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Using Senses in My Community
Students use their senses to make observations about their community and the world. They sort and describe picture cards by senses, read a story, take a sensory walk around the school, and discuss common good.
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Growing Eyeballs
Students investigate vision and the anatomy of the human eye. They complete a Webquest, watch a video about the structure of the eye, take an online quiz, answer discussion questions, and read newspaper articles about activities that...
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Our Five Senses Box
Young scholars 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.
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Hidden Objects
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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Sensory Elements in the Environment
Students verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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My Five Senses
First graders work with a template and complete any incomplete sentences they find. They are to illustrate their sentences.
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Imagery
Learners listen to poetry and discuss the imagery. They write a creative poem demonstrating imagery. They write about imagery of a picture and visit a website to read poetry tips. They evaluate poetry using an evaluation form.
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Brown Bag It
Fourth graders draw an object relying only on their sense of touch and imagination and then draw it again using their powers of observation to create a detailed study of the object. Comparisons are then made of the two drawings.
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Working with Willows
Students explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
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Watching a Video Without Sound
Students watch a video with no sound and discuss what they thought happened, then they watch the same section of video again with sound and compare what they thought happened with actual events. They explore life as a deaf person.
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Lesson Plan Six: Sense of Touch
Young scholars listen carefully to story and use their sense of touch to add imagination and "touch clues" to the story.
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Sense of Taste and the Tongue
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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Can You Tell By Touch?
Students feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
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In The Dark
Students go on a "trust walk" during which one student is blindfolded and led around by his/her partner.
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Tasters' Choice
Students taste foods, some of which are familiar foods and some of which are uncommon foods. They compare and contrast the tastes and graph their likes and dislikes.
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Our Five Senses
Students explore the five senses through hands-on and Internet activities.
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Taste and Smell
Students experiment to determine classmates taste and smell to find out which sends the clearest message to the brain.
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Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses
Students conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
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How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
Students notice how various images and colors update constantly as they are affected by factors such as distance, background and lighting. They also examine how optometrists developed a standard to evaluate eyesight.
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Sense You Asked!
Fourth graders, in groups, brainstorm words that relate to the 5 senses after going on a field trip. The groups collect their words and create a piece of writing about the trip.
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Sedl: Los Cinco Sentidos
This site provides lesson plans and activities for Spanish speaking students learning about the 5 senses. Can be used with the English version of the lesson as well.
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Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...