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7th grade · Science · Unit 3 of 8

Our Senses

Eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin.

What your child practices

Practices natural sensory systems: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. It follows the Grade 6 science skill descriptors on natural and technical sensory systems in the New Brunswick curriculum.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 7.L1U1.11 · how organisms sense and respond to keep their bodies stable

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Your five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
  2. In the eye, the pupil lets light in and the lens focuses it. The pupil shrinks in bright light.
  3. Loud noise for a long time can damage hearing.

Example: What happens to your pupil in bright light? Too much light can hurt your eye. The pupil lets less light in. Answer: it gets smaller

Our Senses in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 3 of 8 in 7th grade Science, after Body Systems and before How Plants Work.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Arizona Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which sound level can damage hearing over time?

    • loud noise for a long time
    • quiet music
    • whispering
    • birds singing quietly

  2. Question 2

    Where are the cells that detect smell found?

    • on the skin
    • high inside the nose
    • in the ears
    • on the tongue

  3. Question 3

    Which part of the eye lets in light?

    • the retina
    • the iris
    • the pupil
    • the eyelid

  4. Question 4

    Which of these is one of the basic tastes?

    • spicy
    • cold
    • crunchy
    • bitter

  5. Question 5

    Which part of the inner ear changes vibrations into nerve signals?

    • the cochlea
    • the cornea
    • the lens
    • the eardrum

  6. Question 6

    Where are the messages from the senses made sense of?

    • the skin
    • in the brain
    • the lens
    • the tongue

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