Touch: Read Health Text pages 92, 93; The Five Senses Magazine pgs. 6 ~ 7); Science Text pages G37) Research Questions Notes/ Responses to Que: 1. How many sensations can your skin detect? List the different kinds of nerve cells contained in the skin and tell what each senses. (Health text p. 92 and 93) Different kinds of nerve cells sense different things © Pain © Pressure: gentle touch or a harder push © Heat * Cold 2. What do sensory nerves do? ‘Sensory nerves carry messages from skin to brain and the brain figures out what is happening (Health text p. 92 and 93) |~ 3. List 6 facts about the | Body's largest sensory organ - skin and its role in| © Skin of average adult male weighs 9 Ibs. and covers 20 sq.ft the human body. © Skin keeps fluids in body and infections out. «Lets you know if you are too hot or too cold oT ‘Magazine p. 6, ‘® Alerts you to presence of danger «Lets you experience affection From/Assessmient regulates the temperature of your body # blocks germs from getting into our bodies allow us to feel pain, pressure, heat, cold insulates us from heat and cold provides protective padding 4. What are ‘* Temperature receptors in the body tell you when you are too hot or too temperature cold, ex. If temp. is lower, hairs on body may stand up; air is trapped receptors and what between skin and hair — insulates the body and warms it, movement of do they do? the hair causes goose bumps; if overheated, sweat released from the skin (Senses Magazine p. 6, ption) — it evaporates and the body is cooled.3. List at least 2 interesting /fun facts related to the sense of touch and nature (animals or plants) (Senses Magazine p. 6-7) Stimulus of pain receptors in skin may cause itching ex: mosquito bites itch — saliva from female goes into skin and keeps blood from clotting; allergic to saliva — causes itch Some plants rely on sense of touch for survival ~ Venus Fly Trap — closes when it senses and insect landing on it, Pain lets you know when body is damaged; a warning to stop what you are doing Spiders — uses sense of touch to decide if something in web is too big to grasp; feels the movement of the insect struggling by holding on to one thread of the web “Hugs can add to physical and emotional well-being (ex; preemies gain more weight if held massaged — 50 % more than those that are not held) 6. Interesting notes from website research, Add at least 5 notes/facts.Illustration: Label the diagram of the skin: (See Magazine p. 6; Health text p. 92 and Science Text G37); conibine information from sources; label 4 types of nerves, layers of Skin, hair roots, ete, Subcutaneous Joneele Yair _— Big6d Vessels Epidgtns