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The Five Senses: Hearing
Introduction:
You are familiar with the senses everyday of
your life. Almost every waking hour of your life
you are using at least one of your five senses.
Last week we talked about the five senses of
hearing, taste, touch, smell, and sight.
Today we will use our ears to learn about how
we sense our world through hearing. If you
close your eyes, you are still able to have an
idea of what is going on around you. Some
sounds you can actually feel the vibrations, but
with other sounds you need to use your sense
of hearing to tell where they are coming from.
We are also going to learn more about taste. This will be a quick experiment to test how well you can
recognize certain synthetic foods. If we have time, we will do this at the end.
Focus Questions:
How can we use hearing to sense the world?
How do you recognize specific senses?
Purpose:
Why do you think hearing is important to everyday life?
Hearing: Why is the ear important?
Sounds are very important to bats. They use sound to detect
each other, and also insect prey. Bats ears differ depending on
the species.
Look at the images of the bats to the right. Bats use many
different types of ears to help collect sounds. Today we are going
to start by building bat ears, and testing how they collect sound.
Hypothesis: Why is the shape of the ear important?
Conclusion:
Hearing: How can you tell where an object is with only hearing?
Hearing is a very important sense for helping detect what is going on in the environment. Not
all people were born with the gift of sight. If you did not have sight, how would you sense
things around you?
I will move an object around the room which makes sound. You will try using both of your ears
to tell which direction the object is coming from. Then, you will cover one ear and try it again.
Do you need both ears to tell which direction the sound is coming from?
Hypothesis: How can you tell where an object is with only hearing?
Conclusion: