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Your senses.

Touch. Your skin gives you a sense of touch. So even when you're not looking, you can tell if something is soft and warm, or smooth and cold. In fact, your skin is so sensitive, it can automatically help you warm up. Or cool down. What will your skin feel today?

Sight. Your eyes are specially designed to see what's around you. They make sure you can see things that are very close, and far away. But they need plenty of light to do it. Hey! And sometimes they need a little extra help to make the picture even clearer. What will your eyes see today?

Smell. Your nose is specially designed to detect smells. It can tell the difference between nice smells, yum, and nasty ones, eww. What will your nose smell today?

Hearing. Your ears are specially designed to hear what's going on around you. Even when you're hearing lots of things at once, your brain is very good at recognising different sounds. Your ears can hear sounds that are very quiet and they're always working. Even when you're asleep. Good morning. MORNING! What will your ears hear today?

Taste. Your mouth and tongue, give you your sense of taste. So you can instantly tell what tastes bitter from what’s sweet. Everybody knows the tastes they like, and the ones they don't. But flavours can be combined in different ways to create new and surprising tastes. What will your mouth taste today?

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Exploring My Sense Of Sight

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• Large plastic / wooden bowl / container

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Exploring My Sense Of Hearing Through Music

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What are the five senses and their functions?

The human body is equipped with five remarkable senses that allow us to experience and interact with the world around us. These senses are essential for processing information and understanding our environment.

• Sight (vision) - The sense of sight is performed by our eyes, enabling us to see and interpret the shapes, colors, and movement of objects.
• Hearing (audition) - Our ears are responsible for the sense of hearing, allowing us to perceive sounds and vibrations in our surroundings.
• Smell (olfaction) - The sense of smell is located in our noses, allowing us to detect and differentiate various scents and odors.
• Taste (gustation) - The sense of taste involves our mouths and allows us to identify different flavors such as sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.
• Touch (tactile) - Our skin, particularly our hands, enables us to feel pressure, temperature, texture, and pain, providing us with the sense of touch.

Together, these five senses work harmoniously to help us navigate the world, interact with others, and make sense of the stimuli we encounter in our daily lives.

What are the five main senses humans use to observe and understand the world around them?

In understanding the world around us, humans rely on five main senses: sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. To explore these senses more deeply, engaging in interactive activities can enhance our knowledge and appreciation of how we perceive the world.

In this activity, you will label the Faces Activity Sheet and Identifying The Senses Activity Sheet using scissors, glue, and a pencil. By physically engaging with the materials, you can enhance your understanding of how each sense contributes to our perception.

Through the Sense Of Sight Activity Sheet and various objects like balls or beanbags, a blindfold, and a bowl, you can delve into the intricacies of how we see the world around us. By experiencing this sense firsthand, you can appreciate the complexities of visual perception.

Using plastic pots, water, marbles, rice, a coin, and shredded paper, you can engage in activities that highlight the nuances of hearing. By listening to different sounds and textures, you can deepen your understanding of how sound shapes our perception.

With glasses, water, and utensils for creating music, you can explore the auditory world in a creative way. By experimenting with sound and vibrations, you can gain insight into the role of hearing in our daily experiences.

Through activities involving sliced onion, lemon, orange, cinnamon, and coffee granules, you can investigate the nuances of scent perception. By engaging with different aromas, you can deepen your appreciation for the sense of smell.

By combining sweet and salty foods like chocolate, strawberries, peanut butter, olives, and cheese, you can explore the diverse flavors our taste buds can detect. Through this culinary exploration, you can gain a deeper understanding of the sense of taste.

Using a cardboard box and objects with various textures, such as a spoon, soft toy, Lego, and apple, you can engage in tactile experiences to understand the sense of touch. By feeling different surfaces and shapes, you can enhance your perception of the world through touch.

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Welcome to Hands-On Education, where we strive to make learning fun and engaging for primary school teachers and home educators alike! Today, we'll be discussing the science national curriculum, STEM activities, and the five senses topic, which is a best selling year one topic. This is a great topic for both primary education and home education, as it lends itself well to hands-on learning and science fun.

To start off, let's talk about the science national curriculum. In the UK, the national curriculum for science is broken down into four key areas: biology, chemistry, physics, and working scientifically. Working scientifically involves teaching children how to use scientific methods to answer questions and solve problems. The five senses topic fits in perfectly with this area of the curriculum, as it allows children to explore and investigate the world around them using their senses.

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) activities are a fantastic way to get children engaged in learning about their five senses. Here are seven fun activities that you can do at home or in the classroom:

• Start by having the children identify the five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. This will help them understand the purpose of the activities and relate them to their own experiences.
• For sight, have the children explore their surroundings and identify different colours, shapes, and patterns. You can also play games like "I Spy" or create a scavenger hunt where they have to find objects based on their colour or shape.
• When exploring hearing, have the children close their eyes and identify different sounds around them. You can also play a game where they have to guess the sound or create their own musical instruments using household items.
• To explore hearing through music, play different genres of music and have the children identify the instruments used and how they make them feel. You can also have them create their own dance moves to the music.
• For smell, have the children smell different scents and try to identify what they are. You can use things like candles, spices, or flowers.
• When exploring taste, have the children taste different foods and identify the flavours. You can also play a game where they have to guess the food based on its taste.
• Finally, for touch, have the children feel different textures and identify what they are. You can use items like sandpaper, fabric, or household items with different textures. You can also blindfold them and have them guess what they are touching.

We hope that these activities have given you some ideas for how to make learning about the five senses fun and engaging for your students or children. Remember, hands-on learning is the best way to get children excited about science!

What is Braille and how is it used by individuals who are blind?

Braille is a tactile writing system used by individuals who are blind or visually impaired to read and write. It consists of patterns of raised dots arranged in cells that represent letters, numbers, punctuation, and even musical notation. People who are blind or have low vision can use their sense of touch to feel these raised dots with their fingertips and interpret the information conveyed. By learning Braille, individuals who are blind can independently read books, newspapers, labels, and other written materials that are not accessible to them in standard print. This empowers them to participate in education, employment, and various aspects of daily life that involve reading and writing.

How many sensory cells do our ears have?

Our ears possess approximately 24,000 sensory cells in total.

How many taste buds can the tongue have?

The tongue can possess between 2,000 to 8,000 taste buds.

Can someone use all five senses at the same time?

Yes, individuals have the capability of utilizing all five of their senses simultaneously. This means that a person can perceive visual information through their eyes, auditory stimuli through their ears, tactile sensations through touch, olfactory input through smell, and gustatory perceptions through taste, all at the same time. The human sensory system is complex and versatile, allowing individuals to process and interpret multiple sensory inputs simultaneously without even being consciously aware of it.

Why do some parts of the skin have more sensitivity than others?

Certainly! Some parts of the skin have more sensitivity than others due to the varying concentrations of sensory receptors found throughout the body. Areas such as the palms, fingertips, lips, and face have a higher density of specialized nerve endings called mechanoreceptors, which respond to touch, pressure, vibration, and texture more effectively than regions with lower receptor density. These sensory receptors in highly sensitive areas are more numerous and closely packed, allowing for more efficient transmission of tactile information to the brain. Additionally, certain body parts, like the fingertips, have a thinner layer of skin and a higher number of nerve endings, which amplify their ability to detect even the slightest of stimuli. These physiological differences across different regions of the skin contribute to the varying degrees of sensitivity experienced throughout the body.

What are the four kinds of taste receptors on the tongue?

The tongue contains four primary types of taste receptors: bitter, sweet, salt, and sour. Each of these taste receptors is responsible for detecting different flavors and helping us perceive the taste of various foods and beverages.

How do our senses send messages to our brain?

Our senses communicate with our brain by employing specialized receptor cells responsible for detecting various stimuli in our environment. These receptor cells, located in the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin, convert these external stimuli into electrical signals. These signals travel along nerve fibers through the nervous system towards our brain. Ultimately, the brain receives and processes these signals, allowing us to perceive and interpret the world around us through our senses.

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What are senses?

Think about what happens when Mum or Dad tells you that dinner is ready – you can hear them asking you to wash your hands, feel the water and soap against your skin, smell what’s cooking, see your chair at the table and taste the food on your plate. You can do all of that thanks to your senses!

Senses allow us to observe and understand the world around us. There are five main ways we can do this: through sight (with our eyes), touch (with our fingers), smell (with our nose), taste (with our tongue) and hearing (with our ears).

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• There are five senses – sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.
• Our senses help us to understand what’s happening around us.
• Our senses send messages through receptor cells to our brain, using our nervous system to deliver that message.
• There are four kinds of taste receptors on the tongue – bitter, sweet, salt and sour.
• Some parts of the skin are more sensitive than others – this is because they have more receptor cells.
• We taste food using both our sense of taste and smell.
• It’s fun to experiment with your senses – for example, make a chart of what foods taste bitter, sweet, salty and sour.
• If you cup your hand around your ear, you’ll hear more things – this is because you’re helping your ear gather more sounds.
• Not everyone is able to use all five of their senses. If someone cannot see, they are blind; if someone cannot hear, they are deaf.
• We can use all five of our senses at the same time without even realising it!

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• Our tongue can have 2,000-8,000 taste buds on it!
• We need our sense of smell in order for our sense of taste to work properly – if you hold your nose shut while you eat, the taste won’t be as strong. It’s why food sometimes tastes plain when we have a cold and our nose is blocked up.
• Most of our ear is in our head – not the bit we can see!
• The part of our ear that we can see helps gather sound waves into our middle and inner ear. If you cup your hard around your ear, you can hear more – why not give it a try?
• Our ears have around 24,000 sensory cells.
• The smallest bone in our bodies is in our ears – it’s called the stirrup.
• The iris and retina inside your eye don’t look like anyone else’s, just like…
• …your fingerprints – nobody else has fingerprints like yours!
• The skin is the largest organ we have – it covers our whole body!
• If someone is not able to see, they are known as blind. They can learn a special way to read books by touching pages to read words made from little bumps in the page – this is called Braille.
• If someone is not able to hear, they are known as deaf. Sign language is a way of talking by using your hands, and this way deaf people can understand what you’re saying.

Can you spot these images in the gallery below?

• Hearing (an ear)
• Touch (holding hands)
• Small (the scent of roses)
• Vision (a human eye)
• Taste (an ice cream)
• An illustration of the five senses
• Pictures of what you can do with each of the five senses

The taste receptors on our tongue are organised with bitter at the very back, sour and salt in the middle, and sweet at the tip.

Our eyes use two kinds of receptor cells – cones, which help us see colour, and rods, which enable us to see at night by telling our brain what’s black and white.

Ears have three parts – outer, which is the bit we can see and helps to guide sounds into your ear, middle, where the sounds around us vibrate, and the inner, which receives these vibrations and turns them into signals that get sent to our brain.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes you smell something very strongly (like fish at the fishmonger’s counter when you go food shopping with your mum), then after a few minutes the smell starts to go away? That’s because our nose has stopped sending signals to our brain, so our brain thinks that the smell isn’t really there anymore.

More than 75% of the taste of food that you’re eating comes from your sense of smell, not your sense of taste.

There are around 20 million neurons all the way up inside our nose in the area that detects smell.

Some parts of our skin are more sensitive than others, like our palms and fingertips, for instance. We can feel things more strongly there than we can on our back.

Words to know for your senses:

Auditory nerve – the nerve in our ear that carries signals to our brain to interpret sound Brain – the centre of the nervous system; our brain interprets the messages it receives from our senses, and figures out how to act based on that information (for instance, it tells our hand to move away quickly if we touch something that’s too hot) Cones – receptor cells in our eyes that let us see different colours Nerve impulses – how messages are sent to our brain to interpret and act on Nervous system – a network that transmits signals all over our body through special cells called neurons Olfactory system – the system for our sense of smell Receptor cells – these respond to stimuli and sends nerve impulses to the brain Rods – receptor cells in our eyes that interpret black and white, and help us see at night Sense organs – groups of receptor cells Stimulus – something that causes a response – for instance, if you touch something that’s too hot, you will immediately move your hand away; the plural of stimulus is stimuli Taste buds – receptor cells for taste located all over our tongue

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RSVP TODAY: "Coming To My Senses" screening coming to San Jose on March 29

The Silicon Valley premiere of the documentary " Coming To My Senses " with Aaron Baker will take place as part of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center SCI Rehab Center's SCI Connections meeting on Thursday, March 29th from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and everyone is encouraged to RSVP today as space is limited for this event.

NorCal SCI is providing a grant to help bring this film to this meeting as well as provide a great dinner & refreshments for everyone to enjoy.  

Aaron on a visit to the Golden Gate Bridge.

This film is not just about a guy with spinal cord injury who somehow manages to walk again. Aaron Baker's journey through the unknown took him from the depths of depression to the joys of cross country road tripping via tandem bicycle with his mother and friends, and finally, culminated in his opening a socially conscious low-cost gym focused on increasing mobility for the disabled.  Though " Coming to my Senses " chronicles the recovery of an individual living with a high-level spinal injury, the film is much broader in scope and application that individuals of all stripes can take away a message of perseverance in the face of disheartening odds.  See the trailer HERE .

Aaron during a scene in the film when he's resting in the midst of his 20-mile walk across Death Valley

In a recent phone call with NorCal SCI co-founders, Aaron said "This is a human experience, a human suffering.  My family was tragically affected by this."  He further added that he comes across individuals who say they can’t do that or are not gonna do that and "I say it’s not about what I’ve done but it’s about what I’m doing and the point is to take control of the injury and improve the quality of your life."  If you adopt an active healthy lifestyle, put targeted goals on your horizon to shoot and look toward, you become a very proactively responsible participant in your life, he concluded.

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Anahit Yengibaryan - Campus Principal

M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia; M.S. in Computer and Information Science, American University of Armenia

Have a background in and passion for math?

Frequently asked questions, why are you called the "russian" school of math.

The “Russian” comes from our approach - which is based on elite math schools in the former Soviet Union, adapted to the U.S. environment. According to Russian tradition - the study of mathematics is the pre-eminent tool of mental development. We teach math in a way that not only builds mathematical excellence, but also develops intellect and character.

Where does your curriculum come from?

We offer one continuous curriculum, from K-12. Our curriculum and methodology, perfected over 20 years by our team of gifted academics, is inspired by elite mathematical schools in the former Soviet Union, adapted for the American educational environment.

How big are your classes? What is the teacher to student ratio?

Our average class size is 12, and with three levels per grade we're able to ensure that each child is placed in a class that is appropriately challenging. Classrooms are an essential part of our methodology and curriculum as the environment enables students to verbalize and debate their ideas and exposes them to different ways of thinking.

How long are your classes? Can an elementary school child sit that long?

Our class-times vary depending on a child’s age. Starting anywhere from 1.5 hours for kindergarteners to 2-4 hours in high school. In the younger grades, we regularly mix activities and work with manipulatives to keep students engaged.

How much homework should I expect?

The goal of homework is to reinforce what was taught in class. Our teachers assign just enough to strengthen the skills developed in class. Homework is an excellent tool for you to gauge your child’s learning. It should take approximately half the length of your child’s lesson to complete. If the homework takes an unreasonably long or short amount of time, that may be a red flag indicating that your child is not in an appropriate level.

Who are your teachers?

All of our teachers have a background in mathematics or a related field and have a passion for the subject. They also go through extensive training to teach according to our specific methodology and curriculum.

What is the best age to join?

It takes many years to develop a deep mathematical foundation as well as the type of mindset we focus on building. With mathematics, as with a language or a sport, the earlier a child starts the better. Our students begin to reason with abstract concepts in elementary school, and by middle school they are not only familiar with essential elements of algebra but can easily apply them in problem solving.

What is your tuition?

Please submit the tuition request form above and we will automatically email you a pdf with our tuition costs by grade.

Is your program right for my child?

We have designed multiple levels for every grade specifically to be able to serve each child's development based on his or her knowledge and ability. We recommend scheduling a free evaluation, as these sessions enable us to get a sense of each child's needs and recommend a class that is best suited to him or her.

Will your program confuse my child in school?

The concepts that we cover are fundamental and we study them in depth. Children see concepts from a variety of different angles. This doesn’t lead to confusion but rather empowers students by deepening their understanding. Since our curriculum is generally ahead of public school, children will often first learn concepts at RSM. Once they master them, we find they can adapt to any school format.

What does WASC accreditation mean?

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is a world-renowned accrediting association that serves as the foundation for quality education. Accreditation determines the school's credibility as a trustworthy institution and shows commitment to continuous improvement.

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3 October 2014

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