Early Childhood Learning and Knowlege Center
My Body My Senses
In a comprehensive unit of activities, learners explore the five senses. Youngsters discover the many different body parts and their functions that allow humans to have sense of sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. The best way to...
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Making Cents of the Senses
Students explore sight and hearing. In this senses lesson plan, students read Brown Bear Brown Bear, discuss how eyes are used for sight, and chart the eye color of the students in the class. Students discuss how hearing is important,...
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Using Our Five Senses
Students explore human anatomy by creating an oral report in class. In this five senses lesson, students read several real life situations and identify which of the five senses help in certain situations. Students create an oral...
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Eyes On Me
Students investigate the human eye. In this biology lesson, students read the book Look At Your Eyes and locate the various parts of their eye. Students play the game "I Spy."
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An Eye on Science
Students investigate the human eye and its parts. They read and discuss various books about eyes and sight, draw a rough draft of an eye diagram, and create a final draft of their eye diagram including labeled parts using Kid Pix...
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Penny and Cup Game
Learners perform activities to discover if one eye is better than two. They test their sense of sight with both monocular and binocular vision. Students drop a penny and see if it lands in the cup of water. They rely on their sense of...
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Healthy Heart
Students discover the power of their heart and provide an opportunity to talk about ways to maintain good health. In this early childhood heart lesson, students diagram a human heart, identify exercises that promote a healthy heart, and...
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Your Five Senses
Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
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Touch and Feel Box
Students investigate their sense of touch to help become more descriptive with their observations. In this sensory lesson, students reach inside a box to feel an object then guess what it is. Students then use both senses of touch and...
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Insight Into Eyesight-How We See
In this functions of the human eye activity students label A-E the correct function of each part of the eye on the provided diagram.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab
Students explore the senses. In this Applied Science lesson, students investigate the items in "feely" boxes with their hands, both touching the items and shaking the boxes to hear the sound the items make. Students also smell and taste...
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Feelin' Buggy
Students discuss five senses, compare and contrast human and insect senses, use adjectives to describe things they touch, smell, and see, and write stories in first person describing what it would be like to be size of insect.
Perkins School for the Blind
Learning to Identify Sounds Made by the Body
Sneeze, snap, tap, and whistle; Did I do that? Explore the parts and sounds of the human body with your learners with visual impairments. First you'll name the parts of the body, make a sound with each part, and then have the class guess...
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Review of the Five Senses
Young scholars investigate the five senses. In this human biology instructional activity, students are given five items and identify which items match best with each of the senses. Young scholars use objects such as a rock, hard candy,...
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Radical Raptors
Students are introduced to raptors and their role in the environment. They identify three characteristics of raptors and list several types of raptors found in nature. They discuss their positive and negative experiences with raptors and...
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Touch N' Feel Box
Students are encouraged to use senses other than sight to record observations. They explore scientific questioning, observations and human senses (touch, hearing and sight). Students describe objects using their sense of touch and then...
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Lenses
Students explore vision by experimenting with lenses in equipment. In this optics lesson, students define the different technology that enhances vision such as microscopes, telescopes and cameras. Students experiment with these devices...
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Make Sense of Nature
Pupils participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Look at those Leaves!
Students observe leaves for patterns and similarities. In this science lesson plan, students sort through a pile of leaves to find patterns and take measurements. Students make leaf rubbings to view the details of the leaves.
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Games on Echolocation
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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In Touch with Apples
Students read "How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World", the story of a girl who traveled the world to find the ingredients to make her apple pie. They conduct a series of interdisciplinary activities including testing their senses,...
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Sorting
Students explore how to sort and manage information. In this organization lesson students complete an activity on sorting.
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Animal Signs
Students discuss the many different types of animal signs that can be used to identify and track animals. They participate in an hands-on activity in which they examine tracks, trails, homes, territory markings, and even "scat" left by...
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Triangle Sensory Test with Oreo Cookies Lesson Plan
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.