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Colors of Winter-Body Parts/Senses

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Fun is in the air as learners with special needs engage in sensory-filled activities. They discuss color, snow, cold, winter, and body parts while touching and smelling various objects. They discuss the parts of the body with relation to...
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students record observations and create drawings and models of anatomy using their five senses. They describe the structures of a neuron and analyze each of their functions. They compare and contrast the typical structural features of a...
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Pancakes, Pancakes (Elementary, Science)

For Teachers K - 1st
Read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomi De Paola then participate in different activities which practice skills such as English language development, using non-standard measurement, fine motor skills, dramatic play, and using our five senses.
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Using Our Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their five senses and describe what they sense, describe ways the senses affect their lives, and observe the way that a pediatrician uses his/her senses and tools to examine patients.
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Our Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice identifying the five senses using such things as a fluff ball, train whistle, tennis ball, package of potpourri, lollipop
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Sense of Touch

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify their five senses by reading a story.  For this human anatomy lesson, students read the book, Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr, and touch a variety of objects.  Students describe and record each object they touch and...
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Use Your Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kids love to guess what's hidden in the bag! This classic lesson allows them to do just that by using two of their senses: their sense of touch and their sense of hearing. Objects are hidden inside a sock, and pupils must guess what they...
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Exploring Food with Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore properties of fruits and vegetables using their five senses. In this sensory activity lesson, students study fruit and vegetables through a microscope, using their sense of touch as they are blindfolded, and with their...
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All About Me: My Senses

For Teachers K
Students explore the world around them and identify their five senses and the parts of their bodies that are associated with each sense.
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Engineering and the Senses: Smell

For Teachers K
Students define the sense of smell. In this smell sense lesson, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the importance of smell to...
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The Relationship of the Five Values to the Human Personality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the five senses and how they are sorted throughout the brain. After reading about each type of mind, they discuss ways in which they can focus on each one on a daily basis. As a class, they discover ways in...
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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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Scents And Sense-Abilities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how the five human senses function. They work in small groups, each group focusing on a specific sense. Each group then creates a 'Sensing the World' poster which combines all of the information gained through in-class...
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Space Race

Sensory Detectives

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Test your learners' sensory awareness with three hands-on activities that ask pupils to use their other senses to identify and describe everyday objects hidden from sight.  
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My Five Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore their 5 senses. In this 5 senses instructional activity, students participate in activities that require them to use the senses of smell, touch, hearing, taste, and sight.
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Aquarium of the Pacific

Sensational Sharks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pray that you are not the prey of sharks! The class watches a video and a webcam on sharks and make observations about the different types of sharks. Learners compare two sharks and list their similarities and differences. They then...
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Using Your Senses

For Teachers K - 4th
Students make observations. In this sensory skills instructional activity, students use their senses as well as tools that sharpen their senses to make observations regarding foods and other items.
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Taste, Smell, Touch

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the senses, taste, touch and smell. In this lesson about senses, students perform experiments, or activities. Students complete three activities in order to become more familiar with the three senses of taste, touch, and...
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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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Freddie Feels

For Teachers K
Students become aware of the sense of touch and the body parts effected by touching.  In this five senses lesson plan, students touch mystery items and create a touch page.  Students discuss the body parts connected to the sense of touch.
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Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "My Five Senses." They work together to classify fifteen objects by the sense that they affect. They discuss the sense organs and complete a chart. Finally, they sort mystery items from a bag which the teacher...
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Our Five Senses Box

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss how their five senses help to identify objects. They select items from a mystery box and with their eyes closed they attempt to identify the object. They give answers in complete sentences.
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Five Senses-Introduction

For Teachers K
Pupils explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.