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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Haptics: Touch Command

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experience haptic (the sense of touch) feedback by using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and touch sensors to emulate touch feedback recognition. With four touch sensors connected to LEGO NXTs, they design sensor attachments that...
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Soc.: Best of Wonder Science: Temperature Touch O Meter [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment to explore how one's sense of touch experiences changes in the temperature of water.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: The Senses: Touching

For Students 3rd - 8th
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the skin, as a sense organ, allows us to touch and feel.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Does a Touch Sensor Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners look at human senses and their electronic imitators, with special focus on the skin and touch sensors. They have a chance to handle and get familiar with the LEGO touch sensor, including programming LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Music by Touch

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, students learn programming skills and logic design as they program robot computers to play sounds and rotate a wheel when a touch sensor is pressed, and then...
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Read Works

Read Works: News Debate Out of Touch

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the appropriateness of sports like touch football, soccer, and tag at recess. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Touch Screen

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about how capacitances add up in series and parallel by exploring the physics behind a touch-screen device using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also...
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: How to Map Your Sense of Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This would be...
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University of Washington

University of Washington: The Senses Touch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Do you know what the largest sensory organ of the body is? Use this site on skin and its sense of touch to learn more.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Manga Touch' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In 'Manga Touch' by Canadian author Jacqueline Pearce, Dana tries to fit in at her school and with Japanese students she meets on a school trip to Japan. She feels excluded from the 'in' group of school peers. This teacher's guide...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Midas Touch

For Students K - 1st
This is an interactive ebook of the Greek Myth "Midas Touch". Children can choose to read the book independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
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Starfall

Starfall: Midas Touch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A read-aloud of the Greek myth The Midas Touch.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Touch and Feel Box

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will identify objects through their sense of touch and increase vocabulary skills by using describing words. Lesson plan for K-2nd grades.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
For this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
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Other

Typing Club: Learn Touch Typing

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Touching Point?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 7-problem quiz/practice to confirm your understanding of the construction.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Myth of King Midas and His Golden Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
Iseult Gillespie shares the myth of King Midas.
Article
Read Works

Read Works: Your Five Senses by Rachelle Kreisman

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains the five senses: taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing. A comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet are available.
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Curated OER

Touch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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Starfall

Starfall: If I Could Touch the Sky

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read and listen to this illustrated children's poem about what could happen if I could touch the sky.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Typing Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A link to a Typing tutorial to use while learning and/or practicing touch-typing.
Interactive
Other

Keybr: Typing Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Free online typing tutor will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Animal Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how animals communicate with visual, sound, touch, and chemical signals.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fuller Brooch is the earliest known personification of the Five Senses. This splendid circular brooch is made from hammered sheet silver. The center part is decorated with five figures who represent the five human senses. In the...

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