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Curated OER

TE Lesson: Can You Taste It?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate how animals adapt to use its senses to identify foods that are nutritious or noxious. They determine how they associate foods with other things such as birthdays. They discuss the role of the nervous system in the...
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Curated OER

Sense of Taste

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars swab different sections of the tongue to identify taste buds. In this sense of taste lesson, students make predictions and conduct an experiment. Young scholars experiment with a variety of flavors and discuss...
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Serendip

How Do We Sense the Flavors of Food?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
We taste with our taste buds, so why do flavors change when we have a stuffy nose? Scholars experiment with taste testing while holding their noses and then while smelling. They record their observations in pairs and come together to...
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Curated OER

The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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Using Your Senses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using your senses worksheet, students read a 1 page article on senses and then connect 6 body parts to their actual senses by drawing a line from one to the other.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Curated OER

Sensory Visualization chart

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this sensory visualization worksheet, students are provided with spaces to record their senses after a teacher has given them a visual prompt.
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Curated OER

How Things Taste (Pieces)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this worksheet, students cut and color 10 foods. Students classify them according to their taste and paste in the right space. This is intended to be used with another worksheet.
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The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore and study about the five senses. They focus on their sense of smell and interact with certain ingredients, including white vinegar. Each student also helps to create and share a concept map on the sense of smell...
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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students travel upstream to discover how, like salmon, a homey smell can lead them, too.
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Curated OER

Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the four familiar tastes and taste buds.
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Curated OER

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...
Worksheet
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Definitely Definitive

For Students 5th - 6th
In these descriptive writing worksheets, students use their five senses to write several descriptive paragraphs about a shoe, a dog, a cat, a television, and homework.
Unit Plan
American Institute of Architects

Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify structures of the brain, and neurons and analyze their functions.  In this nervous system lesson students create drawings and models of anatomy.
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses instructional activity, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.
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Nosapo

Writing about a Meal

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
You don't need to be a food critic to describe your meal accurately! A series of activities introduce learners to vivid adjectives when writing about the taste, smell, and feel of food. After working with word choice, parts of a...
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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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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing

For Teachers K - 1st
Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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The Tongue...A Sense of Taste

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students consider 4 types of tastes, recognize the papillae or receptors on the tongue, and locate and label the different taste sense organs on the tongue.
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Engineering and the Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore nutrition. For this nutrition lesson, students discuss a person's sense of taste and how it is different for each person. Students discuss favorite foods and how they relate to nutrition. Students cut out pictures of...
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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.
Unit Plan
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The Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
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...