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The Senses: Tasting StudyJam

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

The Senses: Tasting StudyJam

URL:

https://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/human-body/tasting.htm

Content Source:

Other
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Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Imagine your favorite food. Do you know why you like it so much? It is all up to your sense of taste. Find out how it works!

The tongue has thousands of taste receptors that respond to chemicals in the food you eat. Nerves in your tongue and nose send signals to your brain, allowing you to taste the food you eat.

This resource presents a short slide show about how humans detect and interpret taste. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 4

10 ) Obtain and communicate information explaining that humans have systems that interact with one another for digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, movement, control, coordination, and protection from disease.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and System Models

Disciplinary Core Idea: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Obtain information explaining that humans have systems that interact with one another for digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, movement, control, coordination, and protection from disease.
Communicate information explaining that humans have systems that interact with one another for digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, movement, control, coordination, and protection from disease.

Teacher Vocabulary:

communicate
articulate
obtain
structure
function
interactions
digestion
respiration
circulation
excretion
movement
control
coordination
protection
disease
body systems

Knowledge:

Students know:

Humans have systems that interact with one another.
The purpose, functions, and interactions of the digestive system.
The purpose, functions, and interactions of the respiratory system.
The purpose, functions, and interactions of the circulatory system.
The purpose, functions, and interactions of the excretory system.
The purpose, functions, and interactions of the systems that contribute to movement, control, and coordination.
The purpose, functions, and interactions of the systems that protect the body from disease.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Obtain information by reading and comprehending grade-appropriate complex texts about the interacting systems in the human body.
Evaluate information about interactions and functions of human body systems by comparing and/or combining across complex texts and/or other reliable media.
Communicate information orally and/or in written formats about interactions and functions of human body systems.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

The body is a system of interacting parts that makes up a whole and carries out functions its individual parts can not.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Animal Studies

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.4.10- Identify human systems (i.e. digestive, circulatory, and respiratory).

Tags:

brain, digestion, gustatory cortex, nasal, nerves, saliva, senses, taste, taste buds

License Type:

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Accessibility

Comments

The test may be completed as a whole group or independently on student devices.

This resource provided by:

Author:

Hannah Bradley

ALEX Classroom Resource

The Senses: Tasting StudyJam