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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: The Sense of Smell

For Students 9th - 10th
In this animated object, learners trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex.
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Read Works

Read Works: Through the Nose

For Teachers 8th
[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.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers:wild Places: Follow Your Nose

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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."
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Nose

For Students 3rd - 8th
It sniffs and smells, but how does it work? Find out more in this nose video and activity guide. [4:22]
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Which Types of Sounds Do You Know?

For Students K - 1st
For this lesson, students learn about the five senses, identify objects that make sound, and take a fun fact quiz at the end.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Smell

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Your Nose

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Dog Scents: The Super Nose of Man's Best Friend

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Sensory Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
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]

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Taste It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Handout
Other

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Tasty Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Activity
Treehut

Suzy's World: How to Attract a Shark

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Fabulous Five

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.
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Curated OER

Exploratorium: Your Sense of Smell

For Students 3rd - 8th
Dinner is cooking and boy does it smell good. Understand how our sense of smell works at this Exploratorium site.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

The Senses

For Students 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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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Secret Agent George

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Dogs See With Their Noses?

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Have You Seen My Mother?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...

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