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Handout
Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: The Secret Life of Bats: Bat Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of an online exhibit on bats, this section focuses on bat senses: sight, olfaction (smell), echolocation, and hearing.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Crab Boat: Senses: Five Human Senses

For Students K - 1st
Todd, the crab boat captain uses his five senses to bring the crabs to shore. Can you help him?
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Five Senses

For Students K - 1st
The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch. The lesson will introduce each of the five senses one at a time. Students will then be assessed through a multiple choice...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.
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Interactive
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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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Ears and Hearing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan investigates sound waves and how the ear hears. Students create a model of the ear using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and a sheet of paper.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Hearing and the Ear

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of hearing and the ear. A sense that detects sound.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound From Left or Right?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Why do humans have two ears? How do the properties of sound help with directional hearing? Students learn about directional hearing and how our brains determine the direction of sounds by the difference in time between arrival of sound...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Misunderstood Minds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful spotlight on scientific explanations behind learning differences and strategies to aid success in school. Includes profiles of the students in the documentary as well as interactive activities designed to give site visitors a...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Hearing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand how humans can focus on familiar voices and language over other sounds, by experimenting with what classmates hear when conversations are taking place simultaneously.
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Article
WebMD

Medicine Net: Hearing and Balance Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the ear and how it works in this illustrated article on the anatomy and function of the ear.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses

For Students 3rd - 8th
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Senses Hearing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the path of a sound wave as it travels through the ear and is interpreted as sound in the brain.
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Handout
Treehut

Suzy's World: Ears

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out how your ears work and try an experiment involving your hearing.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
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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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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Kids Health: Ears

For Students 3rd - 8th
How do you hear? Watch this ear video and take the accompanying quiz to step inside the ear. [6:08]
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Website
US Senate

Senate Stories: "Have You No Sense of Decency?"

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the abrupt downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy after the damage he did with his anti-Communist witch hunts.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Sensory Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the different types of sensory receptors, and describe the structures responsible for the special senses of taste, smell, hearing, balance, and vision.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Does a Sound Sensor Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about how sound sensors work, reinforcing their similarities to the human sense of hearing. This lesson and its associated activity enable students to appreciate how robots can take sensor input and use it to make...
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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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Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Cleaning Your Ears

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives several tips for safely cleaning your ears.
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eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Mountain Community College: The Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
This online biology book chapter offers definitions and descriptions of the nervous system's components.