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Mississippi State University

The Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Your learners engage their five senses every day without knowing it. Help them identify their experiences and extend their understanding with a month full of lessons designed for the five senses. Kids focus on a different sense every...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

The Five Senses Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology

For Teachers K Standards
Young readers explore the five senses with a read-aloud anthology. Each lesson follows the routine of introducing the reading, listening to a read-aloud, answering comprehension questions, then practicing a skill. Modification and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ten Red Apples; The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
A clever lesson designed around an apple awaits your learners. Descriptive words are used to explain what they believe is inside a bag while using their five senses. Students read the story The Apple Pie Tree and are introduced to the...
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Worksheet
National Park Service

I Have Five Senses!

For Students 1st - 2nd
Which sense helps you feel a pinecone? Or smell a rose? Three worksheets prompt explorers to think about their five senses in various situations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Your Five Senses

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
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Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Using Our Senses to Observe

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Look around and explore. Little ones use their five senses with some day-to-day activities designed to guide observation and apply STEM strategies. Young scientists learn through comparing/contrasting and observing with magnifiers as...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Give Me Five!

For Teachers K
Students become familiar with their five senses and how their experiences would change without them.  In this observations lesson, students observe using their five senses in a garden.  Students illustrate what they've observed and share...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

One of Our Five Senses - Touch

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
The wonderful world of Oobleck is entered in order to awaken your learner's sense of touch! As a warm up, learners put their hands in mystery bags in order to identify things that are wet, dry, hot, cold, hard, soft, rough, and smooth....
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Printables
Lakeshore Learning

Five Senses Sorting Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Hone your senses with a fun educational game. Learners match pictures to each of the five senses before spinning a makeshift wheel, and matching their senses to their spin. 
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Activity
Nemours KidsHealth

Human Body Series - The Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Get your class up and moving with these engaging hands-on-activities that target their five senses. Children explore four different work stations that require them to look, smell, hear, touch, and taste as they record their responses...
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Assessment
California Education Partners

My Five Senses by Aliki

For Students 1st Standards
An assessment designed to examine scholars' reading comprehension skills takes place over three days. Starting with a read-aloud of My Five Senses by Aliki, learners then take notes and discuss their most memorable moments with a peer....
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Curious George: Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Curious scholars make like Curious George and use their five senses to identify mystery objects. After a brief discussion, learners watch an engaging Curious George video in preparation for an activity. Scholars visit three tables that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Five Senses

For Teachers K
Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touch are all of the five senses that are visualized in this colorful PowerPoint. Each slide includes a corresponding picture with each sense. Tip: After each sense, ask your students to share...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Our Five Senses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore human anatomy by creating an oral report in class. In this five senses lesson, students read several real life situations and identify which of the five senses help in certain situations. Young scholars create an...
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Printables
Curated OER

The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Teaching little ones about their five senses is always a fun experience. Accent your classroom with a fun image that shows real pictures of real kids hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching. 
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Worksheet
T. Smith Publishing

Your Five Senses

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Using the five senses is a creative way to write descriptively. Learners read 25 words, both nouns and verbs, and place them into the category labeled with the correct sense.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sense Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore 5 senses poetry.  In this poetry writing instructional activity, students visualize a special day and brainstorm related vivid adjectives and phrases.  Students create mindmaps of the five senses to go with their...
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Activity
Poetry4kids

Evoking the Senses in a Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Budding poets choose a topic for a sensory-filled poem. Authors describe that topic using detailed language based on the five senses. Then, switch the senses to create a fanciful poem intended to add a touch of fun to the objective. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Five Senses Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students listen to The Brave Little Monster, by Ken Baker. In this five senses lesson, students identify the different senses that characters experience in the book they are listening to. They review the senses as a class with hands on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Review of the Five Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the five senses. In this human biology lesson plan, students are given five items and identify which items match best with each of the senses. Students use objects such as a rock, hard candy, and a flower.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introducing the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners use their five senses to guess what is in the microwave. In this five senses lesson, students use their senses to guess what is cooking in the microwave. Learners are introduced to new vocabulary and listen to the book My Five...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use all...
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Curated OER

The Five Senses - Magic School Bus

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify five senses, draw parts of body that relate to each of the senses, hear different sounds in the environment, write those experiences in their journals, and list at least four objects/things that relate to each of the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use their five senses to describe what's in a mystery bag. In this senses lesson, students use a graphic organizer to collect words for a sensory poem.