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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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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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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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Other

Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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).
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tasty Apple Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
In the past, we made apple tasting graphs. Since graphing isn't big in terms of Kindergarten Common Core, this is a great way to update an old tradition with a CCSS-aligned activity!
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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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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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1618 (Oil on panel, 176 x 264 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Sense of Taste

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Sense of Taste", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1618 (Oil on panel, 64 x 108 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Sense of Taste

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Sense of Taste", created by Jusepe De Ribera from 1613-16 (Oil on canvas, 117 x 88 cm).
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Tu Lengua

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your tongue is one tough worker. Read and learn more about the different functions of your tongue.
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 3 10 14: Let's Play . . . Musical Ice Creams?

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about something called Lickestra and how its creators have found a fun way to create a new experience with their senses of taste and hearing. Includes video. [3:02]
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Curated OER

Univ. Of Washington: That's Tasty

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of Washington, this site goes into great detail describing the sense of taste through pictures, links, and solid information.
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Curated OER

Univ. Of Washington: That's Tasty

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of Washington, this site goes into great detail describing the sense of taste through pictures, links, and solid information.
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Curated OER

Univ. Of Washington: That's Tasty

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of Washington, this site goes into great detail describing the sense of taste through pictures, links, and solid information.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Univ. Of Washington: That's Tasty

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of Washington, this site goes into great detail describing the sense of taste through pictures, links, and solid information.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Univ. Of Washington: That's Tasty

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of Washington, this site goes into great detail describing the sense of taste through pictures, links, and solid information.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Univ. Of Washington: That's Tasty

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of Washington, this site goes into great detail describing the sense of taste through pictures, links, and solid information.
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Graphic
Curated OER

University of Washington: Synesthesia

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever seen something and associated it with a taste? If so, you many have Synesthesia. This condition is not widely publicized but may be present in as many as 1 out of every 200 individuals. Learn more about "joined perception"...
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Other

Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Aesthetics

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...
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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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