January 24th, 2020 Brown Girl Dreaming by: Jacqueline Woodson

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about:Learning About The Sense Organs

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Level#1

People enjoy tasting food, listening to music, touching a puppy's fur, smelling flowers, and watching movies. These activities are possible because of five important organs: tongue, nose, skin, eyes, and ears. Each sense organ has special parts and cells that allow it to work. These organs do more than help your enjoy the world. They send very important information to your brain every second. This information helps you to stay healthy.

1. What are the five senses (list them!)?





2. What do the sense organs allow people to do?





3. Where do the sense organs send very important messages to? 







Level#2

People enjoy tasting food, listening to music, touching a puppy's fur, smelling flowers, and watching movies. These activities are possible because of five important organs: tongue, nose, skin, eyes, and ears. Each sense organ has special parts and cells that allow it to work. These organs do more than help your enjoy the world. They send very important information to your brain every second. This information helps you to stay healthy. Your tongue is covered with sensory neurons that sense taste. These neurons are contained in taste buds. You have four kinds of taste buds; sour, sweet, salty, and bitter.

1. What do the sense organs send to your brain and how does this information help you?






2. What is your tongue covered with and what do sensory neurons do?






3. What are the sensory neurons that sense taste contained in and how many and what type of tastes are there?








Level#3

People enjoy tasting food, listening to music, touching a puppy's fur, smelling flowers, and watching movies. These activities are possible because of five important organs: tongue, nose, skin, eyes, and ears. Each sense organ has special parts and cells that allow it to work. These organs do more than help your enjoy the world. They send very important information to your brain every second. This information helps you to stay healthy. Your tongue is covered with sensory neurons that sense taste. These neurons are contained in taste buds. You have four kinds of taste buds; sour, sweet, salty, and bitter. Much of your sense of taste is really smell. As you eat, scents from your food enter your nose. Smells are picked up by sensory neurons in the nose. These cells have long, hair-like structures. The hair-like structures are connected to nerves. These nerves carry messages to the brain. The brain interprets the smell.

1. How many kinds of taste buds do you have and what are they?







2. What is much of your sense of taste, and how does your nose assist in this process?







3. Explain what picks up smells in your nose and the process that allows you to smell things.








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