Human Senses Experiment Kit

SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS / PROCESSES

• Mapping the taste sensations of sweet, salty, bitter and sour
  
• Determining olfactory fatigue and recovery times by inhaling different odors
  
• Discovers hot and cold nerve endings as they map a section of skin
  
• Locating nerve endings for touch (pressure) and pain
  
• Determining the two-point threshold of various parts of the body
• Investigating blind spots, dominant eye, visual accommodation, near point of vision and after image
• Experiments with reflex actions

It provokes a personal interest as students identify response areas on their bodies. They become aware of their sensory perceptions and the physiological characteristics of the body receptors.

Contents List

• 1 Teachers Guide with MSDS
  
• 24 Student Worksheets and Guides, Part I and II
  
• 120 3 inch Swabs
  
• 30 6 inch Swabs
  
• 30 Blind spot determiners
  
• 30 Plastic inhalers
  
• 30 Probes, metal
  
• 1 Straight pins, pk.
  
• 1 Bristles, pkg.
  
• 15 Styrofoam holders
  
• 2 Oil of perfume, drop controlled bottles

• 2 Bitter solution
  
• 2 Salty solution
  
• 2 Sour solution
  
• 2 Sweet solution

• 2 Oil of Cloves
  
• 2 Oil of Peppermint

  Measurements are approximate.