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Rainforest Alliance

A Rainforest Taste Test

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a taste test and chart pupils' favorites with a delicious fruit salad made up of fruit found in the rainforest. Still hungry? Snack on the rainforest inspired trail mix using a recipe of dried fruit and nuts. 
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Exploratorium

Your Sense of Taste

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A simple and sweet activity shows students how important smell is in interpreting flavor. Pairs of pupils hold their noses and eat Life Savers®, only to find that they can't identify the flavors until they let go. You will appreciate...
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! The Senses: Tasting

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Mmmmmmm, here is a tasty little slide show to use when introducing upper-elementary learners to the sense of taste. Photographs and detailed computer images accompany explanatory text about how the taste buds and the nose send signals to...
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Las Cumbres Observatory

Astronaut Training: Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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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Curated OER

Graph the Results: Applesauce Taste Test

For Teachers K - 8th
Students work together to make applesauce following specific directions. They taste each applesauce and graph the results based on the taste test. They also use the internet to create an online graph.
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Curated OER

Tomato Exploration

For Teachers K - 2nd
Create tomatoes in 15-20 minutes using this fun and interactive lesson plan! Learners listen to a book about tomatoes (recommendations listed), and focus on the vocabulary word tomato. They count the syllables and practice the plural....
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Serendip

How Do We Sense the Flavors of Food?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
We taste with our taste buds, so why do flavors change when we have a stuffy nose? Scholars experiment with taste testing while holding their noses and then while smelling. They record their observations in pairs and come together to...
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Curated OER

Taste Test

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, complete a science lab in which they perform a blind taste test on eight different foods--some sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. They determine which parts of the tongue "taste" which kinds of foods. they record...
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Curated OER

Studying our Senses

For Students 4th - 6th
Who would not want an opportunity to taste jellybeans in class?  During this investigation, life science learners hold their noses as they take a taste test and find that our perception of flavor is connected with our sense of smell. In...
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Curated OER

Sensitive Taste Test

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate concentrated and diluted solutions by conducting a taste test.  In this dilution lesson, 5th graders examine the concentration of different juices samples by tasting them and recording their observations....
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Curated OER

Sense of Taste

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students swab different sections of the tongue to identify taste buds. For this sense of taste lesson, students make predictions and conduct an experiment. Students experiment with a variety of flavors and discuss results of the taste...
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Curated OER

Water Taste Test

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate the differences in drinking water from different municipalities and store brands. They record clarity, odor and taste descriptions in a blind taste test then compare their results as class.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Analysis of Soda Taste Test Data

For Students 6th - 12th
In this analysis activity, learners are given the raw date from a soda taste test experiment. Students use that data to complete a graphic organizer and to answer 8 questions.
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Chymist

Testing the Waters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Should you trust the water you drink every day? The hands-on activity has scholars test water from different sources for contaminants. Pupils perform chemical testing and make conclusions about pH, hardness, iron, chlorine, lead, and...
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Curated OER

Taste and Smell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers experiment with sense of smell, and how it relates to sense of taste.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Mineral Identification: Mineral Scratch Test

For Students 9th - 12th
How can mineralogists tell a diamond in the rough from a chunk of table salt? Science scholars find out through an interactive that demonstrates the characteristics of minerals used for identification purposes. Topics include hardness,...
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Curated OER

Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st
First graders taste a variety of items and record a full sentence about the way they taste.  In this taste buds lesson, 1st graders predict and then taste various items.  Students draw a picture of the tongue and show the part that...
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Curated OER

Name That Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze taste buds. In this taste lesson plan, students complete an experiment in groups of four people. Students have four cups with a different substance in each cup. One student dips a Q-tip into each cup and tests on another...
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Curated OER

Our Sense of Taste

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the relationship between the senses of taste and smell using a blindfold taste test. In partners, they taste different foods with their noses plugged and unplugged. They create a life size outline of the human body to...
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Curated OER

Food Testing and Tasting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students 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 review...
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Education Outside

Honey Tasting

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young scientists will be abuzz as they sample and compare the tasty treats produced by Apis Mellifera. 
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Captain Planet Foundation

Sense of Place

For Teachers K
Explore the five senses with a kindergarten lesson on gardening. After taking a walk through the class garden, kids note what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and then decide what is living in the garden versus what is not living....
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Curated OER

Triangle Sensory Test with Oreo Cookies Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students voluntarily participate in a sensory test and examine hypothesis testing and statistical significance. They use low-fat and original Oero cookies for this experiment.
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Curated OER

Sense of Taste

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover their sense of taste. In this taste lesson, students view a tongue poster which shows what areas of the tongue are responsible for sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. They taste four different foods under these categories...

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