TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Color Is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia
How does one experience synesthesia- the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Which Types of Sounds Do You Know?
For this lesson, students learn about the five senses, identify objects that make sound, and take a fun fact quiz at the end.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Awesome, Weird, Cool Not!
From observing a cat to touching and describing mysterious things in brown paper bags, 4th graders learn to understand that specialized senses and precise words go hand in hand in developing good inquiry skills.
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Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]
This is a publication on the human brain and how it works. Gives details on the neuron, how the senses interact with the brain and much more. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Wonder Pill: Placebo 1
Investigate how the brain can be fooled into incorrectly processing sensory information. Conduct an experiment to fool someone into thinking you've touched his or her hand.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Halloween Activty: Pumpkin Matching
A game challenging students to match pumpkins by combining, categorizing, and visual spatial skills. Move quickly and make sure to keep the pumpkins from touching the sides.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
NBC
Nbc Learn: Science of Innovation: Motion Controller for Virtual Reality
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Fabulous Five
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.
Other
Skin: Online Word Search Puzzle
Find words associated with skin (like scab, scar, germs, and senses) in this word search. When finished, rescramble the letters and play again.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste
An image of "The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1618 (Oil on panel, 176 x 264 cm).
New York Times
New York Times: Multimedia Slideshow: El Greco
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the "New York Times," narrates a slideshow of the work of the enigmatic El Greco, touching on El Greco's artistic influences, his sense of himself as an artist, and other interesting insights.
Curated OER
Kenyon College: Thigmotropism in Tendrils
What is thigmotropism? Do plants have a sense of touch? What causes plants to curve toward the stimulus? Animated illustrations help to provide these answers and more. Hint: highlighting the text makes it easier to read.
Curated OER
Kenyon College: Thigmotropism in Tendrils
What is thigmotropism? Do plants have a sense of touch? What causes plants to curve toward the stimulus? Animated illustrations help to provide these answers and more. Hint: highlighting the text makes it easier to read.
Other
Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Aesthetics
The term 'aesthetics' concerns our senses and our responses to an object. If something is aesthetically pleasing to you, it is 'pleasurable' and you like it. If it is aesthetically displeasing to you, it is not pleasurable and you don't...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders
Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Hormones
[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...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Synesthesia
Have you ever seen something and associated it with a taste? If so, you many have Synesthesia. This condition is not widely publicized but may be present in as many as 1 out of every 200 individuals. Learn more about "joined perception"...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Mountain Beaver
Some scientists think the Mountain Beaver is the world's most primitive living rodent, similar in appearance and behavior to animals that lived 60 million years ago. They have small eyes and ears and luxurious whiskers, and are, like...
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