ClassFlow
Class Flow: Senses Seeing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart points users to a website explaining how the eye works, and then gives students practice on remembering the parts of the eye. Play the game - Guess whose eye!!
Curated OER
Kids Health: Tus Ojos
Learn about the part of your body that lets you read the back of your favorite cereal box, and let you see all those beautiful things around you.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It: Visual Basics
Vision or sight is one of the most important senses that animals can have. Learn about the anatomy of the different kinds of eyes .. simple, single-lens, and compound. Puzzles and games are included.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It Single Lens Eye
The single-lens eye is found on all vertebrate animals. Learn about the main parts of this eye and the purpose each serves.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat :The Eyes Have It Compound Eye
Invertebrates are known to have compound eyes. Learn the anatomy and function of this kind of eye.
PBS
Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures: Whale Navigation
Interesting site explores how whales navigate the waters without a sense of sight. Learn about the noises they use to communicate to migrate.
Other
Keybr: Typing Practice
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch
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...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Vision
Understand how our brain identifies an object, view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Five Senses
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.
Other
Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]
This is a publication on the human brain and how it works. Gives details on the neuron, how the senses interact with the brain and much more. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders
Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...
Treehut
Suzy's World: Two Eyes
Use this site to find out why we have two eyes and how they work together.
Treehut
Suzy's World: Eye
Find out how your eyes work and try an experiment involving a cartoon flip book.
Earth Life
Earth Life: A Bird's Brain and Nerves
Learn about the nervous system of birds. Written at a reader friendly level.
Curated OER
The Senses
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.
Curated OER
Time: The Miracle Helen Keller
This Time 100 article looks at the life and work of Helen Keller who "altered our perception of the disabled and remapped the boundaries of sight and sense."
Other
Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Aesthetics
The term 'aesthetics' concerns our senses and our responses to an object. If something is aesthetically pleasing to you, it is 'pleasurable' and you like it. If it is aesthetically displeasing to you, it is not pleasurable and you don't...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Helen Keller
During this lesson plan, students learn about the life of Helen Keller and how she communicated with others. Students have the opportunity to use sign language to communicate with others. Students gain an appreciation for their sight and...
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