Description
HUMANICO 5 Senses
These puzzles are all about recognising, correlating, and understanding our five senses: vision, hearing, smell, tasting and touch. These aspects will be conveyed and trained through different game variations using perception, sensitisation, and linguistic articulation.
Easy self-checking based on contours of the puzzle pieces.
TASTE:
How something tastes to us is decided by our tongue. The tongue helps us to differentiate between for example sweet and sour or bitter and salty food. Not every part of the tongue perceives tastes in the same way. It is divided into so-called taste areas, which means that different areas are responsible for identifying various flavours. Our tongue is responsible for our „gustatory perception“.
TOUCH:
On first glance we perceive objects through touching them with our hands, but actually we feel them with our skin. The skin is the biggest human sensory organ. Our skin helps us to register being touched and can decide whether items are soft, hard, wet or cold. This sense is also called “tactile or haptic perception”.
VISION:
Our eyes are responsible for our „visual perception“, which includes everything we can see. Our visual sense helps us differentiate between several forms and colours as well as notice movement. We estimate distances and sizes visually. Seeing is harder for us at night than by day. Especially interesting, happy, sad or exciting images are saved as memories in our minds.
HEARING:
We perceive sound with our ears through sound waves. When soundwaves enter the ear, they are directed by the auricle into the ear canal, where they meet the eardrum. We can perceive various sounds differences: loud or quiet, enjoyable or shrill sounds. Some sounds will make children curious, and others are signals which will warn them of danger. Hearing is our “auditive perception”.
SMELL:
Our nose helps us to differentiate between good and bad smells. It protects the organism from harmful influences, for example poisonous gas. Enjoyable smells will make us feel comfortable, whereas bad smells can even cause nausea. Smelling is also called „olfactory perception“
Not suitable for children under three years old due to small parts, keep out of their reach.
