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Creative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a creative writing activity in which they write about a scar they have on their body. They discuss where they got the scar and describe sensory details about the experience and also how it made them feel,...
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The Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Your learners engage their five senses every day without knowing it. Help them identify their experiences and extend their understanding with a month full of lessons designed for the five senses. Kids focus on a different sense every...
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Sensory Elements in the Environment

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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Poetry: What's on Your Plate?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create original poetry on the subject of food.  In this poetry writing lesson, students use sensory details about a food item to create a class poem.  Students then write short poems with one sensory detail and add...
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Let Us Be Sensible

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars describe the five senses. They perform an investigation using sensory organs associated with each of the senses. Students identify, describe and extend repeating relationship (pattern) found in common, objects, sounds and...
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders develop compositions on self-selected topics. They choose a topic based upon their ability. Individual pupils earn points for each activity completed. Students use descriptive writing as they support their composition...
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the quality of writing while focusing on the use of sensory words to convey meaning and ideas. The power of similes and metaphors is emphasized while they create and edit works of writing. The skill of descriptive...
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The Sensitive Scavenger

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create multi-sensory scavenger hunt worksheet to be used on a scavenger hunt throughout the schoolyard habitat area to introduce students to concepts of biodiversity and interdependence within a habitat.
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Message in a Bottle

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a short story about being stranded on a deserted island. After a brief geography review of locations at various latitudes and longitudes, 6th graders draft their story about being stranded. They use sensory and...
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Standards Focus: Recognizing Vivid Details, Of Mice and Men

For Students 8th - 12th
In this recognizing details worksheet, students read 3 excerpts from chapter 3 of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, underlining each word that evokes some sensory stimulation (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). Students also respond to...
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How Does It Feel?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify the textures of materials in their environments in order to expand their language, math, sensory, and observational skills. In this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to describe...
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An Awareness of Light Made Simply Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners with sensory perception issues discover the properties of light through a series of excellent hands on activities. They look at beams of lights in a darkened room; use a kaleidoscope and optical illusions as they experience the...
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Mardi Gras Madness

For Teachers 8th
CStudents create a sensory chart in on the topic of Mardi Gras. They design a brainstorm web using Inspiration and complete creative writing assignment. Students write a poem about Mardi Gras that is presented to the class at the final...
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Understanding Immigration Through the Use of Triante Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read a book about emigrating to America. They create and illustrate a triante poem using sensory words, depicting something they liked about the story.
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Constant Craving

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students experience the effect of sensory stimulation through a guided visualization. They explore possible genetic relationships between drug addiction and the nervous system by reading and discussing, "Genetic Studies Promise a Path to...
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Powerful Poetry Presenting the Writer's Soul

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students research Langston Hughes poetry for his use of figurative language. In this poetry analysis lesson plan, students research the life and poetry of Langston Hughes and his use of vivid words. Students complete 23...
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Hand Sensitivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile lesson, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Students experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory data...
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Don't Tell. Show!

For Students 3rd - 8th
As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.
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Book Cover Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design book covers. In this graphic design lesson, students are introduced to designing book covers. Students develop skills on how to promote their designs to clients. Students then create their own book covers.
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Bugs

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners explore the wonders of bugs. For this bug lesson, students examine various types of bugs. Learners make crafts, sing songs, discuss nutrition, and investigate different types of insects.
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Theology…the Use of Silence in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Immerse your class in the Middle Ages with a thorough history instructional activity. After viewing examples of illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells, they discuss how these were the mode of keeping and storing...
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Beach Exploration

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Little ones will absolutely love this lesson. It's all about the beach and what they can find while sifting through the sand. A large bucket of sand filled with hidden items is brought into the classroom. Learners will discuss what kinds...
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Here's My Family

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Family traditions help to instill personal values, social norms, and the warmest of childhood memories. Elementary and secondary learners share their favorite family traditions with a fun diorama project. Using modeling clay, they create...
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Falling Leaves Poetry Spinners

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Why settle for autumn leaves as classroom decorations when you could use autumn poetry? After taking a nature walk and collecting fall artifacts, including seed pods and fallen leaves, learners demonstrate the movement of the season with...

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