shows it is **sour**.
Step 3 — So the tongue is the sense organ used here.
Answer: The tongue helps us taste that a lemon is sour.

• Which organ helps us see?
• Which organ helps us smell?
• Name all five sense organs.

Stretch: Which sense organ would you use to tell if water is hot or cold? Why is it important to protect our eyes?

Revision tip: Close your eyes for a minute and describe what you can still sense using your other senses.

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