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Geography Experience: Low Vision
The world is a big and beautiful place; but how do you begin to understand it when you have low vision? Here is a great set of ideas focused on transforming any small room into a sensory paradise, themed to incite understanding about...
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Sense-Ability
Students use comparisons, graphing, patterning, and sorting, and develop language skills as they explore the five senses.
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Senses -- The Touching Game
Students practice making educated guesses about objects in their hands. They guess what the object is without looking at it and choose a word that describes it. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Health and Nutrition
Students examine vocabulary words that deal with the parts of the body. They identify the body parts and organs associated with the five senses. They identify common illnesses, causes and treatments. They research various lifestyle...
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Observing Sound
Second graders study the five senses and the link between pictures and sound. In this sound instructional activity students discover that sound is vibration, it is described by volume and pitch.
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How to Write an Apology Poem
Put a silly spin on making amends with an apology poem. Budding poets think of a time they were made to apologize although they didn't mean it. They then turn their experience into a poem that offers details and ends with an explanation...
Nosapo
Writing about a Meal
You don't need to be a food critic to describe your meal accurately! A series of activities introduce learners to vivid adjectives when writing about the taste, smell, and feel of food. After working with word choice, parts of a...
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Using My Senses
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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Be a Scientist: A Kindergarten Unit
Students conduct observations using their five senses. For this science lesson, students describe different states of matter. They investigate the factors affecting mold growth.
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Get to Know Trees
Students recognize the characteristics of trees by using their five senses. In this trees instructional activity, students observe and record the characteristics of trees on a field trip. Students then are blindfolded and use their...
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The Sensitive Scavenger
Learners create multi-sensory scavenger hunt worksheet to be used on a scavenger hunt throughout the schoolyard habitat area to introduce students to concepts of biodiversity and interdependence within a habitat.
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Working with Willows
Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
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Basic Safety Practices
Learners demonstrate an awareness of how to use basic safety practices accordingly. They classify substances that are safe and unsafe to taste and touch. In groups the students explore different substances and explain how they are safe...
ARKive
Nocturnal Animals
How do those nocturnal animals see in the dark? This perplexing question does have an answer. First, little ones use their sense of touch to determine the name of a mystery object, then they listen closely to identify various animals by...
University of Minnesota
Attention and Sensory Processing
Ever wondered how your brain manages all of the information it receives every second of every day? The sights, the sounds, the smells ... each one filed away for later use or moved to the front of the line so your body can react. Through...
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Sweet and Savory Writing: Descriptive Writing
The engagement is in the details. Young scholars learn the benefit of weaving descriptive and sensory details into the fabric of their writing through the activities in this lesson. As their hands explore items concealed in bags, a...
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What's In The Beans
Visually impaired students discover objects using their sense of touch. In this exploration lesson plan, students with visual impairments use their sense of touch to discover objects hidden in a bowl of beans. If the student is not...
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Feel Your Way!
Students investigate the sense of touch as they examine the texture of items in the classroom and from their homes. They watch a computer based video about the senses and draw items that are rough, smooth, soft, and hard.
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Hidden Objects
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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Who Am I?
In this earth science learning exercise, students read the description of each animal and identify who each one is. They circle every third letter in the box to the right to check their answer.
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Living and Nonliving Things
First graders distinguish between living and nonliving objects, and compare living organisms and nonliving objects.
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Taste (Gustation)
Students conduct various experiments to see if different parts of the tongue are more sensitive to different characteristics of food.
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Four Contemporary Mexican and Chicano Plays-An Analysis
Students read use their five senses to discover Chicano plays.
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Imagery: Show, Don't Tell
A vampire, the beach, a bedroom, the school cafeteria. Writers are encouraged to add sensory details (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound) to bring these things to life.