University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Animal Senses
Information site provides examples of several animals and their amazing adaptations to their environments.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Life Science for Grade 4 With Wild Kratts
This unit uses Wild Kratt videos, hands-on activities, and document resources to teach about animal senses. Extensions for further learning are also provided.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Assistants Activity Plan
The animals need help! For this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will take the role of Animal Assistants and use their spatial skills to help save the day. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or...
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Inside the Animal Mind
Venture into the minds of animals and explore their intelligence and emotions. Listen to the experts, play activities, and participate in an online poll.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Center of the Atlantic Ocean: Animals and Their Senses
Captain Ed Smith and his dog, Rocco, are exploring all the amazing senses animals have. Join him and discover with them.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shark Attack! The Hunt
This interactive module from the NOVA: "Shark Attack!" web site details the six senses that sharks use to find and capture their prey.
McGraw Hill
The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Sense of Smell
This informative site provides information on the olfactory receptors, olfactory epithelium, and olfactory bulb. Detailed drawing supplement the text along with an animation that depicts the movement of molecules through the nose.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: How to Map Your Sense of Touch
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This would be...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Remote Sensing
Discusses the importance of radar and satellite sensing in weather forecasting. Well illustrated with useful animations showing how radar and satellite sensing works.
Read Works
Read Works: Animal Instinct
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that are able to sense a disaster before it happens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
The Franklin Institute
In Quiry Almanack: Touching
Let your students get a feel for their sense of touch by perusing this site. Site includes interactive activities to use in the classroom.
The Franklin Institute
In Quiry Almanack: Smelling
Site provides fun activities for kids to do in the classroom to help them better understand the sense of smell.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Best Tech Creation Tools
Check out this list of terrific tools for tech creation that offer a wide variety of engaging end products kids can create, from stories to animations to music to games.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Animal Bytes: Gorillas
This site from SeaWorld/Busch Gardens provides a wealth of information regarding gorillas. Content includes a focus on gorilla habitats and distribution, physical characteristics and special adaptations, senses, behavior, diet,...
Mind My Education
Mind My Education: The Life of Environments
This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Nasa Online: Sense of Smell
Animation demonstrates how the nose perceives and interprets a smell.
Other
Bio Anim
BioAnin presents 3-D labeled images of all of the major systems of the human body, for example, the digestive system and the endocrine system. The images are embedded in slideshows. The site also has interactive 3-D models that can be...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: The Sense of Smell
In this animated object, learners trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Have You Seen My Mother?
This lesson will introduce the sense of smell. It will show how an animal, such as a bat, finds its baby by using the sense of smell. Students will have the opportunity to view information on the Internet to learn more about bats. They...
Read Works
Read Works: Animal Instinct
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about animals that seem to instinctively know when a natural disaster is about to happen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Ordering Game
Sequencing skills are the focus of this interactive game. You must be able to put fractions, decimals, whole numbers, and negative numbers in correct order to win and make the train move down the tracks. Immediate feedback given to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Awesome, Weird, Cool Not!
From observing a cat to touching and describing mysterious things in brown paper bags, 4th graders learn to understand that specialized senses and precise words go hand in hand in developing good inquiry skills.
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