The wonderful world of Oobleck is entered in order to awaken your learner's sense of touch! As a warm up, learners put their hands in mystery bags in order to identify things that are wet, dry, hot, cold, hard, soft, rough, and smooth....

Students apply the scientific method by building a "Proposal for Study." They label the Observation, Hypothesis, and Prediction columns. Students listen as the teacher introduces the alternative healing methods of therapeutic touch and...

Students explore the sense of touch. They listen to and discuss the book, I Can Tell By Touching, observe a demonstration of cold, and create a touch book using candy buttons, pine needles, cotton, burlap, and wax paper.

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...

High schoolers follow the thoughtful decision model and decide which kind of touching is okay and which is not as a teen. In this touch lesson plan, students also learn how to communicate those decisions.

Students become aware of the sense of touch and the body parts effected by touching.  In this five senses lesson, students touch mystery items and create a touch page.  Students discuss the body parts connected to the sense of...

Students listen carefully to story and use their sense of touch to add imagination and "touch clues" to the story.

Students explore nature artists and participate in a nature walk. In this art/nature lesson, students discuss things artists use from nature then talk a walk to find some of the same things. Students look for different shapes...

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....

Students participate in a scavenger hunt using their sense of sight. They bring various texture materials from home and discuss how things feel. Students identify the smells inside five jars. They discuss things they hear and why hearing...

Students create a multimedia collage. They identify strong personal emotions related to an event in their lives and describe them with several words. They choose symbols that are related to their emotions and arrange these symbols in an...

Students create Valentine's Day hearts in this variation of a classic activity for the early-elementary classroom. The "hands that touch the heart" is a great gift that can be given to family, friends, or fellow students. A materials...

Students use their sense of touch to identify different types of solids. In this "Mystery Solids" activity, students feel various balloons filled with items such as rice, flour, salt, beans, etc. They use their senses to come to logical...

Pupils explore an object without seeing it then draw what s/he felt.  In this touch-drawings lesson plan, students partner and place objects in a paper bag so the other person cannot see it.  Then pupils use their hands and...

Young scholars feel tree parts inside of 3 mystery boxes. Then they go outside and find the 3 trees the parts came from. They draw their favorite tree including details of the part they felt.

Students examine the emotion of anger through the poem 'A Poison Tree'. In this poetry analysis lesson, students identify and decode unfamiliar vocabulary they encounter, engage in groups discussions and complete several writing...

Students discuss five senses, compare and contrast human and insect senses, use adjectives to describe things they touch, smell, and see, and write stories in first person describing what it would be like to be size of insect.

Students touch, see, smell, and hear marine animals that live in a marina. In this marine animals lesson plan, students take field trip to a marine environment after studying the animals.

Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity activity, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use all...

Students explore the five senses. In this senses lesson, students use their senses to top their ice cream. Students compare and contrast the different toppings and write their observations, using descriptive words, in a notebook.

Students investigate the sense of touch as they examine the texture of items in the classroom and from their homes. They watch a computer based video about the senses and draw items that are rough, smooth, soft, and hard.

George Bailey learns that it truly is a wonderful life when he discovered how many lives he has touched—not to mention how many new generations of lives the story touches every year. A study guide on It's a Wonderful Life ...

Getting in the habit of practicing good dental hygeine is important for youngters. This lesson reinforces the importance. Learners have a class discussion about how they take care of their teeth, then create toothbrush holders out of...

Students examine the concept of symmetry in Lao art and apply it to their own works. They construct full-face masks by copying the stencils onto colored paper. Students apply creative touches by painting and drawing on their assembled...