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Feely Balloons

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use their sense of touch to identify different types of solids. In this "Mystery Solids" lesson, students feel various balloons filled with items such as rice, flour, salt, beans, etc. They use their senses to come to logical...
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Can You Guess The Flavor?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct a tasting experiment. In this senses lesson, 2nd graders read The Five Senses and brainstorm different tastes. They work in pairs, one blindfolded and the other recording. The blindfolded student eats one skittle...
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The Nervous System and the Effects of Drugs

For Students 6th - 7th
In this senses worksheet, students use webbed information to answer several questions. Students read about each one of the five human senses in order to demonstrate an understanding of the material.
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Give Me Five at Christmas Time

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study about senses by taking a walking field trip, creating a word bank, reading a story and singing a song.
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Let Us Be Sensible

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students describe the five senses. They perform an investigation using sensory organs associated with each of the senses. Students identify, describe and extend repeating relationship (pattern) found in common, objects, sounds and...
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Outdoor Observation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use observation materials to record what they find outdoors. In this senses lesson plan, students use their five senses to observe things outside. They use a clipboard, pencil, crayons, magnifying glass, and their senses to find...
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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Multi-sensory Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use their senses to help describe special place they have been. They write short sensory-image essay that incorporate all five of their senses, and identify sensory language while reading different pieces of literature.
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KS3 Bitesize

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete exercises using their five senses to improve their writing skills. In this writing skills lesson, students complete activities blindfolded and using their five senses. Students then select an abstract noun and describe...
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Writing About the Zoo Trip

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice writing. In this five senses writing lesson, 2nd graders describe their experience on the field trip they took to the zoo. They work as a class and independently to come up with different things they saw, smelled,...
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Village Descriptions

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses instructional activity, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class. ...
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Oobleck Versus Gloop

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explain that we use our senses to make observations and that the observations often describe properties of an object or substance. They make oobleck, then perform a series of tests on it.
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Touch

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students discover how sense of touch helps us explore our world by feeling it and learning the size, texture and shape of things.
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We Taste

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this unique handwriting skills worksheet, students create a small book on all the parts of a pizza, color the pictures and then write each part of the pizza on the lines provided.
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Tasters' Choice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils taste foods, some of which are familiar foods and some of which are uncommon foods. They compare and contrast the tastes and graph their likes and dislikes.
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Fish Anatomy

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Add a handy reference sheet about fish anatomy and functioning to your learners' biology or animal notebooks. Though this resource doesn't provide any practice, it makes a useful addition to any study of anatomy, biology, species, fish,...
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Taste Buds

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sample several sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods. They determine what part of their tongue tasted each flavor.
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Special Senses

For Teachers 9th
In this special senses worksheet, 9th graders briefly describe the structure of a taste bud and the pathway a signal takes to the brain. Then they list the five basic taste sensations and homeostatic values of taste. Students also...
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Brain and Senses

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the brain through multiple senses. In this biology activity, students experiment with different activities involving taste, memory, touch, and sight to understand how the brain works. Students work in partners and...
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A Taste of Blackberries

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a shared reading of Doris Buchanan's, A Taste of Blackberries. They read about grief in the loss of a best friend and examine the skills of a responsible family member.
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The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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Using My Senses

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students observe crickets in the terrarium. Have them record in their journal any evidence of crickets having senses. Then they answer questions like these: How do they use their sense organs? Where are they are located?
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Out of the Dust--Appeals to Senses

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students list examples of appeals to the senses in the poem Out of the Dust.  In this Out of the Dust lesson, students discuss ways that the author brings the story alive through appeals to the senses.  Students discuss examples and how...
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A Tasty Experiment

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students work together to determine if smell is important to being able to recongize food by taste. They try different foods with different textures and hold their nose. They create a graph of their results.