The Human Body
The Five Senses
Grade Level: 4 
The Challenge:
After going through this WebQuest you should be able to name the five senses of the
body. You will know the parts of the
body involved in the different senses and how you use them in your daily
life. Your challenge will be to label
the sensory body parts on a human body diagram that you will be given and pick
a sense that you would like to have super powers associated with. You will need to find out about each of the
senses and chose one to give super powers to.
You will need to write a one-page paper explaining why you would want to
have that sense extremely strong. Make sure you give good reasons why you would
benefit from having that sense stronger than the rest of your senses.
General Information:
There are five senses in the
human body, sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. You use these senses doing everyday
things. You use both sight and sound to
cross a street, you use taste to eat your lunch, you use smell to tell when someone is baking in your house, and you use touch
to pick up the pencil you dropped in class.
You tend to take for granted all the time you use your senses through
out the day.
Our SENSES tell
us:
1. What is out in the
environment?
2. How much is out there.
3. Is there more or less of
something than before.
4. Where is it? Where we are.
5. Is our environment changing
in time or place?
6. What its like, sight, sounds
smells?
7. What different things feel
like?
You are going to need to do a little research on all of the senses before deciding which one you would like to give super powers too.
Click here to find out more
about the 5 senses:
http://freda.auyeung.net/5senses/
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~andrea1/senses.htm
or
try http://www.yahooligans.com. And type in five senses to do a search
After you have found out the basics of all 5 senses you will need to choose one sense that you would like to give super powers to, make more powerful than the rest of your senses. Once you have chosen one sense you will need to learn more about that one sense and how you would use these super natural powers.
The 5 senses: http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/etc/SENSES/#6
http://www.brainpop.com/health/senses/
The Ear: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/ear_SW.html
The Eye: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/eye_SW.html
The Nose: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/nose_SW.html
The Skin: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/skin_SW.html
The tongue: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/tongue_SW.html
Or you can try http://www.yahooligans.com
and type in the sense you would like to research.
After researching the sense you decided to give
super powers to. Try this quiz to see how much you have learned about the
senses.
http://www.queendom.com/mindgames/quizdom/quiz55.html
Now that you have learned about the senses and
really looked at the sense you would like to give supernatural powers to. Go write a one-page paper telling me how you
would benefit from these senses and what you would be able to do with them that
you can’t do with your other senses.