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The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World
Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use all...
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Monster Fun Learning the Five Senses
Students explore the five senses. In this health instructional activity, students read the book Brave Little Monster and identify the five senses from the book. Students draw an illustration from the book as a follow-up activity.
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Trees
Students explore tree species based on their features. In this tree activity, students visit a wooded area and work with a partner to describe distinctive features of trees using all of the senses except "sight." A discovery worksheet...
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Taste Buds
Students investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson, students identify the four basic taste buds and their locations on our tongue. Students participate in an experiment to investigate how our taste buds work.
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Contaminated Drinking Water
Learners predict, experiment, and draw conclusions about the safety of drinking water. In this ecology lesson, students participate in an experiment to determine if they can taste or see contamination in drinking water. Data is collected...
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Our Five Senses
Young scholars use their five senses to describe what's in a mystery bag. In this senses lesson, students use a graphic organizer to collect words for a sensory poem.
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Use Your Nose
Students explore how their senses work. In this senses instructional activity, students use the sense of smell to observe various spices. Students discuss their findings.
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Sense of Sound Lesson
Young scholars listen to the book Sense of Sound and discuss the different things that they can hear. In this sound lesson, students listen to the book, and then close their eyes as the teacher makes different noises and the young...
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My Favorite Room
Students practice describing a room. In this descriptive writing lesson plan, students use all of their five senses to describe their favorite room. The teacher will model for the class by creating a word list that describe the classroom...
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Taste, Smell, Touch
Students explore the senses, taste, touch and smell. In this lesson about senses, students perform experiments, or activities. Students complete three activities in order to become more familiar with the three senses of taste, touch, and...
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Name That Taste
Students analyze taste buds. In this taste lesson, students complete an experiment in groups of four people. Students have four cups with a different substance in each cup. One student dips a Q-tip into each cup and tests on another...
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The Sense Of Touch
Students explore the sense of touch. In this science lesson plan, students participate in hands-on activities that broaden their perspectives pertaining the sense of touch.
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The Magic School Bus Makes a Stink
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover the secret to what makes things smell through their own investigations.
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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students travel upstream to discover how, like salmon, a homey smell can lead them, too.
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Summer Activities: Our Amazing Bodies
Students use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even size. In this early childhood science instructional activity, students build science and critical thinking skills as they take part in...
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Strange Sounds
Students investigate sound as a form of energy. In this energy, forces, and sound lesson plan, students explore how different sounds may be made as they make a variety of materials vibrate. Students observe the effects of vibrations and...
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The Human Body
In this human body worksheet, 6th graders respond to 13 different questions related to parts of the human body. First, they determine how many times the heart beats a minute and the 2 types of blood vessels. Then, students describe the...
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I Can See the Sun
In this reading worksheet, learners learn the sight words "I can see" as they make an 8 page book about their sense of sight. Students read about what they see in a garden, then color the pictures.
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Touch and Feel
In this touch and feel activity, students glue collected objects to the paper to match the description of how that object feels. Students use the words hard, soft, rough, bumpy, sticky, and smooth to describe objects.
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Touch and Feel
In this writing worksheet, learners choose two objects that describe each word. For example, under "soft" students write, "cotton balls" and "silk scarf."
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Which Sense?
In this senses worksheet, students choose the correct description of each sense. For example, "Rose smells good/bad" and "Lollipop tastes sweet/sour."
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Drawing Upon Our Five Senses
Students observe and create artistic representations, technological images, and scientific diagrams. They explore the five senses, the structure and function of the corresponding organs, and how the senses are connected to the human brain.
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I'm Special
Students explore their five senses and what makes them special and unique. They listen to books about their senses and participate in a taste and smell experiment. Students also create a senses journal, and create an "I'm Special" book...
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The Five Senses
Students recognize how each of the five senses works and define the related terminology. They compare and contrast the means by which the senses gather information about the world. In addition, they research how an assigned sense works...