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University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: The Basics and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers a clear definition of the science of Genetics, highlighting DNA and genes. There is a neat, easy-to-understand animated tour of the basics and an opportunity to go inside an animated cell. Student can build a DNA...
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human nervous system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
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Other

Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Do Sensors Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Through six lesson/activity sets, students learn about the functioning of sensors, both human and robotic
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is a Sensor?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners gain a rigorous background in the primary human sensors, as preparation for comparing them to some electronic equivalents in the associated activity.
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Mind My Education

Mind My Education: The Life of Environments

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...
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University of Washington

University of Washington: The Senses Working Together

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website is dedicated to the "Senses working together." Learn how to play the sensory concentration game at this website and create a sense chart.
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Other

Kindergarten Aesthetics?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The word aesthetic may seem difficult to understand, but learning through sensory experiences is not. Here are some goals and activities for teaching aesthetics to very young children.
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Next.cc

Next: Senses

For Students 3rd - 8th
Investigate your sensory system by engaging in the activities provided. Includes links to explore related sites pertaining to senses.
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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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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wordly Wise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn how to use better word choices by completing a cloze activity, listening to A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle, and completing a word web.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, students use the ocean and their five senses as inspirations to create their own unique haikus. Lesson provides assessment criteria and a list of sources.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gummy Worm Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This activity is designed to introduce descriptive writing. It can be used in grades 3-5. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Treehut

Suzy's World: Touch

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site find out how you can feel hot and cold and try this experiment using your sensory nerves.
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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
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds All Around

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students follow the steps of the engineering design process to create their own ear trumpet devices (used before modern-day hearing aids), including testing them with a set of reproducible sounds. They learn to recognize different...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the human body's system components, specifically its sensory systems, nervous system and brain, while comparing them to robot system components, such as sensors and computers. The unit's life sciences-to-engineering...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...
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Other

Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Seventh grade middle schoolers have had wide-ranging experiences with fractions and operations on fractions, but ratios and rates may be new concepts for them. This activity introduces students to the idea of rates via a familiar and...
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Article
Understood For All

Understood.org: Trouble With Self Regulation: What You Need to Know

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Self-regulation skills develop gradually, and there are ways to help your child improve. This article discusses working on self-awareness, impulse control, and goal-setting to help your child learn to self-regulate.
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Activity
University of Washington

Our Sense of Hearing Experiment: Locating Sound Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered how your ear works? This website will provide you with knowledge on how to locate sound sources among other ear information.

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