Curated OER
Feel Your Way!
Students investigate the sense of touch as they examine the texture of items in the classroom and from their homes. They watch a computer based video about the senses and draw items that are rough, smooth, soft, and hard.
Curated OER
The Senses
Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...
Curated OER
Mystery of the Senses-Touch
Learners test the skin's range of sensitivity. Students complete a "Touch Areas" activity. They discuss their results with the class. Learners make conclusions about which parts of the body are most sensitive to touch.
Curated OER
Our Five Senses Box
Students discuss how their five senses help to identify objects. They select items from a mystery box and with their eyes closed they attempt to identify the object. They give answers in complete sentences.
Curated OER
Working with Willows
Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
Curated OER
Lesson Plan Six: Sense of Touch
Students listen carefully to story and use their sense of touch to add imagination and "touch clues" to the story.
Curated OER
Can You Tell By Touch?
Students feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: How the Five Senses Change With Age
This article discusses the link between anatomical changes related to aging and sensory loss. Delves into the problems associated with each of the five senses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Power of Touch
This video segment explores the role of touch in the development of young animals, including humans. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Touch." [2:57]
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Touch
How does the sense of touch work? Is the sense of touch more sensitive in some parts of the body, such as fingertips, than in others? In this lesson plan students explore the sense of touch by identifying mystery objects with their eyes...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Haptics: Touch Command
Students experience haptic (the sense of touch) feedback by using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and touch sensors to emulate touch feedback recognition. With four touch sensors connected to LEGO NXTs, they design sensor attachments that...
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Soc.: Best of Wonder Science: Temperature Touch O Meter [Pdf]
An experiment to explore how one's sense of touch experiences changes in the temperature of water.
The Franklin Institute
In Quiry Almanack: Touching
Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: The Senses: Touching
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the skin, as a sense organ, allows us to touch and feel.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do We Itch?
The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. Emma Bryce digs deep into the skin to find out.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Touch
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] It might sound good to you to have a condition where you feel no pain. But actually this type of condition would be very dangerous. What would happen if you strained...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses
This lesson plan site delves into the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. Students will be able to describe the ways senses affect their lives and how a pediatrician uses his/her senses to examine patients.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: How to Map Your Sense of Touch
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This would be...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Introduction to the Senses
This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sensitivity Tester
Explore skin sensitivity on different areas of the human arm by performing a blindfold test with paperclip points touching the skin. Compare and contrast results.
Treehut
Suzy's World: Touch
At this site find out how you can feel hot and cold and try this experiment using your sensory nerves.