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Touch and Discover
Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. For this touch and discover lesson, students describe items. Students sort items using a Venn diagram.
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Come To Your Senses
Write narratives that include ideas, observations, or memories of an event or experience, and be sure to use concrete sensory details! Groups utilize a few of the famous I Spy books in order to create narratives that utilize sensory...
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Taste Test - Combining Sentences
Students combine sentences to create compound sentences. They write about creating their own soda, then make their own soda, comparing and contrasting it with a national brand. They write a paragraph containing compound sentences.
Agriculture’s Lasting Heritage
Apples Around Us
Apple tasting launches an investigation of the story and travels of John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed. After listening to his story, class members craft a summary of the tale, chart his journeys on a map, and sample different...
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We Taste
In this unique handwriting skills worksheet, students create a small book on all the parts of a pizza, color the pictures and then write each part of the pizza on the lines provided.
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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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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream
Young scholars learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students travel upstream to discover how, like salmon, a homey smell can lead them, too.
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My 5 Senses Book
Pupils create a 5 page My 5 Senses book. They type 1 sense on each page and select 4 corresponding pictures to go with the sense.
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Sense-Ability
Students use comparisons, graphing, patterning, and sorting, and develop language skills as they explore the five senses.
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Is It Safe to Go In? Water Quality of Bathing Areas in the EU
Using your senses, apprehend the effects of contaminants in water. With a global focus, young scientists conduct a safe experiment by tasting sugar and salt water with different dilutions. After reviewing threshold limits, learners write...
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In Touch with Apples
Students read "How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World", the story of a girl who traveled the world to find the ingredients to make her apple pie. They conduct a series of interdisciplinary activities including testing their senses,...
American Institute of Architects
Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying special attention to...
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Non-Action Verbs
A verb is something you do — but can you always see the action? Use a slideshow presentation to clarify the differences between verbs that describe actions, and verbs that describe senses, preferences, and emotions.
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Conventions: Adjectives
Investigate adjectives with writers. They define adjectives and create their own sentences describing objects found at home using adjectives correctly. Focus on the five senses and sensory details.
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Out of the Dust: Guided Imagery
A guided imagery exercise is a great way to get readers thinking about writing. As part of their study of Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse’s 1998 Newbery Medal winning verse novel, class members listen to a reading of one of the poems from...
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Summer Body Activity: A Nose Workout
Learners have sensory experiences with the sweet smell of discovery. In this early childhood science activity, students use their sense of smell as they create and compare their very own fragrance essences with a variety of provided...
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Colonial Rules
How did Colonists react to British rule prior to the American Revolution? Give your high schoolers a taste of oppression with this role-play activity, then let them come up with a revolution of their own. This excercise is intended to...
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Exploring Learned and Innate Behavior
Middle schoolers explore the differences between learned and innate behavior among humans and monkeys. They complete an assignment and read articles about two studies, which used similar test methods to show that infants and monkeys...
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Tasters' Choice
Pupils taste foods, some of which are familiar foods and some of which are uncommon foods. They compare and contrast the tastes and graph their likes and dislikes.
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A Tasty Experiment
Students work together to determine if smell is important to being able to recongize food by taste. They try different foods with different textures and hold their nose. They create a graph of their results.
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Hidden Objects
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream
Learners participate in an experiment that shows them how to use their senses to find their way "home." This experiment is based on the video that shows how salmon find their way to their home stream.
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Sensation and Perception
In this psychology instructional activity, students complete a 5 short answer quiz on sensation and perception. They explain how the five body senses are used to collect information about the environment.
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Tongue Map
Students explore human anatomy by conducting a human senses experiment. In this taste instructional activity, students identify the main purpose of a tongue and how it enhances our eating habits. Students utilize baking coca, lemon...