Kids Science Experiments - The Five Senses

See, Taste, Feel, Hear and Smell

How do we see things, taste things, feel things, hear things and smell things? Try a few of these fun and simple experiments to investigate how our five senses work.  

Good observers use all their senses - not just their eyes.  Observing your surroundings is an important skill in science as it helps you to be scientific.  Using our eyes and our ears helps us to make sense of the world around us and they also help us to learn about science.

See, Taste, Feel, Hear and Smell Experiments... Make a Long-Distance Call Tin Can Phones Bells of Big Ben Feeling the Vibration Eyes on the Ball Feeling the Difference Left vs. Right Quick Grip Ringing Ears Shoebox Surprise Funnel Heartbeat Wake Up Taste Buds Sound through a Tube Watch Sound Travel Spread the smell Seeing the Vibrations Sound Catcher Twitching Straw

Children should be curious about the things that they observe and explore in the world around them using all their senses.

Eyes & Ears - Our eyes use light energy and our ears use sound energy.  Working together they help us to recognise friends and to warn us of danger.

Taste - Our tongue can detect only four basic flavors.

1.  Sweet - detected at the tip of your tongue
2.  Salty - detected at the front sides of your tongue
3.  Sour - detected along the rear sides of your tongue
4.  Bitter - detected across the back of your tongue

See, Feel and Hear Vibrations – When something vibrates or shakes very, very quickly, it makes the air around it vibrate as well.

Also, sounds make vibrations that you can feel and sometimes see.

We hear a sound when vibrations travel to our ears.

Vibrations can be reflected (bounce back) like light.

Try closing your eyes and eat some Doritos.  What senses are you using?

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Kids Science Experiments and Science Projects Categories:

Absorption	Balancing & Gravity	Bending Light	Light Bounce and Reflections
Curious Colors	Electricity (Charging Up)	Floating & Sinking	Heat
Magnetic Pull	Matter	Mixing & Separating	Pressured
Causing a Reaction	Moving & Slowing	Surfaces Tensions	Come to your Senses
Temperature	Science Facts	Materials & Properties	Plants & Flowers