Animal senses

• Science
• Primary Education
• Age 9

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Animal senses 

Lesson objectives:

 Students will be able define sensory organs.

Students will be able to identify how these senses help animals to survive.

What are sensory organs?

Are the stuctures that gathers information from outside.

What are some sensory organs?,

Sensory organs are structure on animals and humans that will help them to gather information from surrounding. In the case of this dog, the nose is a sensory organ that will help it to smell/sniff.

Name some sensory organs in animals?

Sight

Sight/seeing is an important sense for animals. The sensory organ in this case are EYES. Many animals depend on 

This is a colossal squids live in ocean waters.  They have some of the largest eyes in all the animals. 

Each eye is about 26 cm wide. This help the squid to see in the dark depths of the oceans.

African Elephant have the biggest ears of any animal. Their ear help them to hear sound from very far. 

Ants do not have noses but they have something called antennae to detect smell. 

Butterflies use their feet to sense the plant. 

Snakes 

Snakes have a senosry organ that help it to catch its prey. It is located between its eyes and nose. This organ can detect light given out by the bodies of other animals. 

ECHOLOCATION 

Process of finding an object by using reflected sounds. 

These bats send out a high pitched sound. This sound hits the prey and bounce back to the bat. The bat then judge the direction of the prey.

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