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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation
Students use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses lesson, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.
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Five Senses
Pupils explore the five senses. In this five senses science and literature lesson, students listen to The Magic School Bus Five Senses book, stopping to identify and discuss each sense. Pupils draw and label a picture of their favorite...
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What is it? Sally Smells!
Students explore the attributes of the human nose. In this 5 senses lesson, students participate in a smell guessing game prior to discussing the anatomy of the nose and creating a sense of smell book page.
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Engineering and the Senses: Smell
Students define the sense of smell. For this smell sense lesson, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the importance of smell to...
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Inquire Within: Sensational Me... The Nose Knows
Learners 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...
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Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell
Students explore their senses of smell. In this sense of smell instructional activity, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Students identify scents and play an Internet game based on...
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Your Sense of Touch
In this senses worksheet, students identify pictures of items that are hard or soft to the touch. In the following four pages, students use their discernment skills to identify things they can see, smell, and hear. Students color the...
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All About Me: My Senses
Students explore the world around them and identify their five senses and the parts of their bodies that are associated with each sense.
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Lesson Plan Five: Sense of Smell and The Nose
Students identify five different fruits by using their sense of smell, and then draw a picture of the fruit; students create their own picture, and add spices for scent.
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Dolphin Communication
Students listen to a lecture on dolphin communication methods. They consider ways in which humans communicate and participate in an activity to assess the role of smell in human communication.
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What In The World Do You Smell?
Students take a walk outside and use their sense of smell to discover odors in their world. They record their observations and compare their observations with those of their classmates.
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Sharks
Students research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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Parents and Babies
Students examine different scents. In this science lesson, students are divided into being parents or babies and are each given a scent. The "parents" have to identify or infer the scent of their "baby" showing that every mammal has a...
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Seaweed Soup
Students read the book Seaweed Soup and learn about matching. In this matching lesson plan, students read the given book, and have to keep track of all the different bowls, cups, spoons, and napkins on the table by matching them up.
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts
Students experience activities with their sense of smell. For 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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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses
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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Five Senses
Students listen to the book "My Five Senses." They work together to classify fifteen objects by the sense that they affect. They discuss the sense organs and complete a chart. Finally, they sort mystery items from a bag which the teacher...
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The Senses
Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...
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A Tasty Experiment
Students work together to determine if smell is important to being able to recongize food by taste. They try different foods with different textures and hold their nose. They create a graph of their results.
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Our Five Senses Box
Students discuss how their five senses help to identify objects. They select items from a mystery box and with their eyes closed they attempt to identify the object. They give answers in complete sentences.