Biology, Science

Yum, Yuck, and Your Sense of Taste

Delicious, scrumptious, delectable, mouth-watering, yummy.
Stale, awful, terrible, unsavory, bland, unpalatable.

These are just a few of the many words to describe how food tastes.

Today’s freebie resource is this neat collection of lessons and activities about the sense of “taste”, from the site Neuroscience for Kids, curated by Dr. Eric H. Chudler for students and teachers who would like to learn about the nervous system.

Start with this COOL INTRODUCTION TO THE SENSE OF TASTE

Next, check out this COMPLETE LESSON PLAN (WITH LAB EXPERIMENTS) ON TASTE

Here are lots more short, fun HANDS ON EXPERIMENTS to try

…and there are more links to other “tasty” resources in these pages! Bon apetit!