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Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt
Students explore their local environment. For this sensory awareness lesson, students identify various physical factors in their environment using their senses.
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Follow the Scent
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a hunting activity. For this smells lesson, students discuss how animals track each other through a keen sense of smell and how humans rarely do the same. Students utilize...
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Good Senses
Learners examine how the brain can link or senses and how our tongue determines the basic tastes. In this five senses lesson students complete a taste test.
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Village Descriptions
Learners 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. Learners find...
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Hand Sensitivity
Young scholars experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile activity, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Young scholars experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of...
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My Five Senses
Learners investigate the five senses. In this senses lesson, students explore the nervous system. Learners examine how the body receives information through the five senses.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson plan, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Picky Eaters
High schoolers study taste receptors and explain how genes can influence them. In this flavor lesson students view videos on picky eating and complete an activity.
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My Five Senses 2
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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Taste, Touch, and Vision
Students investigate the five senses. For this fives senses survival lesson students complete an activity about their senses.
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Imagery Chart
In this imagery worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the five senses that they observe. Students complete 5 sections.
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Imagery Tree
In this imagery worksheet, students write their observations using the five senses for a topic. Students complete 5 sections and write 1 sentence.
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Living with Visual Impairments
Students study what causes visual impairment and disability later in life. In this visual impairments activity students complete lab activities that includes assisting a person with vision problems.
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Comparing Different Types of Corn
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.
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Thai Children's Trust: School for the Blind
Students explore their five senses by experimenting with classmates. In this blindness instructional activity, students utilize blindfolds while performing everyday activities and discuss the inherent challenges of not having vision....
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Measuring Visual Acuity
Students examine the principles of visual acuity and how it pertains to sight. In this measuring instructional activity students complete several activities on vision.
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Visualizing
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...
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Exploring Sensory Details in Fiction and Nonfiction Text
Second graders analyze storytelling devices by examining sensory details in literature. In this descriptive writing instructional activity, 2nd graders define the 5 senses and practice using descriptive vocabulary words in their writing....
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Taste Treat Writing
Young scholars 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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Observation
Students study the different kinds of observation: fact and opinion. In this observation lesson students complete an activity that allows them to use their senses to make observations.
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It Feels....
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.
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Found a Peanut
Students describe a peanut. in this peanut activity, 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...
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The Touch N Feel Box
Students 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...
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation
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.