Our nose and tongue work together

Our nose and tongue are special partners. Together, they help us to enjoy our food.

When we eat food, our nose smells the food and our tongue tastes it.

When we have a blocked nose, we cannot smell very smell. Our food also seems to lose some of its taste.

Our tongue knows about four type of tastes. Our nose know about 3000 types of scents.

1.7 Our sense organs work together

How do our sense organs work together?

We use all our senses to help us find out about the world around us every day. Our different sense organs work together when we play, eat and carry out other activities.

For example, when we play a board game, we:

use our eyes to see objects on the board.

use our skin to feel when we touch the pieces.

use our ears to listen to what our friends say.

The children make use of their sense organs to see, feel and hear.