Our Senses
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The world is filled with so many different sights, colours and shapes. Some are light and bright and some are dull and dark. Find out how you use your sense of sight to see all of these wonderful things all around. Discover how blind people rely on their other four senses, how opticians can improve your vision with glasses or contact lenses and how minibeasts use their sense of sight to survive. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the straightforward text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to see things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact with the world around them through their senses.
There are so many tasty things in the world - some are sweet, some are salty; some are sour and some are bitter. Find out how your sense of taste allows you to try out all these incredible flavours. Discover how the senses of taste and smell are linked, how octopuses taste with the end of their tentacles and how people from around the world enjoy different flavours of food and drink. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the straightforward text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to taste things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact with the world around them through their senses.
The world is filled with many different smells - some are nice and some are nasty; some are spicy and some are sweet. Find out how you use your sense of smell to sniff out all these incredible smells all around. Discover how smell and taste are linked, how smells can warn you of danger and how specially trained dogs can use their keen sense of smell to find and rescue people in the snow. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the straightforward text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to smell things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact with the world around them through their senses.
You hear sounds all the time - some are high screeches and some are low rumbles; some are loud bangs and some are soft whispers. Find out how you use your sense of hearing to listen to all these incredible sounds. Discover how people who can't hear use sign language to communicate, how a bat uses echoes to locate things around it and how some minibeasts hear things through their legs. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the simple text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to hear things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact with the world around them by using their senses.