The Five Senses

Kindergarten · Science · Study Guide

Learn about sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — the five ways your body learns about the world.

Your body has five amazing tools called senses that help you learn about the world around you. Each sense uses a different body part to collect information.

Sight uses your eyes. Your eyes let you see colors, shapes, and things near and far. Hearing uses your ears. Your ears pick up sounds — like music, talking, or thunder. Smell uses your nose. Your nose can detect thousands of different smells, from flowers to cookies baking. Taste uses your tongue. Your tongue has tiny taste buds that detect sweet, salty, sour, and bitter flavors. Touch uses your skin. Your skin tells you whether something is soft, hard, hot, cold, rough, or smooth.

Sometimes we use more than one sense at the same time. When you eat an orange, you can see its color, smell its fresh scent, feel its bumpy skin, and taste its sweet juice all at once! Your senses work together to help you stay safe and enjoy the world. For example, you smell smoke to know there might be a fire, or you feel heat to know not to touch something hot.

Key terms

Senses
The five ways your body collects information about the world: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Sight
The sense you use with your eyes to see things.
Hearing
The sense you use with your ears to detect sounds.
Smell
The sense you use with your nose to detect odors.
Touch
The sense you use with your skin to feel textures and temperature.

Flashcards

Sight
The sense that uses your eyes to see colors, shapes, and things around you.
Hearing
The sense that uses your ears to hear sounds.
Smell
The sense that uses your nose to detect odors.
Taste
The sense that uses your tongue to tell if food is sweet, salty, sour, or bitter.
Touch
The sense that uses your skin to feel if something is soft, hard, hot, or cold.
Five Senses
Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — the five ways your body learns about the world.

Questions

  1. Which body part do you use for the sense of sight?

    1. Ears
    2. Nose
    3. Eyes
    4. Tongue
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    Answer: Eyes

    Your eyes are the body part you use for sight — they let you see the world around you.

  2. Your tongue is used for the sense of taste.

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    Answer: True

    Your tongue has taste buds that let you taste food and drinks.

  3. Which sense helps you hear a dog barking?

    1. Sight
    2. Hearing
    3. Smell
    4. Touch
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    Answer: Hearing

    Hearing is the sense that uses your ears to detect sounds, like a dog barking.

  4. You use your ___ to smell a flower.

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    Answer: nose

    Your nose is the body part used for the sense of smell.

  5. How many senses does your body have?

    1. 3
    2. 4
    3. 5
    4. 6
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    Answer: 5

    There are 5 senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

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