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Rainforest Alliance

Growing a Rainforest in Our Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Give your classroom decor a boost with a rainforest themed mural highlighting what class members learned through their five senses—taste, touch, see, smell, and hear. Scholars create a rainforest filled with trees and animals using their...
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Brigham Young University

Out of the Dust: Cubing Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Imagine using a six-sided cube to encourage readers to analyze a topic in greater depth. Create a cube, label each of the six sides with one of Bloom's comprehension levels, and you're ready to launch a discussion of a text. Although...
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Curated OER

Talking Duck

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study how animals communicate through their senses and signals. They investigate how animals survive using their communication skills and create a commercial based on the research.
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Curated OER

This is My Neighborhood

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students predict the things that they may see, smell, or hear in their neighborhood. They take part in a neighborhood walk, creating a rough map of their neighborhood as they go. Upon return to the classroom, students create a final map...
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California Academy of Science

Guess That Spice

For Teachers 1st - 7th Standards
From medical treatments to cooking, people have been using herbs and spices for thousands of years. Perform a blind smell test of household herbs and spices to engage students in learning about ancient spice trading. Research the history...
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Curated OER

Ears Here!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in an interactive video to review the five senses. They perform hands-on activities to test their sense of hearing and play a hearing game from the Internet.
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PPT
Curated OER

Imagery: Show, Don't Tell

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A vampire, the beach, a bedroom, the school cafeteria. Writers are encouraged to add sensory details (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound) to bring these things to life.
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Curated OER

Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
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Interactive
Curated OER

ESL: commonly Confused Words-Quiz 4

For Students 4th - 6th
This quiz provides learners an opportunity to assess their understanding of several commonly confused words. Words like cloths and clothes, pail and pale, and sense and since are included. It's beneficial to discuss some of these...
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PPT
Curated OER

Reading Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Present your class with an overview of poetry-related information. The slides are clearly organized by topic, starting with reading poetry, ending with myths, and touching on everything from the five senses to open and closed forms of...
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Curated OER

Rockpool Adaptations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
For this rockpool adaptations worksheet, young scholars study a rockpool habitat and compare it to their own habitat. Students use their senses to describe a rockpool habitat. They bring in items from home and items from a beach to make...
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Curated OER

Passive Voice Exercise

For Students 8th - 10th
Use this online, interactive resource to assess your English language learners' sense of the passive voice. There are 10 incomplete sentences shown, and users must select which of three options contains the correct verb tense. 
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Curated OER

Sharks

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Learners research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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Curated OER

Crafting Poetry: A Sensory Journey

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experiment with poetry devices to write poems. In this poetry instructional activity, 10th graders participate in learning stations. Students create a word pool and select a word from the list to create a line of poetry....
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Curated OER

Writing Descriptions of "My Favorite Place"

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students write a descriptive writing piece. In this writing activity, students use a visualization exercise to add more descriptions to their writing.
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Curated OER

Visualizing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a radio announcement after reading Strega Nona. In this visualization lesson, students investigate visualization strategies. After reading Strega Nona, students complete a graphic organizer and produce a radio...
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Curated OER

Seaweed Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read the book Seaweed Soup and learn about matching. For this matching lesson plan, students read the given book, and have to keep track of all the different bowls, cups, spoons, and napkins on the table by matching them up.
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Curated OER

Monster Senses

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a story that contains many sensory words to describe an object. They listen a second time using a signal to indicate when they hear a sensory word. They write a short story about a monster using appropriate...
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K12 Reader

Choose the Adjective

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Is this worksheet challenging or chewy? Allow your pupils to choose the correct adjective for 18 sentences in order to find out.
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Kenan Fellows

Evaluating Sensors and the Impacts of Physiological Stress: Designing a Wearable Device for Rescue Workers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A long-term project has scholars consider ways in which sensors help monitor physiological stress levels of rescue workers. They design and create a portable device for this purpose. Techies to the rescue!
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PPT
Springfield Public Schools District 186

Form and Structure of Poetry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
If anyone suffers from metrophobia—the fear of poetry—the PowerPoint on the elements of poetry may help alleviate their worries. The presentation introduces learners to poetic elements, including simile, metaphor, and personification....
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Curated OER

Observing a Stream Ecosystem

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars use their five senses to explore a river ecosystem. They experience how their senses provide them with additional information about the environment through the use of teacher made stream boxes.
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Curated OER

Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Pineapple Investigations

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use all of their senses to explore a fresh, delicious pineapple. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in activities that encourage sensory exploration, problem solving, creative-thinking, language skills, and the...
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Curated OER

Wigglers, Tumblers, & Bloodsuckers

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the life stages of a mosquito. For this animal biology lesson, students read Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema and complete several activities including an experiment with mosquito larvae, an activity...

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