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
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Imagery
Explore the literary technique of imagery to see how sensory language contributes to the meaning and feeling of a poem in this animated video [1:23] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sensory Perception Questions
This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to sensory perception.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Taste a Smell Test
Take the jellybean test to see how your sense of smell enhances taste.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tickle My Taste Buds
This engaging interactive helps children learn that different foods have different tastes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Nervous System Study Guide
Use this review guide of the human body nervous system to understand its importance to the human body.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Write and Read Braille
There is a special writing system for the visually impaired called braille. This activity will show you how to read with your fingers.
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: Mn Step: The Five Senses
An activity where students try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The lesson plan is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Cuerpo Humano Interactivo
This is a tour of the human skeleton, the senses and the excretory system. The content is displayed with pictures and interactive graphics.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Tongue Map
Explore the sense of taste by testing and mapping the taste buds of the human tongue. Locate areas where the tongue senses sour, sweet, salty and bitter tastes.
Other
Skin: Online Word Search Puzzle
Find words associated with skin (like scab, scar, germs, and senses) in this word search. When finished, rescramble the letters and play again.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Sniffing Safari
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring outdoor scents. Students will learn basic information about outdoor scents; students will also use online drawing tools to design an outdoor scene with...
BBC
Bbc Health: Hearing Loss
Everyone will, over time, loose some of their hearing but did you know that magnitude of your hearing loss will depend on you and your lifestyle. This informative delves into the causes of hearing loss and how you can protect your hearing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Senses Hearing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the path of a sound wave as it travels through the ear and is interpreted as sound in the brain.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Senses Seeing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart points users to a website explaining how the eye works, and then gives students practice on remembering the parts of the eye. Play the game - Guess whose eye!!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Senses Taste
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes our sense of taste and asks some fun questions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Fabulous Five
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.