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Curated OER

Touchy Feely Bags

For Teachers All
Students reach into the bag and grab an object. They should try to identify the object without looking in the bag or pulling the object out of the bag.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Color Poems

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils listen as the teacher reads several poems from the book "Hailstones and Halibut Bones," "My Many Colored Days," and a teacher created poem. Students choose a color and share some brainstorming ideas with the class. They write a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

U.S. History: Our Constitutional Amendments

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct Internet research about Constitutional Amendments and present oral reports on their findings. Their reports also include visual representations depicting their chosen amendment's focal point. Students discuss the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Visit to Ackland Art Museum (African Masks Exhibit)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe and describe the similarities and differences in the African Mask exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum. They use describing words to express the feelings of the masks.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.51 Touch

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand the human body's sense of touch.
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Activity
American Chemical Society

American Chemical Soc.: Best of Wonder Science: Temperature Touch O Meter [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment to explore how one's sense of touch experiences changes in the temperature of water.
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Activity
The Franklin Institute

In Quiry Almanack: Touching

For Students 3rd - 8th
Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: The Senses: Touching

For Students 3rd - 8th
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the skin, as a sense organ, allows us to touch and feel.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Touch

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] It might sound good to you to have a condition where you feel no pain. But actually this type of condition would be very dangerous. What would happen if you strained...
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Unit Plan
SEDL

Sedl: Five Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
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Lesson Plan
University of Washington

University of Washington: The Senses Touch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Do you know what the largest sensory organ of the body is? Use this site on skin and its sense of touch to learn more.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
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Website
NBC

Nbc Learn: Science of Innovation: Motion Controller for Virtual Reality

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial includes a video on William Provancher of Tactical Haptics has developed a device that combines the sense of touch with technology. Called the "reactive grip," it allows the user to experience the virtual world in a whole...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things

For Students K - 1st
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects

For Students K - 1st
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
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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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Lesson Plan
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
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Interactive
University of Washington

The Senses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Hormones

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Plants may not move, but that does not mean they don't respond to their environment. Plants can sense gravity, light, touch, and seasonal changes. Learn more about...
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...