Sensory Receptors

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Standard: Each sense receptor responds to different inputs (electromagnetic, mechanical, chemical), transmitting them as signals that travel along nerve cells to the brain. the signals are then processed in the brain, resulting in immediate behaviors or memories (MS-LS1-8)

Vocabulary: Sensory Receptors, Virtual Neurons, The Senses, Sensation, Perception, Mechanoreceptor, Thermoreceptor, Homeostasis, Chemoreceptors, Pain Receptors, Photoreceptors.

Sensory Receptors Doc

Log into Edpuzzle in Clever before you begin! 

1. Watch the Edpuzzle movie and answer embedded questions. 

2. What are sensory receptors?

3. Watch the Edpuzzle movie and answer the questions. 

 4. ScienceFlix: Senses (psusd students only, see link at the top of the page for passwords) When you get to the scienceflix page, find Senses under Health and Human Body, watch the movie and answer the following questions. Not a psusd student try this site 

    a. What sensory output does the brain produce in a split second?

    b. What does the brain do in order to see?

    c. What senses do not originate in the head? 

5. Operation Ouch: Watch the Edpuzzle movie and answer the questions.

6. What are the five types of sensory receptors? 

7.  Lesson: Sensory Pathways 

    a. What are somatic senses?

    b. What are somatosensory pathways? 

    c. What is wrong with Patrick? Why is this a problem?    

    d. What are afferent nerves? 

8. Interactive: Sensory Receptors 

    What are the 7 sensory receptors on the skeleton? 

9. What does pain usually indicate? 

10. Kahoot!: sensory receptors 

Take the quiz and put your answers in the Google Doc. 

11. Where are the thermoreceptors usually located? What do they do? 

12. Where are the mechanoreceptors found? What are they sensitive to? 

13. Watch the Edpuzzle movie and answer the questions. 

 14. What are the eye's three layers? What the Edpuzzle movie and answer the questions. 

    Optical Illusions and the eye: look at the slide show and see how your eyes can be deceived. 

15. What are the two types of photoreceptors? What do they do? 

16. Watch the Edpuzzle movie and answer the questions. 

17. The human ear has two sensory functions, what are they? 

18. Interactive: Ear 

    Go through the interactive and list 5 things you learned and why they are important. 

19. What in the nasal passageway responds to chemicals and sends impulses to the brain through sensory nerves? 

20. BrainPop: Smell (Take the review quiz when finished with the movie)

    a. What are the last 3 answers on the review quiz? 

21. What are the sense organs in the mouth called? Watch the Edpuzzle movie and answer the questions. 

22. Interactive: Taste  

   Why does eating a hot pepper make your mouth feel like it's on fire? 

23. What do the skin's sensory receptors respond to?