- Was it more difficult to catch the ruler using one of the senses as compared to the other? Explain.
- How could you use only the sense of smell to catch the ruler?
- How could you use only the sense of taste to catch the ruler?
- Explain how your senses, nerves, brain, and muscles in your fingers helped you to catch the ruler for one of the senses explored. Use pages 17-23 of your student reference book to help you.
- How did your body respond when the ball of paper was thrown at you?
- How would this reflex protect your eyes if the transparency had not been there?
- Do you think the nervous system responded to catching the ruler and blinking in the same way? Why or why not? Were the senses used in both? Were muscles used in both? Did you have to think about both actions?
Answer
- IT was a lot easier to catch the ruler when i heard a noise because its like a start yell in an Olympic race or some tests that scientist are doing, the hardest one was The sense of sight because even though i saw the ruler drop, I wasn't the one that dropped it
- You could put a certain smell under your nose that you agreed apon and when you smelled it you would you would clamp your hand
- The sense of taste you could stick out your tongue and some on could drop some food on the tongue you could Clamp on the Ruler
- The sense of sight sent a message to the brain using the nerves right behind the eye so it then sends more messages to the mussels in the hands to squeeze
- Every time I flinched when the paper ball hit the paper because we saw it coming but we might of flinch even more if it was a dark non see through paper
- It would protect it by closing your eyes so you don't get it in your eyes
- Yes because when i got poked for the touch sense I flinched because i didn't know when I was getting poked and in both I tensed up my muscles when I flinched. Yes muscles were used in both. No i did not realy need to think about it that much