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Touch and Discover

For Teachers K - 4th
Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. In this touch and discover instructional activity, students describe items.  Students sort items using a Venn diagram.
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Descriptive Writing: Color Description Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts activity, students generate words that describe each of the 5 colors listed. Students write adjectives to tell what the color looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like.
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Build Mastery: Visualization

For Teachers K - 3rd
What do you see? Young reader tap into the visualization process as they listen to or read a fiction story and fill out a graphic organizer. Model this first with a think-aloud, showing scholars how you visualize a familiar story. For...
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Visualization: Cricket in Times Square

For Teachers 4th
After reading The Cricket in Times Square chapter titled "Caught in the Kitchen," learners list three describing details about the characters and setting. Groups collaborate to find sensory details to support their character assertions....
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Saga of Survival (Using Data about Donner Party to Illustrate Descriptive Statistics)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What did gender have to do with the survival rates of the Donner Party? Using comparative box plots, classes compare the ages of the survivors and nonsurvivors. Using the same method, individuals make conclusions about the...
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The Case of the Careless Zookeeper

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Herbivores and carnivores just don't get along. Using a box of animal crackers, classes collect data about the injury status of herbivores and carnivores in the box. They complete the process of chi-square testing on the data from...
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How Things Taste (Pieces)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this worksheet, students cut and color 10 foods. Students classify them according to their taste and paste in the right space. This is intended to be used with another worksheet.
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students experience activities with their sense of smell. In this smell lesson, students hear a story about a bull who loves to smell flowers, pretend to be a dog smelling different smells, experiment with a smell test and paint with...
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Sense of Taste and the Tongue

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students taste different foods and record their reaction to each one. They record their likes, dislikes, and favorites and create a graph. Then they use the graph to compare the tastes of the class.
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We Taste

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this unique handwriting skills worksheet, students create a small book on all the parts of a pizza, color the pictures and then write each part of the pizza on the lines provided.
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Use Your Nose

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how their senses work. In this senses lesson, students use the sense of smell to observe various spices. Students discuss their findings.
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What Food Is It?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students close their eyes and taste foods without using the sense of sight to identify the foods. They record what they think the food is that they tasted.
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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Is It Safe to Go In? Water Quality of Bathing Areas in the EU

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using your senses, apprehend the effects of contaminants in water. With a global focus, young scientists conduct a safe experiment by tasting sugar and salt water with different dilutions. After reviewing threshold limits, learners write...
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Out of the Dust: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A guided imagery exercise is a great way to get readers thinking about writing. As part of their study of Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse’s 1998 Newbery Medal winning verse novel, class members listen to a reading of one of the poems...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners explore the senses. In this Applied Science lesson plan, 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. Learners also smell and...
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Food Testing and Tasting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars list the attributes of chocolate as an unprocessed and processed substance. They conduct a taste test of various chocolate bars and give a rating for each attribute they previously listed. Students create a consumer...
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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decide if it is possible to identify something using only the senses of taste, smell and hearing. They listen to a CD of animal sounds with their eyes closed and attempt to identify the animal. Next, they smell an air...
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The Five Senses - Barefoot Walking Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students go outside and take a little barefoot walking trip. They talk to each other about their experiences on the trip to help them remember everything they can. They go on a walk for at least 15 minutes. Ask questions during the trip.
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Our Sense Organs And Their Uses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sense organs worksheet, students determine facts about our sense organs and their uses. Students write fifteen multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blank answers.
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Generic vs. Brand Name

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students compare and contrast generic and brand name products and the costs of producing each. They explore the "Bargain Basement" section of the ING website, participate in a soda taste test, and tally the results of the taste test on a...
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What Is It? Tommy Tastes

For Teachers K
Students complete multi-curricular to learn about senses and sensory words. In this sensory words lesson plan, students discuss the five senses and the anatomy of a tongue. Students complete a food tasting activity and find descriptive...
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Lesson Plan One: Introduction to the Five Senses

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to book See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell, by Melvin Berger, and explore five senses and sense organs

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