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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From sniffing out a meal to finding a mate, species throughout the animal kingdom use their sense of smell every day. While most animals use their noses to smell, such as cats, dogs, and humans, others use different parts of their bodies. For example, bees use their antennae, snakes use their tongues, and butterflies use their legs. A good sense of smell can allow animals to survive in dark, underground habitats. It can help others locate food sources...
43) How Animals Feel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The sense of touch brings the world closer to us, and the same is true for the animals on Earth. This book explains how animals explore their world through the sense of touch, with skin, fur, biological systems, and more. A variety of animals are profiled, including butterflies, cats, monkeys, dogs, earthworms, and even humans, with specific examples of how feeling helps mammals, insects, and people find food, navigate the world, and stay safe from...
44) How Animals See
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An animal's eyes provide it with information about its encounters with other animals and its habitat. This book is filled with important and exciting facts about how animals see, such as deer, eagles, dragonflies, cats, and squids. It includes how animal eyes are constructed, how they work in different environments, and how different animals use sight to stay safe, find food, and experience the world around them. Comparisons between animal eyesight...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The sense of taste helps animals determine what is delicious, and what is deadly. Animals have evolved a wide variety of taste preferences and abilities. For instance, an octopus has ten thousand taste buds on each one of its arms' suckers; a bison has a great knack for using taste to avoid toxic plants while grazing, and gorillas and chimps like sweet-tasting food. With interesting, easy-to-understand text and vivid pictures, this book explores the...
46) How Animals Hear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Animals rely on their sense of hearing to locate predators, find food, and sense danger. This book explores a variety of animal ears and describes how they work and how they help animals hear. From the super-sharp hearing of an owl to grasshoppers that hear through their legs, this book is full of fascinating facts that capture the reader's attention while providing scientific information and offering an opportunity to compare animal hearing to the...
47) Sense of sight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
℗♭2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the sense of sight and how it is important to us.
50) Sense of touch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
℗♭2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduction to the sense of touch for early readers.
53) Hearing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents an introduction to the five senses, focusing on hearing, explaining how the ears function, looking at how it works together with the brain to provide information about the world, discussing different sounds, and offering advice on how to protect the ears.
54) Taste
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Text and illustrations present things that taste sweet, sour, salty, delicious, and terrible. Included is a picture of the tongue and a short explanation of our sense of taste.
Author
Series
Coming to Our Senses volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
People are increasingly turning to meditative methods to relieve the ill effects of stress, and to become more focused, healthy, and proactive. Kabat-Zinn is a leader of the mind/body revolution in medicine and health care, demystifying it and bringing it into the mainstream. Here he offers insight into how to use the five senses-- touch, hearing, sight, taste, and smell, plus awareness itself-- as a path to a healthier, saner, and more meaningful...
57) Hearing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1983
Description
Text and illustrations presents sounds to be heard. Included is a short scientific explanation of our sense of hearing, with a diagram of the ear.