Sense organ skin – sense of touch and of feel https://medienportal.siemens-stiftung.org/portal/displayobjdetail.php?setlang=en&objid=101806
The biggest organ in the human body is the skin. A twelve-year-old has an amount of skin equivalent to about 20 A4 pages. The skin has several tasks: To begin with, to protect against external influences; it can heal itself in the event of minor injuries. And then it is responsible for touching and feeling. We can distinguish between six different sensations: touch, pressure, pain, tension, vibration and temperature. Information and ideas: What sorts of things can I feel? Here, it is a good idea to prepare a box full of materials which can be recognised by touching and feeling them. Relevant for teaching: The human body Structure and function of a sense organ Reception of stimuli and processing of information Senses discover the environment
this medium Media package: Experimento | 10+: C5 What functions does the skin have
