Public learning track
Chemical, Body, and Multisensory Systems
6 lessons
Goal
Examine the mechanisms of the chemical, tactile, pain, vestibular, and kinesthetic senses, and how they integrate to shape sensory experience.
6 lessons
0 of 6 done
- The Chemical Senses: Olfaction and GustationUp next
- Touch Transduction: From Skin Receptors to the Somatosensory CortexNot started yet
- Pain Perception and Gate-Control TheoryNot started yet
- The Vestibular Sense: How We Stay Upright and BalancedNot started yet
- Kinesthesis: The Sense of Body Movement and PositionNot started yet
- Sensory Interaction: How Your Senses Work TogetherNot started yet
Standards Covered
- SS.912.P.4.6Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Describe other sensory systems, such as olfaction, gestation, and somesthesis (e.g., skin senses, kinesthesis, vestibular sense).
- SS.912.P.4.1Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Discuss processes of sensation and perception and how they interact.
Curriculum Framework
9th Grade · Social Studies · US-FL-SS
1
5 lessons
Foundations of Sensation and Psychophysics
Understand how physical stimuli are converted into neural signals through sensory transduction, thresholds, adaptation, and comparative sensory capabilities across species.
2
6 lessons
Visual and Auditory Systems
Explore the anatomical structures, neural pathways, and perceptual theories that enable human vision and hearing.
3
6 lessons
Chemical, Body, and Multisensory Systems
Examine the mechanisms of the chemical, tactile, pain, vestibular, and kinesthetic senses, and how they integrate to shape sensory experience.
4
10 lessons
Perception, Attention, and Illusions
Analyze how the brain organizes, interprets, and directs attention toward sensory information to construct meaningful perceptual experiences.
5
6 lessons
Consciousness and the Science of Sleep
Explore levels of conscious awareness, dual cognitive processing, circadian rhythms, and the physiological stages and theories of human sleep.
6
7 lessons
Sleep Disorders, Dreams, and Wellbeing
Examine major sleep disorders, the consequences of sleep deprivation, psychological and neurobiological theories of dreaming, and practical sleep hygiene.
7
12 lessons
Altered States, Hypnosis, and Psychoactive Drugs
Evaluate the biological and psychological effects of meditation, hypnosis, and psychoactive substances on neurotransmission, behavior, and states of awareness.
8
7 lessons
Flow States and Optimal Consciousness
Explain the psychological characteristics, neurological basis, conditions, and real-world applications of flow states as optimal states of consciousness.