Students explore their local environment. In this sensory awareness instructional activity, students identify various physical factors in their environment using their senses.

Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a hunting activity. In this smells instructional activity, students discuss how animals track each other through a keen sense of smell and how humans rarely do the same....

Middle schoolers examine how the brain can link or senses and how our tongue determines the basic tastes.  For this five senses lesson students complete a taste test. 

Students respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses lesson, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class.  Students find...

Students experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile lesson, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Students experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory data...

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.

Young scholars explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Young scholars explain their descriptions.

Students study taste receptors and explain how genes can influence them.  In this flavor lesson students view videos on picky eating and complete an activity.

Students investigate the five senses. In this five senses instructional activity, 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...

Students investigate the five senses.  In this fives senses survival activity students complete an activity about their senses. 

In this imagery worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the five senses that they observe. Students complete 5 sections.

In this imagery worksheet, students write their observations using the five senses for a topic. Students complete 5 sections and write 1 sentence.

Middle schoolers study what causes visual impairment and disability later in life.  In this visual impairments instructional activity students complete lab activities that includes assisting a person with vision problems. 

Students explore different types of corn. In this science lesson, students compare sweet corn, field corn and Indian corn. Students gather specific information. Additionally, students discuss their findings. 

Students explore their five senses by experimenting with classmates. In this blindness lesson, students utilize blindfolds while performing everyday activities and discuss the inherent challenges of not having vision. Students view a...

Students examine the principles of visual acuity and how it pertains to sight.  In this measuring lesson students complete several activities on vision. 

Students create a radio announcement after reading Strega Nona. In this visualization lesson, students investigate visualization strategies. After reading Strega Nona, students complete a graphic organizer and produce a radio...

Second graders analyze storytelling devices by examining sensory details in literature. In this descriptive writing lesson, 2nd graders define the 5 senses and practice using descriptive vocabulary words in their writing. Students read...

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.

Students study the different kinds of observation: fact and opinion.  In this observation instructional activity students complete an activity that allows them to use their senses to make observations. 

Students practice using descriptive language. In this 5 senses lesson, students feel various items and describe to their teacher how they feel. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.

Students describe a peanut. in this peanut lesson, students get a peanut and they observe it using all five senses to write a very detailed description. They combine their peanuts with that of their group and the group needs to find the...

Learners discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight.  In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...

Students use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses lesson, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.