TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Nerve Racking
This lesson describes the function and components of the human nervous system. It helps young scholars understand the purpose of our brain, spinal cord, nerves and the five senses. How the nervous system is affected during spaceflight is...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: With Sense Verbs
This page explains the use of adverbs and adjectives with verbs of the five senses and provides examples.
Read Works
Read Works: Sensing the World Around Us
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the five senses. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Sense and Sensibility
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sense of smell and the sense of taste. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Reading With Our Eyes, Fingers, Toes, Ears and Nose
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...
Other
Siemens Science Day: Life Science: Fifth Sense
A hands-on science activity where students will explore how the body uses the five senses to make decisions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sense Suspense
In this language development lesson, Kindergarten ELLs learn the five senses, classify objects using the five senses, and create an ABC book modeled after Bruce McMillan's Sense Suspense in which they demonstrate their learning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Five Senses How They Relate to Our World
This instructional activity will demonstrate and incorporate the use of the five senses. Through hands-on and exploratory experiences, students will gain an understanding of the importance of the five senses. Students will also gain an...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Five Senses
In this lesson plan, students discover the five senses through literature and the Internet. Students create a presentation to demonstrate the five senses. Students also become aware that not everyone has all five senses.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Great to Be Me!
This instructional activity addresses the similarities and differences among people. Incorporating the literature of Eric Carle and a virtual field trip focusing on healthy habits and the five senses, students will have a greater sense...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Five Senses
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...
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Sensory Play
Fun sensory activities to do at home with the family.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Can Our Eyes Fool Our Taste Buds?
Engage young learners in science with this poem and simple experiment from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids by Pomelo Books.
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?
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Pieces of Mind: Old Brain, New Tricks
Conduct an experiment to find out how various senses compete during the learning experience. Explore the relationship between age and language by employing research methods of interviewing, transcription and statistical analysis.
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 learners to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Day at the Beach
A Day at the Beach entices students to think about what makes a perfect day at the beach including something from all of their senses.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Design an Experiment Testable on 50 People Dealing With Your 5 Senses
Young scholars design an investigation about one of the five senses using the process of the scientific method.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...
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Senses: Online Word Search Puzzle
Have fun finding words associated with the five senses: smell, taste, touch, hearing, and sight. When finished with the game, rescramble the word search and play again.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Our Senses
Read this digital picture book about our five senses.
Other
Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Science Ideas
A great resource to discover fun new activities to use in your classroom. Activities are age-appropriate, and span several science topics.