How can you tell they’ve got it: Body Parts & Senses?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Label eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin on a body outline; Match each sense organ to its sense: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch; Describe a simple scenario for each sense (e.g. 'I use my nose to smell cookies baking'). Or just try it together: Can your child point to their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin and tell you which sense each one is used for?

Science Organisms & Life Processes Ages 5–6

Body Parts & Senses

Your child can point to their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. They know each one gives a sense — eyes to see, ears to hear, nose to smell.

In curriculum terms

Identify, name, and locate basic parts of the human body and associate each body part with its sense

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Label eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin on a body outline
Match each sense organ to its sense: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch
Describe a simple scenario for each sense (e.g. 'I use my nose to smell cookies baking')

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Try this together

Can your child point to their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin and tell you which sense each one is used for?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Animal Body Groupsages 5–7Comparing animal structures supports understanding own body parts

Body Parts & Sensesthis skill · ages 5–6

Unlocks

Senses, Brain & Responsesages 9–10Must know human senses before modelling sense-brain-response pathway in animals

The Five Sensesages 5–7Exploratory five senses in detail complements curriculum body parts and senses topic (GB Y1)

Skeletons & Musclesages 7–8Knowing body parts and senses supports understanding skeleton protects organs

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

Nearby on the map

Animal Body Groupsages 5–7 Common Plants & Treesages 5–6 Herbivores, Carnivores & Omnivoresages 5–6 Living Things Vocabularyages 5–7

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