Explore the sense organs

Author: (USA) Cole / (USA) Degen Illustrated by Xie Hui
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book has won the "Magic School Bus" Non-fiction Award for Reading from the U.S. "Educational Magazine." The best-selling, most award-winning, and most popular "Magic School Bus" has arrived in China!
Bold and unconventional teacher;
Magical and ever-changing school bus;
Relaxed and humorous classroom;
Fun and easy-to-understand science;
Thrilling and exciting experiences—all in the science book, "The Magic School Bus"!
Recommended by the National Library of the United States for all preschool and elementary school children as natural supplementary reading material. With a global circulation exceeding 58 million copies, it is one of the signature books of Scholastic, the U.S. educational publisher.
For the students in Ms. Frizzle's class, humor is certainly the most important thing! But in their latest adventure, they also learned about sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and more senses!
When Ms. Frizzle left school, she forgot something important. The new assistant principal rushed out of the Magic School Bus to chase her, and the entire class followed in a frenzy. Before the day ended, they tracked Ms. Frizzle all the way, exploring the human eye, ear, tongue, and even playing in a dog's nose.
Why can humans and animals' eyes see the colorful world outside? Why can ears distinguish different tones of sound? Why is a dog's sense of smell more sensitive than humans'? The seemingly simple questions the children asked sometimes made it difficult to answer.
Life science is considered the most complex and rapidly developing natural science, yet many questions remain unanswered. Clearly, explaining any phenomenon in the life process is far from easy.
However, after browsing this book that introduces the senses and sensory knowledge of humans and animals, you'll find that science is not as distant as you might think.
Some students had an accident while chasing the teacher on the bus. Suddenly, the bus shrank to the size of dust and entered Officer Jones' eye. A thrilling and perilous adventure began in the sensory world of a "giant."
Following the light from the outside, the students entered the cornea, pupil, and retina through the eye. Here, it was like a huge circular "movie screen," where all the objects the eye saw were imaged. Through the nerve bundles, the children actually saw everything Officer Jones saw in the cerebral cortex!
Throughout the entire day, the students explored the eye, ear, tongue, and even entered a dog's nose! They experienced firsthand the entire process of vision, hearing, smell, and taste—truly a sensory journey!
Dry and abstract scientific terms turned into the tangible real world here. You truly saw the rod and cone cells that perceive light and color, which are usually only visible under an electron microscope, and you felt the hair cells in the cochlea that receive sound, which transform sound vibrations into nerve signals.
All sensory information eventually reaches different parts of the brain through different nerve pathways, producing different sensations. The production of sensations is truly both mysterious and complex. Perhaps the children's senses are even more exciting for us—they developed an interest in science, leading them to explore unknown fields in the future.