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Puberty/Adolescence Day 5: What Will I Decide About Touch?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students follow the thoughtful decision model and decide which kind of touching is okay and which is not as a teen. In this touch lesson plan, students also learn how to communicate those decisions.
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Hand Sensitivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners experiment with the sense of touch. For this tactile lesson, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Learners experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory data...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Taste, Touch, and Vision

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the five senses.  For this fives senses survival lesson students complete an activity about their senses. 
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The Touch N Feel Box

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight.  In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses lesson, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.
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Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the five senses.  For this five senses science and literature lesson, students listen to The Magic School Bus Five Senses book, stopping to identify and discuss each sense.  Students draw and label a picture of their...
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Nature Walk

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars explore nature artists and participate in a nature walk. In this art/nature activity, students discuss things artists use from nature then talk a walk to find some of the same things. Young scholars look for different...
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Touch and Feel Box

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate their sense of touch to help become more descriptive with their observations. In this sensory lesson plan, students reach inside a box to feel an object then guess what it is.  Students then use both senses of touch...
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Touchy Feely

For Teachers K
Students investigate the sense of touch. In this senses lesson, students use their sense of touch to predict what objects are inside of a bag by feeling them with their eyes closed.
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Seeing through Touch

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students explore solid objects using touch. In this art lesson, students are blindfolded and given a 3 dimensional object to explore with their hands. After the object is removed, students draw what they think the object looked like....
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Feely Balloons

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use their sense of touch to identify different types of solids. In this "Mystery Solids" lesson, students feel various balloons filled with items such as rice, flour, salt, beans, etc. They use their senses to come to logical...
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Using Your Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this senses worksheet, students answer two questions about observations using the senses. Students then give reasons why each sense may not give them all the information they need when making observations.
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Your Sense of Touch

For Students K - 2nd
In this senses worksheet, students identify pictures of items that are hard or soft to the touch. In the following four pages, kids use their discernment skills to identify things they can see, smell, and hear. Students color the...
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Who Am I?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this earth science learning exercise, students read the description of each animal and identify who each one is. They circle every third letter in the box to the right to check their answer.
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Sense of Touch

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of touch. They listen to and discuss the book, I Can Tell By Touching, observe a demonstration of cold, and create a touch book using candy buttons, pine needles, cotton, burlap, and wax paper.
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All About Me: My Senses

For Teachers K
Students explore the world around them and identify their five senses and the parts of their bodies that are associated with each sense.
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Touching Traits

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students describe objects using only their sense of touch. For this lesson on describing characteristics, students use only their sense of touch to describe an unseen object in a box. This lesson can be used an an introduction to plant...
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What's In The Beans

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Visually impaired students discover objects using their sense of touch. In this exploration lesson plan, students with visual impairments use their sense of touch to discover objects hidden in a bowl of beans. If the student is not...
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Get in Touch With Trees

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this five senses worksheet, learners complete several activities that help them improve their sense of touch and learn about their environment.
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Senses Used to Observe Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this senses worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by writing in the 5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
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Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "My Five Senses." They work together to classify fifteen objects by the sense that they affect. They discuss the sense organs and complete a chart. Finally, they sort mystery items from a bag which the teacher...
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Basic Safety Practices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners demonstrate an awareness of how to use basic safety practices accordingly. They classify substances that are safe and unsafe to taste and touch. In groups the students explore different substances and explain how they are safe...