Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Do Touch!

K
Students explore the sense of touch. They investigate unknown solids using the sense of touch. Pupils use their senses of touch to match feely gloves. Students explore body parts, by tracing their hands and feet on paper. They create a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Touch and Discover

K - 4th
Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. In this touch and discover lesson, students describe items.  Students sort items using a Venn diagram.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Your Five Senses

K - 12th
Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
Lesson Plan
Nuffield Foundation

Assessing Skin Sensitivity—Touch Discrimination

6th - 12th Standards
How do we distinguish between the number of things touching our skin? Scholars explore an interesting instructional activity through an experiment. They learn that there must be an unstimulated sensory unit between two touches to...
Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Get the Point(s)

9th - 12th Standards
Do all areas of your skin have the same sensitivity to touch? Playing with the sense of touch, this experiment has scholars guessing how many pin heads gently touch their arm and hand. In the second part, pupils...
Lesson Plan
1
1
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Using Our Senses to Observe

Pre-K - 1st
Look around and explore. Little ones use their five senses with some day-to-day activities designed to guide observation and apply STEM strategies. Young scientists learn through comparing/contrasting and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Touchy Feely

K
Students investigate the sense of touch. In this senses lesson, students use their sense of touch to predict what objects are inside of a bag by feeling them with their eyes closed.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taste, Smell, Touch

3rd - 6th
Students explore the senses, taste, touch and smell. In this lesson about senses, students perform experiments, or activities. Students complete three activities in order to become more familiar with the three senses of taste, touch, and...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Curious George: Sand and Soil

Pre-K - 1st
Two sensory tables—wet and dry—allow scholars to use their sense of sight, touch, and smell to observe the changes when the dirt mixes with water. A short video relates the STEM learning experience to a fun video clip where Curious...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hand Sensitivity

3rd - 5th
Young scholars experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile lesson, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Young scholars experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Colors of Winter-Body Parts/Senses

1st - 8th
Fun is in the air as learners with special needs engage in sensory-filled activities. They discuss color, snow, cold, winter, and body parts while touching and smelling various objects. They discuss the parts of the body with relation to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seeing through Touch

Pre-K - 6th
Students explore solid objects using touch. In this art lesson, students are blindfolded and given a 3 dimensional object to explore with their hands. After the object is removed, students draw what they think the object looked like....
Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Attention and Sensory Processing

9th - 12th
Ever wondered how your brain manages all of the information it receives every second of every day? The sights, the sounds, the smells ... each one filed away for later use or moved to the front of the line so your body can react. Through...
Lesson Plan
NOAA

Journey to the Unknown

5th - 6th
What's it like to be a deep-sea explorer? Tap into the imaginations of your fifth and sixth graders with a vivid instructional activity, the second part of a six-part adventure. Learners close their eyes and submerge themselves in an...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sense Poems

3rd - 5th
Students explore 5 senses poetry.  In this poetry writing lesson, students visualize a special day and brainstorm related vivid adjectives and phrases.  Students create mindmaps of the five senses to go with their visualization...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geography Experience: Low Vision

3rd - 6th
The world is a big and beautiful place; but how do you begin to understand it when you have low vision? Here is a great set of ideas focused on transforming any small room into a sensory paradise, themed to incite understanding about...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World

K - 5th
Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use all...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Five Senses Lesson Plan

Pre-K - 2nd
Students listen to The Brave Little Monster, by Ken Baker. In this five senses lesson, students identify the different senses that characters experience in the book they are listening to. They review the senses as a class with hands on...
Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Heads or Tails

9th - 12th Standards
How exactly does touch help us identify items? Students test this question by feeling a coin without moving their fingers and trying to determine if it is heads or tails. They test their accuracy by rubbing their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Our Five Senses

1st - 3rd
Students explore human anatomy by creating an oral report in class. For this five senses lesson, students read several real life situations and identify which of the five senses help in certain situations. Students create an oral...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring Food with Senses

3rd - 4th
Learners explore properties of fruits and vegetables using their five senses. In this sensory activity lesson, students study fruit and vegetables through a microscope, using their sense of touch as they are blindfolded, and with their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan Seven: Sensorama

1st - 2nd
Students identify five senses, and use their senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste to distinguish different objects, sounds, smells and tastes, and write their answers in the booklet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Me: My Senses

K
Students explore the world around them and identify their five senses and the parts of their bodies that are associated with each sense.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

1st - 6th
Students explore the senses. In this Applied Science lesson, students investigate the items in "feely" boxes with their hands, both touching the items and shaking the boxes to hear the sound the items make. Students also smell and taste...