The 5 Senses and Beyond

Hey Kiddos!

This week we are talking about sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell, but did you know we have way more than five senses!?! But today we won't talk about those funny other senses, let's talk about people who have SuperSenses! (like a superpower, but with your senses...)

Is yours?!

Some people have heightened senses of smell, hearing, taste, touch, and sight! That means that they have a much better ability to do these things than you and I can!

Did you know that some people can smell other people's feelings!

Meet Dave. Dave can smell Sadness! lol

Can you smell if someone is sad? I didn't know that people smelled differently when they were happy, but apparently they do! What do you smell like when you are scared?!

I bet you stink when you're angry...

You can hear a cool investigation they did with students about smelling emotions in the video below. Do you think you could identify the different emotions?

Also, some people have perfect pitch. That means that they can identify parts of music that other people cannot. Maybe that's why I'm not very good at singing. haha. :(

You know you do it too... Don't judge me!

He can hear allllll the beautiful sounds!

What about taste? Do you have the superpower of taste? Some professional chefs can identify all the ingredients in a soup!! Could you identify all the ingredients in Salmorejo or Gazpacho if you didn't know what it was made of?

Now, tell me, what is the secret ingredient!?

Mmm, now I'm hungry!!

Blind people also have a heightened sense of touch, mapping out someone's face, and reading with their fingers. They read books written in Braille and can notice very small differences in texture that most of us cannot!

This is how children who are sight-impaired (blind) read books. Pretty cool!!!

And this is my favorite! There are people who can see EXTRA colors!!! Some fish can see amazing colors that humans cannot see, but now some people are developing Super Sight! How amazing would it be if you could see a new color!

This is the Zebrafish. They can see more colors than humans can!!!

The new rainbow! (maybe how the Zebrafish sees the world!)

Well, that is all for me guys! I hope you enjoyed my article!

See you next time,
Raelynne


Vocabulary underlined and in italics:

heightened - mayor
apparently - al parecer
identify - identificar
pitch - el tono
blind - ciego
mapping - cartografiar
texture - textura


Where did all my information come from?
These websites: http://listverse.com/2008/06/28/9-extraordinary-human-abilities/
http://www.sirc.org/publik/smell_emotion.html
www.youtube.com
www.google.com/images