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Put Yourself in the Picture Photo Analysis
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students select historical photographs and then respond to 25 analysis questions that address the senses regarding the photograph they select.
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ENDOWING SUPPORT ELEMENTS
Students demonstrate how an actor might engage sensate reaction using 3 sets of stage props. They imagine and use as many sense reactions as they can to make the props become endowed with a reality. They use one table and chair to...
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Praise for a Color
Students discover the 5 senses by analyzing poetry. In this poetry instructional activity, students read a poem with their class and analyze how each sense plays into their understanding of the poem. Students write a poem based on a...
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Mandy
Third graders read Barbara D. Booth's, "Mandy" while noting each time they read a sensory detail. They read about the young girl in the story who is hard of hearing and determine how her other senses are heightened. Also, they determine...
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Students explore the three main forms of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. They examine concrete examples of each, using their five senses and "experimenting" to find differences in them. They find pictures of each, cut them out and past...
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Tree Friends
Students are introduced to tree structure and use. They identify their special tree using all senses except sight. Students identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium,...
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Mouthwatering Mollusks
Students investigate various forms of aquatic life. They use four senses, touch, taste, smell, and observation to explore mollusks. Students cook and taste various types mollusks, such as mussels, scallops, and squid.
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Adjectives - Describing Words
For this adjectives worksheet, students review the definition and examples of adjectives. Students study the 4 pictures and then describe them with adjectives using their 5 senses.
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A Christmas Memory
Students think about and remember a special Christmas they had with their family when they were younger. They write an essay using vivid descriptions that appeal to the senses.
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Reading Comprehension: Dog Face
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a story called "Dog Face" that has missing words. For each blank, students choose one of four words that will make sense in the story.
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Planting Phil's Garden
Young scholars study how to care for plants. In this plant care instructional activity, students observe a plant care demonstration and examine flowers using their senses. They listen to Janet Wakefield's, What If Everybody Gave? They...
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Spice It Up!
Students analyze visual artifacts from Asian descent and follow the path of famous explorers on the Silk Road. In this Asian artifacts lesson plan, students use their senses to explore and grind spices using a mortar and pestle.
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Forest Ecosystem Field Trip
Students investigate the environment by participating in a class field trip. In this botany lesson, students attend a field trip through their local park or forest while listening to a nature guide. Students practice using their 5 senses...
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Inference Multiple Choice Version 1
In this reading skills worksheet, students read 8 sets of sentences and make inferences about the given situations. Students should note why their inferences make sense.
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Four Contemporary Mexican and Chicano Plays-An Analysis
Students read use their five senses to discover Chicano plays.
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Reflecting/Writing after a field trip or other experience
Students reflect on field trips in writing. In this journal writing lesson, students write about a recent experience by using 4 of their senses to tell what they remember. They turn these into poetry.
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Osmosis and Diffusion Lab: Honey I Blew Up the Bear
Beginning biologists explore passive transport through two demonstrations and a hands-on inquiry. Spray air freshener from one spot in the classroom and have class members raise their hands as the scent reaches them. Also, place a teabag...
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Name That Taste
Students analyze taste buds. In this taste activity, students complete an experiment in groups of four people. Students have four cups with a different substance in each cup. One student dips a Q-tip into each cup and tests on another...
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Crazy Chemistry Lesson Plan
Students study water molecules, cohesion and surface tension. In this molecule cohesion lesson students create chemical reactions that cause a balloon to inflate and another one that results in soap suds.
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Oobleck
Learners incorporate within this instructional activity scientific observations, senses: touch, sound, smell and sight, classification, states of matter and surface tension. Students make a substance and use scientific observations, as...
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Analysis of Theme in Impressionist writing
Eleventh graders explore the concepts of Impressionism and theme. They choose a section of narration which presents Henry Fleming's vision of war. They analyze this section to determine which images invoke the senses: sight, sound,...
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Pumpkin Seed Experiment
In this unique lesson students participate in a pumpkin seed experiment. Students interact with the pumpkins weight, seeds and record their findings of what lies within the pumpkin once the top of the pumpkin is cut off for observations....
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What Can I Do?
Students identify how they are feeling and deal with feelings constructively. In this conflict resolution lesson, students explore their feelings through discussion. Students read and complete the What Can I Do? e-sheet. Students "think...
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Skin, Tongue and Nose
In this skin, tongue, and nose worksheet, students answer multiple choice and short answer questions about the skin, tongue, and nose. students complete 19 questions.