SEDL
Sedl: Five Senses
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses
This lesson plan site delves into the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. Students will be able to describe the ways senses affect their lives and how a pediatrician uses his/her senses to examine patients.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Introduction to the Senses
This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Senses
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial explains how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Five Senses
The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch. The lesson will introduce each of the five senses one at a time. Students will then be assessed through a multiple choice...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Senses
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.
Other
Senses: Online Word Search Puzzle
Have fun finding words associated with the five senses: smell, taste, touch, hearing, and sight. When finished with the game, rescramble the word search and play again.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Five Senses
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
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...
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.
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Other
Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]
This is a publication on the human brain and how it works. Gives details on the neuron, how the senses interact with the brain and much more. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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.
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.
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...
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Fabulous Five
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.
Other
Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Aesthetics
The term 'aesthetics' concerns our senses and our responses to an object. If something is aesthetically pleasing to you, it is 'pleasurable' and you like it. If it is aesthetically displeasing to you, it is not pleasurable and you don't...
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...
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...