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Sense-sational

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the five senses. They participate in the lesson for one week with each day devoted to one sense being sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch. They also cover the concept of being part of a global community where one...
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All About the Senses

For Students 2nd
In this senses worksheet, 2nd graders use their sensory receptors to collect information. Students complete short answer questions regarding what they observed, felt, smelled, tasted, and heard with their senses.
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Setting Senses!

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this senses worksheet, students write what the setting of a story is, and then draw a picture of the setting. Students then imagine what it would be like to visit the setting, and list things they might see, hear, smell, feel and taste.
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Crossword: Our Senses

For Students 4th - 5th
In this health activity, students find the words that are found in the crossword puzzle related to the topic of our senses like sight and hearing.
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I Belong to.....(The Senses)

For Students 5th - 8th
In this neuroscience for kids instructional activity, students identify whether each of the 20 body parts listed belongs to the eye, ear, nose, or mouth.
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Sense-itive Issues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the difficulties of adapting to the loss of different senses. They work in small groups, each developing a fictional superhero who experiences a loss of one of sense and must compensate for it with his or her other senses.
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Senses Used to Observe Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this senses worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by writing in the 5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
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Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
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Sensing Somethong

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are taught that they can gather information about objects using the five senses of vision, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. They are told that some sensing, like sight, is done remotely. Students observe how a camera can...
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The Case of the Careless Zookeeper

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Herbivores and carnivores just don't get along. Using a box of animal crackers, classes collect data about the injury status of herbivores and carnivores in the box. They complete the process of chi-square testing on the data from...
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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Sense You Asked!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, brainstorm words that relate to the 5 senses after going on a field trip. The groups collect their words and create a piece of writing about the trip.
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Can You Guess The Flavor?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct a tasting experiment. In this senses lesson, 2nd graders read The Five Senses and brainstorm different tastes. They work in pairs, one blindfolded and the other recording. The blindfolded student eats one skittle...
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Let Us Be Sensible

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students describe the five senses. They perform an investigation using sensory organs associated with each of the senses. Students identify, describe and extend repeating relationship (pattern) found in common, objects, sounds and...
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Outdoor Observation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use observation materials to record what they find outdoors. In this senses lesson plan, students use their five senses to observe things outside. They use a clipboard, pencil, crayons, magnifying glass, and their senses...
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Visualization: Cricket in Times Square

For Teachers 4th
After reading The Cricket in Times Square chapter titled "Caught in the Kitchen," learners list three describing details about the characters and setting. Groups collaborate to find sensory details to support their character assertions....
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10,000 Steps?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Conduct an experiment to determine the accuracy of pedometers versus pedometer apps. Class members collect data from each device, analyze the data using a hypothesis test, and determine if there is a significant difference...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners explore the senses. In this Applied Science lesson plan, students investigate the items in "feely" boxes with their hands, both touching the items and shaking the boxes to hear the sound the items make. Learners also smell and...
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Crafting Poetry: A Sensory Journey

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experiment with poetry devices to write poems. In this poetry lesson, 10th graders participate in learning stations. Students create a word pool and select a word from the list to create a line of poetry. Students complete...
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Our Sense Organs And Their Uses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sense organs worksheet, students determine facts about our sense organs and their uses. Students write fifteen multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blank answers.
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Imagery

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students write using imagery. In this descriptive writing lesson plan students write a descriptive paragraph about their favorite season. They use a chart to compile words related to their senses and emotions.
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Crazy Chemistry Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students study water molecules, cohesion and surface tension.  For this molecule cohesion lesson students create chemical reactions that cause a balloon to inflate and another one that results in soap suds.
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The Lifesaver Descriptive Writing Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners observe all of their senses and practice descriptive writing while eating Lifesavers. They write silently about what they are tasting, smelling, and hearing until the candy is dissolved.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.