Our Senses

We are aware of things that go around us. We understand these things through our senses that our body has. For each sense we use specific sense organ. Each of us has 5 sense organs that help us collect information from our surroundings.

Our 5 sense organs include nose, ear, tongue, eye and skin


Let us study about each one of them .

Eyes


  • Eyes helps us to see things.
  • With our eyes we are able to see our beautiful world.
  • Our sense of sight helps us to recognize people and differentiate object in terms of color, shape and size.

Nose

  • With our nose we smell things and recognize whether it is good or bad smell.
  • We should avoid smelling harmful substance which may be injurious for our health.

Skin

  • Skin is the largest organ of our body which is found all over the body.
  •  It helps us to sense temperature change such as hot, cold, warm etc., pressure or weight when pinched, pressed or poked, pain such as dull, sharp or throbbing , touch such as such pleasant (breeze, rain, care), unpleasant touch(slap).

Tongue

  • Tongue is a muscular organ.
  • There are taste buds on the tongue which tell us different type of tastes such as bitter, salty, sweet and sour.
  • Tongue not only help to taste food but also helps to chew the food and in speech.

Ears

  • Our ear helps us to hear and recognize different sounds.
  •  On hearing sound, we can guess the source of sound without seeing.
  • Example: We can easily identify our mom’s voice, sound of an airplane, sound of storm, sound of alarm sound of thundering etc.
  • Some sound we hear may be pleasant like music or unpleasant like noise.
Summary

Practice Exercise

Q1.Fill in the blanks.

a. We have _____________ sense organs.

b. We can sense four types of tastes: sweet, __________, __________, and salty.

c. _____________ is the largest sense organ we have.

d. We can identify many types of sound with our ______________.

e. We see this beautiful world with our ____________.

f. Our nose helps us ________________.

Q2. Write the names of any 4 things that you see in your classroom.

_______________________ ______________________

_______________________ ______________________

Q3. Write the taste of the following given food.

Chocolate - ____________________

Lemon - ____________________

Bitter gourd - ____________________

Chips - ____________________

Ice-cream - ____________________

Q4. Fill in the blanks.

a. ___________ helps us to sense temperature change such as hot, cold, warm etc.

b. Tongue is a _________________ organ.

c. We listen to music with our________________.

d. We watch television with our ______________.

e. We can ______________ with our nose.

f. There are _________ buds all over the tongue.

g. With our eyes we differentiate object in terms of color, __________ and size.

Q5. List out five sense organs and things they help us to do.

Q6. Match