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Creating an Interesting Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this setting worksheet, learners fill out a chart for seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, and hearing in a setting. Students complete 20 boxes total in the chart.
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Fabric All Around

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore human senses by participating in an arts and crafts activity. For this fabric identification lesson, students discuss the uses for fabric and the history of cloth. Students identify the different materials in their...
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Writing About the Zoo Trip

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice writing. In this five senses writing lesson, 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 they saw, smelled,...
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The Five Senses of Thanksgiving

For Students K - 2nd
For this Thanksgiving worksheet, students write about what they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch on Thanksgiving in different chickens. Students complete 5 chickens about their senses.
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Special Place

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners observe and describe a "special place" chosen along a nature trail. In this habitat observational skills and writing lesson, students take a walk on a nature trail and choose a spot to sit and meditate. Learners complete a...
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Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore their local environment. In this sensory awareness lesson, students identify various physical factors in their environment using their senses.
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Follow the Scent

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a hunting activity. In this smells lesson, students discuss how animals track each other through a keen sense of smell and how humans rarely do the same. Students utilize...
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Good Senses

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how the brain can link or senses and how our tongue determines the basic tastes.  In this five senses lesson students complete a taste test. 
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Village Descriptions

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses lesson, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class.  Students find...
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Hand Sensitivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile lesson plan, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Students experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory data...
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My Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the five senses. For this senses lesson, students explore the nervous system. Students examine how the body receives information through the five senses.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Picky Eaters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study taste receptors and explain how genes can influence them.  In this flavor lesson students view videos on picky eating and complete an activity.
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My Five Senses 2

For Teachers K
Students investigate the five senses. In this five senses activity, students answer essential questions about the use of the five senses as they interact with their environment. They use a computer software program to make a concept web...
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Taste, Touch, and Vision

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the five senses.  In this fives senses survival lesson students complete an activity about their senses. 
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Imagery Chart

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this imagery worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the five senses that they observe. Students complete 5 sections.
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Imagery Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this imagery worksheet, students write their observations using the five senses for a topic. Students complete 5 sections and write 1 sentence.
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Living with Visual Impairments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study what causes visual impairment and disability later in life.  In this visual impairments lesson students complete lab activities that includes assisting a person with vision problems. 
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Comparing Different Types of Corn

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore different types of corn. In this science lesson, students compare sweet corn, field corn and Indian corn. Students gather specific information. Additionally, students discuss their findings. 
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Thai Children's Trust: School for the Blind

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore their five senses by experimenting with classmates. In this blindness lesson, students utilize blindfolds while performing everyday activities and discuss the inherent challenges of not having vision. Students view a...
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Measuring Visual Acuity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars examine the principles of visual acuity and how it pertains to sight.  In this measuring lesson students complete several activities on vision. 
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Visualizing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a radio announcement after reading Strega Nona. In this visualization instructional activity, students investigate visualization strategies. After reading Strega Nona, students complete a graphic organizer and produce a...
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Exploring Sensory Details in Fiction and Nonfiction Text

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze storytelling devices by examining sensory details in literature. In this descriptive writing lesson, 2nd graders define the 5 senses and practice using descriptive vocabulary words in their writing. Students read...
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Taste Treat Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.