Curated OER
Blushing Pumpkins
Students explore the changing seasons, and how the weather affects plant in various regions. They examine a pumpkin utilizing their touch, sight and smelling senses. They draw a large chalk pumpkin with a stem. They color their pumpkin...
Curated OER
The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
Curated OER
Taste Treat Writing
Students use their 5 senses to write a paragraph about yummy treats they sample. In this writing lesson plan, students use a graphic organizer to organize their tastes and how they can write about them and then write.
Curated OER
Writing About the Zoo Trip
Second graders practice writing. In this five senses writing instructional activity, 2nd graders describe their experience on the field trip they took to the zoo. They work as a class and independently to come up with different things...
Curated OER
Bat Activities and games
First graders read the book Stelluna by Janell Cannon. In this bat lesson plan, 1st graders use their sense of smell to identify objects, learn and recite a rhyme, and differentiate between the words night and day.
Curated OER
Village Descriptions
Students respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things. In this five senses lesson plan, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class. Students...
Curated OER
Visualizing
Young scholars create a radio announcement after reading Strega Nona. In this visualization instructional activity, students investigate visualization strategies. After reading Strega Nona, young scholars complete a graphic organizer and...
Curated OER
Exponents
Sixth graders explore mathematics by participating in a SMART Board activity. In this exponents lesson, 6th graders identify the different exponential powers of a number and discuss how the power of the number accumulates. Students...
Curated OER
Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
Learners cut out the nucleotide models and have an opportunity to relax and chat. Using imagination, students pretend to be molecules acting out protein synthesis and whole body movement.
Curated OER
Finger Painting and Feather Painting with Nature
Students explore finger painting and painting with feathers and recreate the look of objects in nature. They read the book, 'It Looked Like Spilt Milk,' create a shaving cream print, paint with feathers, and construct a mirror image on...
Curated OER
Health and Body Care
In these health care and grammar worksheets, learners complete several activities that teach them about spa treatments, fitness center activities, doctor visits, conjunction usage, paragraph format, and word usage.
Curated OER
How Does Art Feel
Students examine a variety of textures, one of the seven elements of design. They experiment with various media and techniques to produce different textures. Then they produce two works of art, one using actual textured material and one...
Curated OER
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Pineapple Investigations
Students use all of their senses to explore a fresh, delicious pineapple. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in activities that encourage sensory exploration, problem solving, creative-thinking, language skills, and the...
Curated OER
Wild Wonderful Walk
Young scholars explore the outdoors. In this poetry lesson, students spend time outdoors and write a poem about what they felt and saw. Young scholars can do this activity in pairs or alone. Students blindfold their partner to focus on...
Curated OER
Observing Sound
Second graders study the five senses and the link between pictures and sound. In this sound lesson students discover that sound is vibration, it is described by volume and pitch.
Curated OER
A Rat's Life
Here is a two-page worksheet on rats and mice. Learners answer nine true/false questions about rats and mice, then compose answers to seven short-answer questions about these two rodents. Finally, they must compose a fictional story...
Model Me Kids
Model Me Going Places 2
Social stories are wonderful teaching tools specifically designed for learners with Asperger's, autism, PDD-NOS, non-verbal learning disabilities, or other developmental disabilities. They are used to model appropriate social behaviors...
Curated OER
Brain and Senses
Students investigate the brain through multiple senses. In this biology lesson, students experiment with different activities involving taste, memory, touch, and sight to understand how the brain works. Students work in partners and...
Curated OER
Using My Senses
Students observe crickets in the terrarium. Have them record in their journal any evidence of crickets having senses. Then they answer questions like these: How do they use their sense organs? Where are they are located?
Curated OER
Inquire Within: Sensational Me... The Nose Knows
Students study the sense of smell. In this sense of smell lesson, students investigate to become more in touch with smell. They investigate with "Mystery Smells" by designing and completing an experiment. They complete all the associated...
Curated OER
Applied Science - Science and Math Post-Lab
Students use scientific tools. In this Applied Science lesson, students investigate the use of scientific tools to enhance observation and discovery. Students indicate how each tool assists scientific work.
Curated OER
Observations and Inferences
Students observe how to distinguish observations form inferences. In this examining inferences lesson students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them.
Curated OER
Counting and Math Concepts
Students practice counting to the number three. In this number sense lesson plan, students practice counting to the number three by using various objects. Students arrange and count the objects.
Curated OER
Senses, Spaces And Structure
Students develop greater ease with their bodies and their personal environments.
They extend body space into its immediate architectural boundaries and draw a simple yet detailed floor plan of a physical space or structure (bedroom,...