Can you name the five basic senses? If you guessed sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing, then you are right! The human body is incredible and the way we receive sensory information is extremely complex. To help you understand how the human body and the five senses work, check out the websites listed below!

All About Senses

• Kids' Health Topics: Your senses
• Fun Senses Facts for Kids
• The Senses
• The General and Special Senses (pdf)
• Our five senses
• What are the five senses of the human body?
• Human Senses
• My Body My Sense: A Teacher's Guide (pdf)
• Sense and Perception

Touch

Human skin has special receptors that send touch signals to the brain to process.

• How do we sense touch?
• The senes of touch
• Neuroscience for Kids: Touch Experiments
• The Skin and the Sense of Touch
• Nervous system - Touch
• Anatomy of the Skin
• Touch: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Senses Experiment: Brain Box
• Sensory Development and the Importance of Touch
• All About Touch
• Hands On Research: The Science of Touch
• Sense of Touch Lesson for Kids
• The Skin and the Sense of Touch

Sight

The eye turns light into image signals for the brain to decipher and process.

• How do we see?
• Why Vision Is the Most Important Sense Organ
• The Senses: Sight
• The Senses: Vision
• The Eye and the Sense of Sight
• Vision - Introduction to Psychology
• The Five Senses - Sight
• NeuroScience for Kids: Vision Explained
• Anatomy of the Eye
• The Sensing Eye and the Perceiving Visual Cortex

Hearing

The ear uses fluids and bone to turn sound waves into signals for the brain to understand.

• The Ear and the Sense of Hearing
• Our Sense of Hearing
• Hearing - Introduction to Psychology
• Hearing With Your Ears, Listening With Your Brain
• Hearing Experiments
• How Hearing works
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Ear
• HEARING AND PERCEPTION
• About Hearing
• How the ear works
• The Seven Types of Hearing Tests

Smell

Chemicals and other stimulants in the air signal the brain to decipher these as smells.

• The Nose and the Sense of Smell
• Smell Disorders
• Curious Kids: How do we smell?
• TEDed - How do we smell?
• Making Sense of Scents: Smell and the Brain
• How do you smell?
• Your Nose
• The Sense of Smell: A Powerful Sense
• The Science of Smelling
• How does the sense of smell work?
• All about Sents
• Nervous system - Smell
• Psychology and Smell
• How fragrance and smell work
• Facts: Taste and Smell
• The chemistry of smelling

Taste

The all mighty tongue is the main organ that uses small taste buds to distinguish flavors.

• The Tongue and the Sense of Taste
• How does our sense of taste work?
• Taste and Smell
• What Are Taste Buds?
• The Science of Taste
• Physiology of Taste
• The Sense of Taste
• Boundless Biology - Taste and Smell
• How we sense taste
• The Bittersweet Truth of Sweet and Bitter Taste Receptors
• How do we sense taste?
• The Science of Taste: How Does Taste Work, Anyway?
• Do Different Parts of the Tongue Taste Different Things?