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Engineering the Senses

For Teachers K
Students become aware of texture and the sense of touch. In this senses activity, students become aware of their dominant hand. Students draw pictures using texture. Students describe a texture of an item in a mystery bag.
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Sensory Visualization chart

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this sensory visualization worksheet, students are provided with spaces to record their senses after a teacher has given them a visual prompt.
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Depth Spinner

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Put a new twist on your collection of optical illusion activities. Affix the linked printable spiral to a drill, record player, or some other rotating tool. Have learners stare at the spinning disk for only 15 seconds and then look away....
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Squirming Palm

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You will need an electric drill and some Velcro™ in order to have this activity available for your class. It is, however, an intriguing display of optical illusion. After watching a spinning disk (provided), viewers look at one of their...
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Blind Walk

For Teachers K
Students experience what it would be like to live without the sense of sight, identify three things on a blind walk by using senses other than sight, and discuss what they learned from the experience with the whole class.
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ORBIS Sight-Saving

For Students 6th - 7th
In these eye care worksheets, students read about a nonprofit organization with the goal of eliminating preventable blindness called ORBIS. Students then answer five questions about the program and one short answer question.
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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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Amazing Senses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
For this five senses worksheet, students investigate their sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch by taking a walk and writing their observations.
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How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students notice how various images and colors update constantly as they are affected by factors such as distance, background and lighting. They also examine how optometrists developed a standard to evaluate eyesight.
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Cloze Passage: Our Sense of Sight

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this cloze worksheet, students read a passage and fill in blanks with words from a word list. The passage is about the sense of sight.
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Living with Visual Impairments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study what causes visual impairment and disability later in life.  In this visual impairments lesson students complete lab activities that includes assisting a person with vision problems. 
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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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Identifying Matter by Sound and Feel

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the physical properties of matter. In this matter lesson, students collaborate as they participate in an activity that requires them to identify objects using their senses of sight and touch.
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Blind as a Bat?

For Teachers K - 5th
Imagine using your ears and voice to see. That is what bats do with echolocation. Demonstrate how echolocation works with this fun game for your classroom. Buzz, buzz!
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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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Mystery of the Senses-Vision

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does. They explore how illusions distort our sense of perspective, because they deceive us into seeing what we expect to see. ...
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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decide if it is possible to identify something using only the senses of taste, smell and hearing. They listen to a CD of animal sounds with their eyes closed and attempt to identify the animal. Next, they smell an air...
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PERSISTENCE OF VISION

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore how vision effects viewing.  In this vision lesson students build a persistence of vision model of flying birds.
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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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Melt Away

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore objects before and after heating using their senses.  In this matter and energy lesson, students experiment with a variety of objects and use their senses (except taste) to make predictions and record observations about...
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I Can See You

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore living without sight. In this senses lesson, 2nd graders review the different senses and what they use for each sense. Students discuss what it would be like to not be able to see and they read a story about a...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab (read without sight)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners consider the senses. In this sight and touch lesson, students discover what it is like to function like a person who is blind. They work in groups and individually on various activities to experience this condition. This lesson...
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Rainbow Milk

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete activities to learn about rainbows and the importance of dairy in their diet. In this sense and diet lesson, students discuss rainbow colors, the importance of sight, and the importance of dairy in a healthy diet....
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Measuring Visual Acuity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the principles of visual acuity and how it pertains to sight.  In this measuring lesson students complete several activities on vision. 

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