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Read Works

Read Works: Sense and Sensibility

For Students 6th Standards
[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.
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Activity
University of Washington

Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Introduction to the Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
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Lesson Plan
University of Washington

Our Chemical Senses: Olfaction Experiments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides information on our chemical senses. "Students learn how to investigate the olfactory system and then find out how to plan and carry out their own experiments."
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things

For Students K - 1st
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects

For Students K - 1st
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
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Other

Senses: Online Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Fabulous Five

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.
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Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial explains how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fuller Brooch is the earliest known personification of the Five Senses. This splendid circular brooch is made from hammered sheet silver. The center part is decorated with five figures who represent the five human senses. In the...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Secret Agent George

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this "Five Senses" game, George is headed to Mabel's Department Store to pick up some items, but he needs to remember what they are. Help George identify items by what they look, smell, sound, taste, or feel like.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Which Types of Sounds Do You Know?

For Students K - 1st
For this lesson, students learn about the five senses, identify objects that make sound, and take a fun fact quiz at the end.
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Lesson Plan
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Can Our Eyes Fool Our Taste Buds?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Engage young learners in science with this poem and simple experiment from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids by Pomelo Books.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Ontario Council for Technology Education: Sensory Garden Design [Pdf]

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this project, young scholars will design a sensory garden. The area to be designed is for a flower bed 3' wide, 5' long and 3' high. The design must be wheelchair-accessible from all sides. Students will research the different sensory...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...
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Graphic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.

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