Good afternoon class! I’m teacher J, I’m going to teach you the object and hand signing.

next topic.
She used her sense of touch to feel and trace the objects/words.
But before we start our next topic, I will show a picture class.
Based on the story that I’ve read a while ago, what do you think is
Do you know who’s in this picture? our topic for today?
No Teacher.
I think our topic for today is about Human Senses.
Some of you don’t know her and her story. I will tell her story.
Listen to teacher okay class? Do you know the Human senses organs?

She is Helen Keller. She experienced a life without sight or What are they?
hearing. Despite her disabilities, she became a renowned author
and speaker in America. Helen had a dedicated teacher named The Human Senses that we have are the eyes, ears, nose,
Anne Sullivan who helped her learn by letting her feel objects tongue and skin.
with her hand and tracing the corresponding word onto her palm.
Very Good! We have 5 senses organs and they are eyes for sense
Now let’s see if you understand the story. Let me ask you a of sight, tongue for sense of taste, ears for sense of hearing, nose
question. for sense of smell and skin for the sense of touch.

Who is Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan? Now, we are going to focus on the sense of touch.

Helen Keller is blind and deaf, she can’t see nor hear. Have you ever noticed how rough bath sponges or how soft the
Anne Sullivan is her teacher cotton is?

How did she learned to read and write? Why do objects feel cold or hot?
All of this is thanks to the sense of touch.
Her teacher let her feel object with her hand and traced the
word for each object. The sense of touch allows us to detect, identify, and distinguish
among the properties of an object and the world that surrounds us.
Very Good class! Helen Keller is blind and deaf but thanks to her Thanks of the sense of touch, we feel the temperature of a
teacher Anne Sullivan, she was able to read by just tracing the container, the softness of a fabric or how it hurt if you touch the
cactus needle. Who among you has touched the cactus needle?
How was it? Does it hurt? Imagine you touch or hold a hot plate, the
receptors and nerve ending on our skin
that’s right, the sense of touch is also incharge of letting you pain. will collect the different sensations and
send this information to the brain through
the nerve endings.
The skin is the organ responsible for the sense of touch. Did you
know that it’s the largest part of our body? Why? The brain is incharge of recognizing the shape of the plate, its
texture and of course its temperature. If we grabbed a hot plate the
Yes teacher because it covers all our body. brain would quickly signal our hand muscles to put the plate
That’s right. down.

The skin is divided into three different layers. The epidermis, the As you can see, the skin is a very important organ so we should
dermis and the hypodermis. take care of it.

The epidermis the outermost layer of the skin and Can you tell me what’s in the picture and when
protects us from external factors like bacteria, should we do this?
viruses and fungi.
Washing hand teacher. We should wash our hand before
Our skin has small openings or pores that allow meals, when we get back home from the park or school, and after
oxygen out and sweat to pass through. using the bathroom.

Look at your hand. That is your Epidermis. Avoid midday sun especially during summer.
What should we wear to protect our skin from
The dermis is the middle layer of the skin. It contains blood the sun?
capillaries, Sweat glands and number of receptors incharge of Teacher wearing a cup, clothes and sunscreen will help us to
collecting information from the outside world. protect our skin.

Lastly is the hypodermis it is the innermost layer and separates Very good. How about the last picture?
the skin from other internal organ. Its main function is to regulate If you have a wound, what will you do?
body temperature. Hair growth happens in this layer of our skin.
Disinfect it teacher, to prevent an infection. You can also cover it
with a band-aid.