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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Senses Seeing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[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!!
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Tus Ojos

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It: Visual Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It Single Lens Eye

For Students 3rd - 8th
The single-lens eye is found on all vertebrate animals. Learn about the main parts of this eye and the purpose each serves.
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San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat :The Eyes Have It Compound Eye

For Students 3rd - 8th
Invertebrates are known to have compound eyes. Learn the anatomy and function of this kind of eye.
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PBS

Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures: Whale Navigation

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting site explores how whales navigate the waters without a sense of sight. Learn about the noises they use to communicate to migrate.
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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: 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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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Mystery of the Senses Vision

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand how our brain identifies an object, view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Other

Society for Neuroscience: Brain Facts [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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).
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Treehut

Suzy's World: Two Eyes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out why we have two eyes and how they work together.
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Treehut

Suzy's World: Eye

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Find out how your eyes work and try an experiment involving a cartoon flip book.
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Earth Life

Earth Life: A Bird's Brain and Nerves

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the nervous system of birds. Written at a reader friendly level.
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Curated OER

The Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Curated OER

Time: The Miracle Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Other

Ergonomics4 Schools: The Learning Zone: Aesthetics

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Helen Keller

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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