Senses and Sensation - Mr. Turton
Databases:
Encyclopedia Resources:
Activities:
Senses Information:
Illusions/Visual Perception:
- Teen Health and Wellness Database - Passwords are on page 12 of your planner or see your IMC Director.
- eBook - Gale Encyclopedia of Science - Use the search box to the left to search for eye, ear, etc. OR hearing sight, etc. Great explanation and color photo that you can copy & paste into your 'book'. Password is on p. 12 of your student planner.
Encyclopedia Resources:
- Grolier Online - Passwords are on page 12 of your planner or see your IMC Director.
- World Book Online - Another great place to find a basic explanation - use 'ear' and 'eye' rather than hearing and sight. Great pictures!!! Passwords are on page 12 of your planner or see your IMC Director.
Activities:
- Coming to our Senses - Activities
- My Senses Tell Me - Lesson Plans on how to introduce the 5 senses to K-2 students.
- Preschool Rainbow - the senses activities - Early childhood education activities that involve young children in sensory experiences. Here you'll find lesson plans and ideas for exploring the five senses of touch, sight, smell, taste and sound.
- The Five Senses - lessons - Lesson plans for teaching children about the 5 senses.
Senses Information:
- BBC - Science - Human Body - Take the 'SENSES CHALLENGE', see a diagram of the nervous system, and more.
- Come to Your Senses - Mr. Potato Head takes us through an explanation of each of the senses. Includes pictures and ideas for activities.
- Explore the Brain and Spinal Cord - Scroll down and Click into 'sensory systems' for some wonderful diagrams, photos and lots of good information.
- Human Senses - Simple explanation with pictures
- KidsHealth - My Body pages - Explains the part of body (including eye, ear, brain, nose, skin, teeth, tongue) in a way that kids can understand. Lots of good drawings.
- My Body from KidsHealth - Click on the part of the body for a great explanation with pictures!
- Neuroscience for Kids - Website with many pictures and links that helps children understand in detail the 5 senses. It includes experiments and activities for children to do with each sense.
- Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World - From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- The Joy of Visual Perception - Everything you could ever possibly want to know about visual perception - and more. For Illusions - click on #3 Fun things in vision.
Illusions/Visual Perception:
- 74 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach -
- All About ColorBlindness - This web-site defines being colorblind and will educate you about the different types of colorblindness. It explains why you may be colorblind and what teachers, school nurses, and parents should know about being colorblind. You will learn about a new 'pediatric' color vision test for early detection. If you think you may be colorblind,you can test your color vision on-line.
- Eyetricks.com - Welcome to eyetricks.com, your source for optical illusions, brain teasers, games, 3D images and other mind-teasing oddities
- Illusions Gallery - University of Massachusetts Lowell -
- Ishihara Colorblind Test - Are you colorblind??? Find out here!
- Magic Eye - 3d vision - Contains great information about sight - and lots of illusions.
- Seeing More Than Your Eye Does - A fascinating website about sight and specifically about blindspots. Click on a link at the bottom of the page and you can map your own blindspot.