CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.52 Taste and Smell
Understand the human senses of taste and smell.
PBS
Newton's Apple: Taste and Smell
Discusses the senses of smell and taste and describes their interconnectedness. Provides an activity to investigate the interactive nature of taste and smell.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Taste a Smell Test
Take the jellybean test to see how your sense of smell enhances taste.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: How the Five Senses Change With Age
This article discusses the link between anatomical changes related to aging and sensory loss. Delves into the problems associated with each of the five senses.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Nose Knows Smell but How About Taste?
As if sniffles and clogged sinuses are bad enough, everything seems to taste bland and flavorless when we are sick. Gather up a few volunteers, hit the kitchen, and try this experiment to find out if there is really truth to the idea...
National Institutes of Health
Nidcd: Smell Disorders
This site discusses the sense of smell and disorders associated with smell. The site provides information on what makes our sense of smell work, what smell disorders are, what causes these disorders, and whether these disorders may be...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Senses
In the following activities students can learn about the basic characteristics and structures of the brain, skull and sensory system; investigate sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; and discover how the brain and the senses are...
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
Exploratorium
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.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Smell and Taste Disorders
The Merck Manual offers an interesting article that describes ways in which your sense of smell can be affected. Diagnosis and treatment for loss of smell are also discussed.
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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Smelling and Tasting
Kids learn about the science of smelling and tasting. Two senses of the human body.
Read Works
Read Works: Your Five Senses by Rachelle Kreisman
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains the five senses: taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing. A comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet are available.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Revision Notes on the Five Senses
Learn how the sense organs are structured and how they function to provide you with five senses.
abcteach
Abcteach: Senses Flashcards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.
Read Works
Read Works: Sense and Sensibility
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sense of smell and the sense of taste. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
University of Washington
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...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Crab Boat: Senses: Five Human Senses
Todd, the crab boat captain uses his five senses to bring the crabs to shore. Can you help him?
University of Washington
Our Chemical Senses: Olfaction Experiments
This website provides information on our chemical senses. "Students learn how to investigate the olfactory system and then find out how to plan and carry out their own experiments."
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Christmas Bear and His Five Senses
Come along with Eric as he teaches Christmas Bear how to use his five senses.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.