BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Taste
What are the basic tastes? Where is information about taste detected in the body? In this lesson students taste four mystery substances and learn that the tongue is covered with taste buds, which contain taste receptors that communicate...
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Cardiff University: The Physiology of Taste: Taste (Gustation)
This is a tutorial on the sense of taste. It provides a detailed description of the taste buds and the chemistry involved in taste.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Do You Have the Willpower to Taste Something Sour?
Do try this mouth-puckering science fair project to find out if people of all ages love sour tastes, or if there a difference between the sour preferences of kids and adults. You might be able to sell creations of your own based on your...
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...
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.
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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring Your Taste Threshold
Some people are more susceptible to flavors than others. This experiment asks you to test your threshold for the three types of taste our tongues are capable of experiencing: salty, sweet, and sour.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Taste and Smell
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Imagine you open a gallon of milk, and you suddenly smell a foul odor. Your sense of smell has informed you that the milk has spoiled. So you pour the spoiled milk...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: The Sense of Taste
In this interactive object, learners examine the structure and function of the sense of taste.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Your Sense of Taste
Investigate the taste receptors on your tongue in this Life Saver tasting experiment.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: The Senses: Tasting
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompaning quiz, explains our sense of taste.
Read Works
Read Works: The Science of Taste
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sense of taste. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Taste and Smell Questions
This is a 10-question quiz pertaining to taste and smell.
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.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tickle My Taste Buds
This engaging interactive helps children learn that different foods have different tastes.
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...
University of Washington
Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
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...
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...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Sound Bites: Tasting the Texture of Classical Music
Did you know that your sense of hearing can determine texture? This Science Buddies science fair project has you experiment with four major eras in western music to determine the texture of the music. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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.