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Using Your Senses
Students make observations. In this sensory skills lesson, students use their senses as well as tools that sharpen their senses to make observations regarding foods and other items.
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Sweet and Savory Writing: Descriptive Writing
The engagement is in the details. Young scholars learn the benefit of weaving descriptive and sensory details into the fabric of their writing through the activities in this lesson. As their hands explore items concealed in bags, a...
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Our Five Senses
Students are introduced to the five senses through tasks that require them to use each sense in isolation. Students discover how humans use their senses to learn more about their environment.
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The Five Senses - Magic School Bus
Learners identify five senses, draw parts of body that relate to each of the senses, hear different sounds in the environment, write those experiences in their journals, and list at least four objects/things that relate to each of the...
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Our Five Senses
Students use their five senses to describe what's in a mystery bag. In this senses lesson, students use a graphic organizer to collect words for a sensory poem.
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Review of the Five Senses
Students investigate the five senses. In this human biology lesson, students are given five items and identify which items match best with each of the senses. Students use objects such as a rock, hard candy, and a flower.
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Introducing the Five Senses
Students use their five senses to guess what is in the microwave. In this five senses lesson, students use their senses to guess what is cooking in the microwave. Students are introduced to new vocabulary and listen to the book My Five...
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Health Education: An Integrated Approach; A Day Without Sight
Fourth graders hypothesize about the difficulties they may encounter if they did not have their sense of sight, in order to establish a sense of empathy for the disabled. In this lesson on senses, 4th graders record all of the things...
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Rainbow milk
This activity explores the sense of sight, nutritional needs, and the importance of milk and dairy in our diet. Students discuss color mixing, surface tension and rainbow milk. Students actively mix three colors of food coloring with...
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Disappearing Act
Crafty critters are camouflaged to escape predators, and crafty science pupils can construct a camouflage demonstration. They work with a partner to show that as a camouflaged animal moves, it becomes more visible.
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation
Students use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses lesson, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.
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All About Me: My Senses
Students explore the world around them and identify their five senses and the parts of their bodies that are associated with each sense.
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Sense-itive Issues
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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Feelin' Buggy
Students discuss five senses, compare and contrast human and insect senses, use adjectives to describe things they touch, smell, and see, and write stories in first person describing what it would be like to be size of insect.
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Language Arts: Scavenger Word Hunt
Participate in a scavenger hunt to find objects beginning with a particular letter sound and take digital photos of them with your scholars. Using software, they find word pictures beginning with particular letters and locate picture...
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Astronaut Training: Taste
Gravity isn't the only thing astronauts lose in space. Learners investigate why astronauts complain about a loss of taste while in space in a hands-on activity. They taste test foods while limiting their other senses and rate each food...
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Anatomy of the Human Ear
Students examine the human ear and its function. In this anatomy of the human ear lesson plan, students view drawings of the ear and learn about the structure of the ear through handouts and glossaries. This lesson plan is part of a...
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Penny and Cup Game
Students study the human body and their five senses by participating in a penny cup game. In this human senses lesson plan, students test their monocular and binocular vision by completing a penny drop experiment.
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Taste, Touch, and Vision
Middle schoolers investigate the five senses. In this fives senses survival lesson students complete an activity about their senses.
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Cloze Passage: Our Sense of Sight
In this cloze worksheet, learners read a passage and fill in blanks with words from a word list. The passage is about the sense of sight.
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Ice Cream Toppings
Students explore the five senses. In this senses lesson plan, students use their senses to top their ice cream. Students compare and contrast the different toppings and write their observations, using descriptive words, in a notebook.
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Arthur's Eyes
Young scholars learn about the parts of the eye. For this eyes and vision lesson, students the story Arthur's Eyes and create a KWL chart about eyes. Young scholars label the parts of the eye, examine the eyes of different animals to...
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I Think, Therefore I See
Students participate in a memory experiment to discover how the eye works. After reading an article, they analyze a new technique which examines how the brain registers sight. They develop their own memory game and conduct trials using...
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Monster Fun Learning the Five Senses: Science, Health
Students explore their five senses using Ken Baker's "Brave Little Monster" as a springboard.