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Curated OER

Using Our Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their five senses and describe what they sense, describe ways the senses affect their lives, and observe the way that a pediatrician uses his/her senses and tools to examine patients.
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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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Engineering and the Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore nutrition. In this nutrition instructional activity, students discuss a person's sense of taste and how it is different for each person. Learners discuss favorite foods and how they relate to nutrition. Students cut out...
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Curated OER

Remote Sensing - What Can We See When We Can't Touch?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover how remote sensing is used to identify the signatures of life even when the particular life form is not directly observable. They investigate how a satellite "sees" objects on the surface of Earth.
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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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My Five Senses 2

For Teachers K
Students investigate the five senses. In this five senses lesson, students answer essential questions about the use of the five senses as they interact with their environment. They use a computer software program to make a concept web...
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Title: Digital Photo Storytelling on Five Senses, a project Based Learning Activity by Mary Gore

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the 5 senses. In this technology skills instructional activity, students participate in digital storytelling workstations that feature each of the 5 senses. Students create digital cameras and digital voice recorders to...
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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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Curated OER

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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Curated OER

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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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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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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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Five Senses Crossword

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this five senses crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 12 clues to identify the correct words that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Curated OER

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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Working with Willows

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
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ARKive

Nocturnal Animals

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
How do those nocturnal animals see in the dark? This perplexing question does have an answer. First, little ones use their sense of touch to determine the name of a mystery object, then they listen closely to identify various animals by...
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Messenger Education

Look But Don’t Touch—Exploration with Remote Sensing

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Mars is home to the tallest mountain in our solar system, Olympus Mons. In this set of two activities, learners review geologic land formations through the analysis of aerial maps. They then apply this knowledge to aerial maps of objects...
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Mystery Box

For Teachers K
Students use their sense of touch to describe an object in the mystery box. In this mystery box lesson, students use linguistic abilities to describe the object. Students give as much detail as they can as to what they feel that object...
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Draw What You Feel in the Bag: Art Game

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Here is a great game to play on a rainy day or as a warm up. Kids feel an object in a paper bag, they do not attempt to identify it, they simply draw what they feel. This results in a contour drawing based on line, feeling, and texture....
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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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Reading Without Seeing: Louis Braille and the Braille Alphabet

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students study Louis Braille and the history of the Braille alphabet. They participate in an activity using the sense of touch to determine how the Braille alphabet works.