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Physical Differences

For Teachers K
Students read the book We Can Do It! and discuss how we are all physically different. In this physically different lesson plan, students read the book, discuss their differences, and participate in a smelling and touching activity to see...
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Touch and Discover

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils work together to identify and categorize objects. They have to identify the object on touch because they are blindfolded. They record their data and describe the objects once they can look at them.
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Sensory Elements in the Environment

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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Smells Like Christmas, Exploring the Nose

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners discover that the sense of smell helps us to enjoy life and explore unsafe conditions. They smell Christmas by making gingerbread ornaments.
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Teaching Your Child How to “Stress Press”

For Students K - 6th
Are you or your scholars feeling stressed? Use the coping skill resource, Stress Press, to relieve the feeling that may be growing inside you when a big test or presentation is on its way. 
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LESSON 4: Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like (K-2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars show competency in Art objectives by designing and creating props (glasses-looks, ears-headband, and [feel] texture board) for each of the given senses.
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What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify how they are feeling and deal with feelings constructively. In this conflict resolution lesson, students explore their feelings through discussion. Students read and complete the What Can I Do? e-sheet. Students "think...
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Outdoor Observation

For Teachers K
Students examine their outside environment. They use their senses to make observations of the four seasons. They keep a chart of all of the data they have collected.
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An American Scene Painter

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students study the work of American scene painter Charles Burchfield. In this visual arts lesson plan, students research the nature paintings of Burchfield and then paint their own watercolor scenes in his style.
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Edible Bug Project

For Teachers K
Students recognize the characteristics of insects.  In this edible bugs lesson, students observe the body parts of an insect.  Students create an edible insect using a grape, carrot sticks and sorrel stems and leaves.  Students share the...
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The Shadow Knows - Creating Shadows

For Teachers K - 1st
Young learners recognize a shadow and witness how shadows occur when light is blocked. They access streamed video, standard video, and websites in order to engage in their study of how light is naturally blocked to create shadows. An...
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Objects Vibrate

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students strike a tuning fork and dip it in water. They sprinkle cereal flakes on a drum, than tap the top of the drum. Students stretch a rubber band between two fingers and pluck it; stretch the elastic farther and pluck it again. Then...
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Animal Coverings

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast the types of coverings found on animals. They identify a wide variety of animals in a museum room. They classify animals based on their coverings as well.
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Talking Duck

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners visit a local wetland or WWT centre and record their observations by writing or drawing on the downloadable pupil activity sheet.
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Oceans-A Fact Haiku

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create haiku poems. In this poetry lesson, students listen to the sound of the ocean from an audio file and write a haiku poem about oceans.
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Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

For Teachers K
Students respond to movement cues in the rhyme "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear", perform steady beat patterns on body percussion, and sing sol-mi patterns in a chant in this Kindergarten music lesson. Emphasis is on meeting State and National...
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The Woods and Pond

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in hands-on activities to explore their natural surroundings. They recognize that ponds and woods are ecosystems and compare differences between the two. They identify trees by their bark and leaves.
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Read Works: Your Five Senses by Rachelle Kreisman

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains the five senses: taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing. A comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet are available.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Five Senses

For Students K - 1st
The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch. The lesson will introduce each of the five senses one at a time. Students will then be assessed through a multiple choice...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Christmas Bear and His Five Senses

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come along with Eric as he teaches Christmas Bear how to use his five senses.
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Nibbles: Teaching Children About the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Some activities to help young children learn about their five senses.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Touch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...

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