Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: The Sense of Smell
In this animated object, learners trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex.
Read Works
Read Works: Through the Nose
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about dogs and their sense of smell. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:wild Places: Follow Your Nose
Explore the migration behavior of various animals, and investigate the sense of smell as a tracking device for these migrations. Emulate salmons by following and scented path, and construct a map of the "river" as you head "upstream."
Curated OER
Kids Health: Nose
It sniffs and smells, but how does it work? Find out more in this nose video and activity guide. [4:22]
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Smell
Understand how the sense of smell has strong connection to the limbic region of the brain and experience how the brain associates smells with memories and emotions.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Your Nose
Your nose lets you smell and is also the main gate to the respiratory system. Read this article for kids to discover just how it works.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Dog Scents: The Super Nose of Man's Best Friend
Everyone thinks their dog's the best, but in the case of smelling ability, all dogs possess super powers. In fact, a dog's nose can be over a 1,000 times more sensitive than a human's. In this project, learn about smell from a dog's...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Sensory Perception
Learn the different types of sensory receptors, and describe the structures responsible for the special senses of taste, smell, hearing, balance, and vision.
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Other
Ontario Council for Technology Education: Sensory Garden Design [Pdf]
In this project, young scholars will design a sensory garden. The area to be designed is for a flower bed 3' wide, 5' long and 3' high. The design must be wheelchair-accessible from all sides. Students will research the different sensory...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Taste It?
Few people are aware of how crucial the sense of smell is to identifying foods, or the adaptive value of being able to identify a food as being familiar and therefore safe to eat. In this lesson and activity, students conduct an...
Other
Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Tasty Experiment
Students conduct an experiment to determine whether or not the sense of smell is important to being able to recognize foods by taste. They do this by attempting to identify several different foods that have similar textures. For some of...
Treehut
Suzy's World: How to Attract a Shark
This site from Suzy's World, which is a personal site from Suzy Cato, explores the shark's great sense of smell. Content includes shark facts and a fun (and smelly) experiment.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Fabulous Five
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.
Curated OER
Exploratorium: Your Sense of Smell
Dinner is cooking and boy does it smell good. Understand how our sense of smell works at this Exploratorium site.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is the earliest known personification of the Five Senses. This splendid circular brooch is made from hammered sheet silver. The center part is decorated with five figures who represent the five human senses. In the...
Curated OER
The Senses
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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Curious George: Secret Agent George
In this "Five Senses" game, George is headed to Mabel's Department Store to pick up some items, but he needs to remember what they are. Help George identify items by what they look, smell, sound, taste, or feel like.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch
You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Dogs See With Their Noses?
You may have heard the expression that dogs 'see with their noses.' But these creature's amazing nasal architecture actually reveals a whole world beyond what we can see. Alexandra Horowitz illustrates how the dog's nose can smell the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Have You Seen My Mother?
This lesson will introduce the sense of smell. It will show how an animal, such as a bat, finds its baby by using the sense of smell. Students will have the opportunity to view information on the Internet to learn more about bats. They...