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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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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.
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Monster Fun Learning the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the five senses. In this health lesson plan, students read the book Brave Little Monster and identify the five senses from the book. Students draw an illustration from the book as a follow-up activity.
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Come to Your Senses

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore their senses. In this biology lesson plan, students will learn about their senses, what affects them, and how the brain works to control our senses in a series of lab activities.
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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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The Five Senses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the 5 senses. In this biology lesson plan, students demonstrate the ability to identify objects through the use of the five senses as they complete 5 activities.
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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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Are You Aware?

For Students K - 2nd
Bring the five senses to life with a fun science experiment! Kindergartners and first graders read an explanation of the five senses, then identify which items Sophia can sense if she is blindfolded. A science explanation at the bottom...
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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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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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All About the Senses

For Students 2nd
In this senses worksheet, 2nd graders use their sensory receptors to collect information. Students complete short answer questions regarding what they observed, felt, smelled, tasted, and heard with their senses.
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My Five Senses 2

For Teachers K
Students investigate the five senses. In this five senses lesson, students answer essential questions about the use of the five senses as they interact with their environment. They use a computer software program to make a concept web...
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Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore their senses of smell. For this sense of smell lesson, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Learners identify scents and play an Internet game based on the sense of...
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Get In Touch With Trees

For Teachers K - 1st
Students feel tree parts inside of 3 mystery boxes. Then they go outside and find the 3 trees the parts came from. They draw their favorite tree including details of the part they felt.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science instructional activity, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the five senses.  In this five senses science and literature lesson, students listen to The Magic School Bus Five Senses book, stopping to identify and discuss each sense.  Students draw and label a picture of their...
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Lesson Plan Seven: Sensorama

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify five senses, and use their senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste to distinguish different objects, sounds, smells and tastes, and write their answers in the booklet.
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Feelin' Buggy

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss five senses, compare and contrast human and insect senses, use adjectives to describe things they touch, smell, and see, and write stories in first person describing what it would be like to be size of insect.
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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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Reading Without Seeing: Louis Braille and the Braille Alphabet

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students study Louis Braille and the history of the Braille alphabet. They participate in an activity using the sense of touch to determine how the Braille alphabet works.
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Working with Willows

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
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Sense-itive Issues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the difficulties of adapting to the loss of different senses. They work in small groups, each developing a fictional superhero who experiences a loss of one of sense and must compensate for it with his or her other senses.
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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing

For Teachers K - 1st
Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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Our Five Senses Affect Food Choices

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read My Five Senses: A Lion's Tale. In this five senses lesson, students understand the relationship between their five senses and how they affect their food choices. Students write journal entries about their senses and the...