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Five Senses - Learning With The Senses
Students name the five senses, compare learning with and without the senses.
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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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The Brain and the Sense Organs - Lesson Plan
Students identify the five sense organs and state the uses of the five senses.
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What Food Is It?
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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What In The World Do You Smell?
Learners 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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Sound Vibrations
Students examine how vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear. Students experience vibrations using several of their senses.
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Altogether, Now
Young scholars apply their five senses to science, math, drama, and writing center activities.
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Sharks
Pupils research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste
Second graders explore the four familiar tastes and taste buds.
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Give Me Five at Christmas Time
Students study about senses by taking a walking field trip, creating a word bank, reading a story and singing a song.
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Living and Nonliving Things
First graders distinguish between living and nonliving objects, and compare living organisms and nonliving objects.
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Using Our Senses
Learners explore their five senses and describe what they sense, describe ways the senses affect their lives, and observe the way that a pediatrician uses his/her senses and tools to examine patients.
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Monster Fun Learning the Five Senses: Science, Health
Pupils explore their five senses using Ken Baker's "Brave Little Monster" as a springboard.
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The Five Senses - Learning the Senses
Students learn what each sense does for the student.
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Taste (Gustation)
Students conduct various experiments to see if different parts of the tongue are more sensitive to different characteristics of food.
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Using My Senses
Second graders identify human and insect senses and where they are located on the body. They maintain a cricket terrarium for experimentation. They realize the value of the senses by observing, recording, discussing and drawing conclusions.
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Our Senses
Young scholars practice identifying the five senses using such things as a fluff ball, train whistle, tennis ball, package of potpourri, lollipop
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Cow Eye Dissection Lab
Students explore the anatomy of the eye by dissecting a cow eye Students are introduced the concept behind vision and the anatomy to the eye.
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Sensation and Perception
In this psychology activity, high schoolers complete a 5 short answer quiz on sensation and perception. They explain how the five body senses are used to collect information about the environment.
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Exploring the Five Senses
Students explore the five senses. In this science lesson, students complete activities online in which they research the five senses.
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PERSISTENCE OF VISION
Eighth graders explore how vision effects viewing. In this vision instructional activity students build a persistence of vision model of flying birds.
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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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Your Five Senses
In this five senses worksheet, learners match each of the 5 senses with its correct picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Touching Traits
Students describe objects using only their sense of touch. In this lesson on describing characteristics, students use only their sense of touch to describe an unseen object in a box. This lesson can be used an an introduction to plant...