This video segment explores the role of touch in the development of young animals, including humans. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Touch." [2:57]

Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.

This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.

Learn how the sense organs are structured and how they function to provide you with five senses.

Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...

Some scientists think the Mountain Beaver is the world's most primitive living rodent, similar in appearance and behavior to animals that lived 60 million years ago. They have small eyes and ears and luxurious whiskers, and are, like...

How does one experience synesthesia- the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled...