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The Five Senses
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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Our Senses
Students practice identifying the five senses using such things as a fluff ball, train whistle, tennis ball, package of potpourri, lollipop
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Engineering the Senses
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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The Eyes Have It!
Reading essays about deep-sea expeditions open this lesson plan on crustacean vision. Marine biology explorers study the compound eye and then complete a worksheet in response to all they have discovered. Although the lesson plan doesn't...
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Bioluminescence fascinates most upper elementary scientists. Display images of different glowing deep-sea organisms and discuss their environment. Young biologists then experiment with images and different colors of filtered light. In...
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Sensory Visualization chart
In this sensory visualization worksheet, students are provided with spaces to record their senses after a teacher has given them a visual prompt.
Magic of Physics
Eyes and Sight
A short interactive allows scholars to view a model of the anatomy of an eye that provides a description of how each part works and models how the parts function together. A short quiz on both the anatomy and the functions allows pupils...
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Cardboard Tube Syllabus
Construct paper tubes and then try out a few optical illusion tricks:
See a virtual hole in your own hand
Get a grasp of how the eyes combine images
Notice that one eye is dominant over the other
Reveal how your eyes adjust to...
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Anatomy of the Human Ear
Young scholars examine the human ear and its function. In this anatomy of the human ear instructional activity, students view drawings of the ear and learn about the structure of the ear through handouts and glossaries. This...
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Sense-sational
Students investigate the five senses. They participate in the lesson for one week with each day devoted to one sense being sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch. They also cover the concept of being part of a global community where one...
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My Five Senses
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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Blind as a Bat?
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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How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
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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Five Senses
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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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses
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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Sight
Students discover how the sense of sight helps us recognize each other and explore color, motion and distance.
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I Can See the Sun
In this reading worksheet, students learn the sight words "I can see" as they make an 8 page book about their sense of sight. Students read about what they see in a garden, then color the pictures.
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Lesson Plan Seven: Sensorama
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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Senses
In this early childhood senses worksheet, learners match the words sight, touch, hear, taste, and smell to the appropriate body parts.
Aquarium of the Pacific
Sensational Sharks
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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The Senses
Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab
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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Touch and Feel Box
Students investigate their sense of touch to help become more descriptive with their observations. In this sensory lesson plan, students reach inside a box to feel an object then guess what it is. Students then use both senses of touch...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab (read without sight)
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...