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Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Taste Lesson PlanBio Ed Online: Our Sense of Taste Lesson Plan
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BioEd Online
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Pre-K - 1st
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1110L
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Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Taste

Curated by ACT

What are the basic tastes? Where is information about taste detected in the body? In this lesson students taste four mystery substances and learn that the tongue is covered with taste buds, which contain taste receptors that communicate with the brain, and that the brain determines the flavors we experience.

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Concepts

taste buds, sense of taste

Additional Tags

flavor, taste, taste receptors, tongue, our sense of taste

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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