Curated OER
Creating an Interesting Setting
In this setting worksheet, students fill out a chart for seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, and hearing in a setting. Students complete 20 boxes total in the chart.
Curated OER
The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts
Students make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. For 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...
Curated OER
Reading List: See
In this reading list worksheet, students practice printing the word see by tracing the 4 examples. Students then read the 5 sentences that use the word see.
Curated OER
Mystery of the Senses-Vision
Students view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does. They explore how illusions distort our sense of perspective, because they deceive us into seeing what we expect to see. ...
Florida State University
Florida State University: Vision and Color Perception
A high-level scientific explanation of the way the eye senses light and sees images and color. Excellent graphics help you visualize complex workings of the human eye.
Other
Lens Shopper: Anatomy of the Eye
Learn about the human body's own "camera" as you explore the inner workings of the human eye. This resource is displayed as a three-dimensional, interactive animation.
The Tech Interactive
Make a Splash With Color
The companion website for an exhibit housed at the Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose. The exhibit explores and explains how our eyes see color, the words we use to describe colors, and how the eye works.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Five Senses Walk Around the School
First graders take a five senses walk and record what they observe.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: The Human Eye
Written by a former author of Biology textbooks, this page describes not only color vision, but the anatomy of the eye, and color blindness. Easy to understand language.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Crab Boat: Senses: Five Human Senses
Todd, the crab boat captain uses his five senses to bring the crabs to shore. Can you help him?
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: The Retina
A not-too-complicated explanation of vision and rods and cones.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Eye Cross Section
Test your knowledge of the human eye with this interactive labeling exercise.
abcteach
Abcteach: Senses Flashcards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Benham's Disk
This lesson plan has a simple experiment students can do to help them understand how we see color.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Image Formation/detection
Students discover the four parts of the eye are the most instrumental in the task of producing images that are discernible by the brain.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 4 Ps4 2: Light and Vision
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 4-PS4-2: light and vision.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
In this third part of his series on light and color, Colm Kelleher discusses wave-particle duality and its relationship to how we see light and, therefore, color. [4:23]
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Bird in a Cage
Have fun with this optical illusion. Learn about after images with this experiment.