Great Big Story
Restoring Touch, Breakthroughs in Prosthetic Technology
Discover how groundbreaking research is bringing the sense of touch back to prosthetic limbs, transforming lives.
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Feel?
Ouch! That hurt! When your baby brother bites your finger, how do you feel it? How do you know whatês hot or whatês cold? How can you tell if something is soft or scratchy or damp? Most of all, how do we feel pain? Weêre talking about...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Supporting Emotional Wellbeing in Children: Calming Your Mind
Follow along with a quick video to learn the skill, Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1. Young learners practice mindfulness to focus on themselves and their surroundings and calm their nerves. A narrator takes viewers through each step.
Veritasium
Can We Really Touch Anything?
When we touch something, what actually happens? Young physicists get in depth with electrons in a video from Veritasium. The narrator first explains the intricate interactions that occur at the subatomic level before answering a variety...
Bozeman Science
LS1D - Information Processing
Too much information? How does an organism process all of the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings it receives from its environment? Discover new ideas for presenting Next Generation Science Standard LS1D, Information Processing, in a...
Veritasium
Misconceptions About Heat
How do you dispel misconceptions about heat? Bake a cake! Using an infrared thermometer, the narrator discloses heat's true nature to unsuspecting beach-goers, as well as to his mother. Our sense of touch misleads us into measuring heat...
Peekaboo Kidz
The Five Senses - The Dr. Binocs Show
Dr. Binocs shows viewers his bag of five senses! He explains how important our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are, and how they are related to our five senses.
Sumanas
Sumanas Inc: Discover Biology: Receptors in the Skin
How does the skin sense vibration, pain or pressure? Use this tutorial to assist your understanding.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Re Wiring the Sense of Touch
Doctors have rewired the nerves of two amputees to restore the sensation of touch in a missing hand. The researchers hope the work will lead to better prosthetic devices.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: How the Body Works: Sense of Touch
How does the brain recognize when something touches the body? Check out the video to learn about the receptors. [1:47]