The Sense of Hearing

Your sense of hearing depends upon tiny hairs deep inside your ear and if you lose these hairs, you lose your hearing. Here, groups explore hearing through the decibel measurement of common sounds. As a class, participants discuss...

Eighteen questions about the senses are to be answered. Human biology pupils address vision and the eye, hearing and equilibrium, smell and taste. The instructional activity covers vision in more depth than other senses, including...

Eighteen short-answer questions make up this reading guide. Although it is designed as a reading guide for a particular text, you may find the questions useful for your biology class when studying organs of the human body. They pertain...

It makes sense to understand the human body! An informative presentation introduces the major senses, including the path sensory information follows, the evolution of each sense, and the function and structure of each part involved. It...

Sounds travel into our ears at 770 mph. Teach class members about our sense of hearing and how this helps with balance. Learners explore sound as it travels from the air into our ears and is translated by the brain. They then see how...

How does this sound? It's a rockin' video starring two teenage girls talking about music, hearing, and the ear. Listeners hear that the ear does not only gather sound waves, but also helps us maintain balance. They also will get an...

Young scientists explore hearing through multiple experiments, demonstrations, and activities. They focus on the changes in hearing over a lifetime, how we can determine where a sound is coming from, and the ability to filter noises.

There is a scallop that relies on sight so much that it actually has more than 100 eyes! There are many species that rely heavily on one sense or another. An online interactive resource has youth read about several of these animals. The...

Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.

Students recognize how each of the five senses works and define the related terminology. They compare and contrast the means by which the senses gather information about the world. In addition, they research how an assigned sense works...