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What Is It? Tommy Tastes

For Teachers K
Students complete multi-curricular to learn about senses and sensory words. In this sensory words lesson, students discuss the five senses and the anatomy of a tongue. Students complete a food tasting activity and find descriptive words...
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Using Your Senses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using your senses worksheet, students read a 1 page article on senses and then connect 6 body parts to their actual senses by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Five Senses - Learning With The Senses

For Teachers K
Students name the five senses, compare learning with and without the senses.
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My Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the five senses. In this senses lesson, students explore the nervous system. Students examine how the body receives information through the five senses.
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The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their five senses. In this senses lesson, students explore mystery boxes and use only one sense to determine what is inside the box. Examples of items in the mystery boxes include maracas, lemons, and cherry lotion.
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Engineering and the Senses: Hearing

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of hearing. In this 5 senses instructional activity, students consider how humans and animals use the sense of hearing along with their other senses. Students discuss the body parts responsible for the 5 senses...
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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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Using Data from Sensors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Beginning with a discussion about using technology to collect data, this resource includes a video about the next Mars rover as an example. Young scientists are taught that filtering is necessary before collected data can be analyzed....
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The Nervous System and the Effects of Drugs

For Students 6th - 7th
In this senses worksheet, students use webbed information to answer several questions. Students read about each one of the five human senses in order to demonstrate an understanding of the material.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: National Sense of Smell Day

For Students 6th - 10th
In this language skills activity, students read an article about National Sense of Smell Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble ...
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Cooking Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders taste different flavors on their popcorn. In this taste bud lesson, 4th graders make predictions about taste and dip popcorn into four different flavors. They record how the flavors tasted - sweet, salty, bitter, or sour.
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Summer Activities: Our Amazing Bodies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even size. In this early childhood science lesson, students build science and critical thinking skills as they take part in up to 6...
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Water Taste Test

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate the differences in drinking water from different municipalities and store brands. They record clarity, odor and taste descriptions in a blind taste test then compare their results as class.
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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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Taste and Smell

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students experiment to determine classmates taste and smell to find out which sends the clearest message to the brain.
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Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
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Anatomy Grade Level: First Grade - FIVE SENSES

For Teachers 1st
First graders name the five senses, identify major body structures and organs and describe their basic functions. In this anatomy lesson, 1st graders learn about the basic structures and functions of the human body and how they relate to...
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Sensing Somethong

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars are taught that they can gather information about objects using the five senses of vision, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. They are told that some sensing, like sight, is done remotely. Students observe how a camera can...
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Our Five Senses

For Teachers K
Pupils explore the five senses through hands-on and Internet activities.
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify structures of the brain, and neurons and analyze their functions.  In this nervous system instructional activity students create drawings and models of anatomy.
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Anatomy

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the basic structures and functions of the human body and how they relate to personal health.
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Introduction to Digestion: What Happens to a Hamburger?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore the human body by analyzing how food is absorbed. In this food digestion lesson, students utilize health vocabulary terms by participating in a guessing game activity. Learners discuss their own eating habits and conduct...
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Brain and Senses

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the brain through multiple senses. In this biology activity, students experiment with different activities involving taste, memory, touch, and sight to understand how the brain works. Students work in partners and...
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A Tasty Experiment

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students work together to determine if smell is important to being able to recongize food by taste. They try different foods with different textures and hold their nose. They create a graph of their results.