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Engineering and the Senses: Smell

For Teachers K
Students define the sense of smell. In this smell sense lesson, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the importance of smell to...
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Engineering and the Senses: Hearing

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of hearing. In this 5 senses instructional activity, students consider how humans and animals use the sense of hearing along with their other senses. Students discuss the body parts responsible for the 5 senses...
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My five senses

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this five senses worksheet, students list one thing each sense lets them do and what part of the body they use to do it. Students complete 5 problems.
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Crossword: Our Senses

For Students 4th - 5th
For this health worksheet, learners find the words that are found in the crossword puzzle related to the topic of our senses like sight and hearing.
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Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore their senses of smell. For this sense of smell lesson, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Learners identify scents and play an Internet game based on the sense of...
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Five Senses and Four Seasons Quilt

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the four seasons and the ways that their five senses give them information about each of the seasons. They work in groups to create a class quilt with one block for each season. Each block should include sensory details...
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Our Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice identifying the five senses using such things as a fluff ball, train whistle, tennis ball, package of potpourri, lollipop
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Five Senses Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this five senses crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 17 clues to identify the correct sense-related terms that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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The Five Senses Word Search: 10 Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this five senses word puzzle worksheet, students examine the 10 words in the word bank and locate them in the word search puzzle.
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The Five Senses of Thanksgiving

For Students K - 2nd
In this Thanksgiving worksheet, students write about what they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch on Thanksgiving in different chickens. Students complete 5 chickens about their senses.
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SCIENTIFIC ART

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students cut out pictures from magazines and create collages that demonstrate the five senses.
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Sensory Visualization chart

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this sensory visualization worksheet, students are provided with spaces to record their senses after a teacher has given them a visual prompt.
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A Holiday for the Senses

For Students K - 1st
In this Christmas five senses worksheet, students match 5 holiday pictures with the senses they go with. Example: candy cane (taste).
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Organizer
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Sensing Halloween

For Students K - 6th
For this sensing Halloween worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer with details pertaining to what they see, hear, smell, taste, and feel in association with the holiday.
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Taste (Gustation)

For Teachers K - 12th
Students conduct various experiments to see if different parts of the tongue are more sensitive to different characteristics of food.
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decide if it is possible to identify something using only the senses of taste, smell and hearing. They listen to a CD of animal sounds with their eyes closed and attempt to identify the animal. Next, they smell an air...
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Honey Tasting

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young scientists will be abuzz as they sample and compare the tasty treats produced by Apis Mellifera. 
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Using Data from Sensors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Beginning with a discussion about using technology to collect data, this resource includes a video about the next Mars rover as an example. Young scientists are taught that filtering is necessary before collected data can be analyzed....
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Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "My Five Senses." They work together to classify fifteen objects by the sense that they affect. They discuss the sense organs and complete a chart. Finally, they sort mystery items from a bag which the teacher...
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My Five Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore their 5 senses. In this 5 senses instructional activity, students participate in activities that require them to use the senses of smell, touch, hearing, taste, and sight.
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Sense-sational

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the five senses. They participate in the lesson for one week with each day devoted to one sense being sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch. They also cover the concept of being part of a global community where one...
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Sense Organs & Body Systems: Cool Facts & Trivia

For Students 4th - 12th
In this sense organs and body functions worksheet, students answer true and false questions about sense organs and body functions. Students complete 13 questions.
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The Senses

For Students 9th - 12th
In this senses learning exercise, students use a text book to complete 34 fill in the blank statements about the structures and functions associated with the 5 senses.