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Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st
First graders taste a variety of items and record a full sentence about the way they taste.  In this taste buds lesson, 1st graders predict and then taste various items.  Students draw a picture of the tongue and show the part that...
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Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate taste buds. In this biology instructional activity, students taste several sweet, sour, and salty foods to identify how their taste buds play a role in how things taste.
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Stick Out Your Tongue

For Teachers K
Students explore their sense of taste and recognize good foods to eat. In this tasting lesson plan, students recognize that their tongue has taste buds for different types of tastes. Students create a bar graph showing their favorite...
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Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson plan, 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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A Taste of Our Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore their classroom tastes. In this lesson plan, students list the four tastes that the tongue can detect, map the individual areas of taste on the tongue, and demonstrate the ability to identify objects through the use of...
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Cooking Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders taste different flavors on their popcorn. In this taste bud lesson, 4th graders make predictions about taste and dip popcorn into four different flavors. They record how the flavors tasted - sweet, salty, bitter, or sour.
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The Investigation Of The Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students investigate the sense of tastes as they experience salty, sour, bitter, and sweet tastes. Young scholars then discover how taste buds do their job.
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The Tongue...A Sense of Taste

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students consider 4 types of tastes, recognize the papillae or receptors on the tongue, and locate and label the different taste sense organs on the tongue.
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The Senses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this senses worksheet, students use the terms listed on the eye to label the figure and describe how light entering the eye becomes an image seen. Then they name the three main sections of the ear and explain what the cochlea does.
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Taste Test

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, complete a science lab in which they perform a blind taste test on eight different foods--some sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. They determine which parts of the tongue "taste" which kinds of foods. they record...
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The Senses

For Students 9th - 12th
In this senses worksheet, students use a text book to complete 34 fill in the blank statements about the structures and functions associated with the 5 senses.