Activity
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...
Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: How the Five Senses Change With Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the link between anatomical changes related to aging and sensory loss. Delves into the problems associated with each of the five senses.
Activity
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.
Activity
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...
Unit Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
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.
Lesson Plan
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.
Interactive
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Christmas Bear and His Five Senses

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come along with Eric as he teaches Christmas Bear how to use his five senses.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Thomas Paine's Common Sense

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the rhetorical touches Thomas Paine employed in his pamphlet, Common Sense, which galvanized colonial thought about actually breaking away from Mother England.
Unit Plan
SEDL

Sedl: Five Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
Lesson Plan
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...
Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan site delves into the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. Students will be able to describe the ways senses affect their lives and how a pediatrician uses his/her senses to examine patients.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
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abcteach

Abcteach: Senses Flashcards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.
Interactive
University of Washington

The Senses

For Teachers 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...
Lesson Plan
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Five Senses

For Students K - 1st
The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch. The lesson will introduce each of the five senses one at a time. Students will then be assessed through a multiple choice...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things

For Students K - 1st
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects

For Students K - 1st
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Sense of Touch

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Sense of Touch", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1618 (Oil on panel, 65 x 110 cm).
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial explains how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.

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