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Mystery of the Senses-Taste
Students investigate the senses involved with taste.  In an activity, students demonstrate the way that our senses of touch and smell combine with taste.  Blindfolded, and with "plugged" noses, students taste foods.  They complete a test...
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Multi-sensory Writing
Students use their senses to help describe special place they have been.  They write short sensory-image essay that incorporate all five of their senses, and identify sensory language while reading different pieces of literature.
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Eggs Filled With Sound-Five Senses
Students use their five senses to examine an eggs with objects inside them. They use their hearing to identify the object in the egg and open them to see if their guess was correct. They end the lesson by discussing their sense of hearing.
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Sound All Around Us
Students make predictions about how sound is formed. They view and discuss a video that explores sound formation and attempt to identify the origin of different sounds.
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I Can See and Feel the Change in the Seasons
Students use their senses to investigate the changes in the seasons. They discuss how the Earth moves around the sun and its tilt. They practice using new vocabulary and examining the different seasons.
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Using Your Senses
Students analyze the Alabama quarter and discover information about Helen Keller. They participate in an activity requiring the use of the five senses. They write about a time they were brave.
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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The Sensitive Scavenger
Students create multi-sensory scavenger hunt worksheet to be used on a scavenger hunt throughout the schoolyard habitat area to introduce students to concepts of biodiversity and interdependence within a habitat.
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Sound Vibrations
Students examine how vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear. Students experience vibrations using several of their senses.
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Living and Nonliving Things
First graders distinguish between living and nonliving objects, and compare living organisms and nonliving objects.
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The Five Senses - Learning the Senses
Students learn what each sense does for the student.
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Taste (Gustation)
Learners conduct various experiments to see if different parts of the tongue are more sensitive to different characteristics of food.
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Using My Senses
Second graders identify human and insect senses and where they are located on the body. They maintain a cricket terrarium for experimentation. They realize the value of the senses by observing, recording, discussing and drawing conclusions.
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Sense of Sight Lesson
Students sequence what they saw in the book Maisy's Nature Walk. In this sequencing lesson plan, the teacher reads the book and the children listen and observe. Once the book is read, the students have to sequence what Maisy saw on her...
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My 5 Senses
In this senses booklet students complete the five senses booklet by filling in what they do with each sense and then illustrating the sense.
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Take a Walk!
In this five sense illustration worksheet, students draw pictures of some of the things they experienced on their walk. Students illustrate what they saw, heard, smelled, and touch.
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Reacting to the Environment
In this environment worksheet, students read 3 statements about animals and plants sensing something in their surroundings. Students write in how the plant or animal reacts to what it senses. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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How Do Living Things Detect Stimuli?
In this living things worksheet, students write in 4 causes and effects of how living things detect stimuli in their environment. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Amazing Senses
In this five senses worksheet, students investigate their sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch by taking a walk and writing their observations.
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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses
Third graders decide if it is possible to identify something using only the senses of taste, smell and hearing. They listen to a CD of animal sounds with their eyes closed and attempt to identify the animal. Next, they smell an air...
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Five Senses-Introduction
Students explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.
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The Senses
Students explore activities involving the five senses.  They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks.  They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects.  They practice...
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Mystery of the Senses-Touch
Students test the skin's range of sensitivity.  Students complete a "Touch Areas" activity.  They discuss their results with the class.  Students make conclusions about which parts of the body are most sensitive to touch.
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Mystery of the Senses-Vision
Students view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does.  They explore how illusions distort our sense of perspective, because they deceive us into seeing what we expect to see. ...