Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 4
Twenty-eight lessons make a unit that focuses on skills practice. Lessons explore r-controlled vowels, past tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, and two-syllable words. Pupils read a story, answer questions, and draft a descriptive essay...
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Good Senses
Students examine how the brain can link or senses and how our tongue determines the basic tastes. In this five senses lesson plan students complete a taste test.
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Amazing Senses
In this worksheet on the five senses, students follow directions and take a walk outside, noting what they see, hear, smell, taste and feel. Students then record their experience.
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Taste Test
Third graders, in groups, complete a science lab in which they perform a blind taste test on eight different foods--some sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. They determine which parts of the tongue "taste" which kinds of foods. they record...
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Senses of Taste and Smell
Students perform experiments to learn about their sense of taste and smell. In this taste and smell lesson, students watch as a blindfolded student tries to identify sounds and the direction they originate from. Students observe a...
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The Five Senses - Barefoot Walking Trip
Students go outside and take a little barefoot walking trip. They talk to each other about their experiences on the trip to help them remember everything they can. They go on a walk for at least 15 minutes. Ask questions during the trip.
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Our Sense Organs And Their Uses
In this sense organs worksheet, students determine facts about our sense organs and their uses. Students write fifteen multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blank answers.
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My Five Senses
In this recognizing the body parts involved with the senses worksheet, students use the words in the word bank to identify the ears, hands, tongue, eyes, and nose. Students write 5 answers.
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Our Sense of Taste
Students explore the relationship between the senses of taste and smell using a blindfold taste test. In partners, they taste different foods with their noses plugged and unplugged. They create a life size outline of the human body to...
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Engineering and the Senses
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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Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste
Second graders explore the four familiar tastes and taste buds.
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How Things Taste
In this sense of taste worksheet, students cut and paste different pictures into four categories, according their taste. Categories include salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
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Sensory Detectives
Test your learners' sensory awareness with three hands-on activities that ask pupils to use their other senses to identify and describe everyday objects hidden from sight.
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The Stolen Smell
Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson is a well-rounded...
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Your Sense of Touch
In this senses worksheet, students identify pictures of items that are hard or soft to the touch. In the following four pages, kids use their discernment skills to identify things they can see, smell, and hear. Students color the...
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Taste and Smell
Young scholars experiment with sense of smell, and how it relates to sense of taste.
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What Is It? Tommy Tastes
Students complete multi-curricular to learn about senses and sensory words. In this sensory words lesson, students discuss the five senses and the anatomy of a tongue. Students complete a food tasting activity and find descriptive words...
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The Investigation Of The Taste Buds
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students investigate the sense of tastes as they experience salty, sour, bitter, and sweet tastes. Students then discover how taste buds do their job.
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The Tongue...A Sense of Taste
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students consider 4 types of tastes, recognize the papillae or receptors on the tongue, and locate and label the different taste sense organs on the tongue.
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Taste Treat Writing
Students use their 5 senses to write a paragraph about yummy treats they sample. In this writing lesson plan, students use a graphic organizer to organize their tastes and how they can write about them and then write.
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Lesson Plan One: Introduction to the Five Senses
Students listen to book See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell, by Melvin Berger, and explore five senses and sense organs
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The Five Senses
Learners use their senses to identify a variety of items in mystery boxes after listening to a read aloud of Aliki's, "My Five Senses." They taste and smell items to identify them before completing a Senses Literature Log. They label the...
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Using Your Senses
In this senses worksheet, students answer two questions about observations using the senses. Students then give reasons why each sense may not give them all the information they need when making observations.
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My Five Senses
Students investigate the five senses. In this senses lesson, students explore the nervous system. Students examine how the body receives information through the five senses.