University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Nibbles: Teaching Children About the Five Senses
Some activities to help young children learn about their five senses.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Five Senses
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
SEDL
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sense Suspense
In this language development activity, Kindergarten ELLs learn the five senses, classify objects using the five senses, and create an ABC book modeled after Bruce McMillan's Sense Suspense in which they demonstrate their learning.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Fabulous Five
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning our five senses.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Making Sense!
Making Sense! is a colorful, engaging picture/storybook book that introduces students to the brain and the five senses as they solve mystery picture puzzles. Download the text or watch it in slideshow format.
abcteach
Abcteach: Senses Flashcards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Touch
How does the sense of touch work? Is the sense of touch more sensitive in some parts of the body, such as fingertips, than in others? In this lesson students explore the sense of touch by identifying mystery objects with their eyes...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Smell
How does our sense of smell work? For this lesson students use four different flavors of dry soft drink mix to investigate the sense of smell, and learn that the nose can detect very small particles in air, and transmit the information...
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Our Senses
Read this digital picture book about our five senses.
Other
Senses: Online Word Search Puzzle
Have fun finding words associated with the five senses: smell, taste, touch, hearing, and sight. When finished with the game, rescramble the word search and play again.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Great to Be Me!
This lesson addresses the similarities and differences among people. Incorporating the literature of Eric Carle and a virtual field trip focusing on healthy habits and the five senses, students will have a greater sense of their...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Curious George: Secret Agent George
In this "Five Senses" game, George is headed to Mabel's Department Store to pick up some items, but he needs to remember what they are. Help George identify items by what they look, smell, sound, taste, or feel like.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Using All Our Sources to Understand Our World
How do we use our senses to understand our surroundings? What types of input are provided by the different senses? In this lesson students use all of their senses to understand that there are different types of sensory receptors in the...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Taste
What are the basic tastes? Where is information about taste detected in the body? In this instructional activity students taste four mystery substances and learn that the tongue is covered with taste buds, which contain taste receptors...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses
This lesson plan site delves into the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. Students will be able to describe the ways senses affect their lives and how a pediatrician uses his/her senses to examine patients.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Making Rain
Your students will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part lesson gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Vision
Which parts of the body are involved in vision (seeing)? Is light important for vision? In this lesson students make kaleidoscopes to learn that light is essential to vision, and that the brain processes information from the eyes, which...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Hearing
What causes sound? How do our ears detect sound? How do our brains recognize sound? In this lesson plan students investigate hearing and discover that sensory receptors in the ears collect sound information and transmit it to the brain,...
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year One Timed Mental Math (Page 2)
Learners are challenged to solve ten addition or subtraction problems in less than five minutes using this interactive worksheet. Immediate feedback is given.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year One Timed Mental Math (Page 3)
Try to solve ten addition or subtraction problems in less than five minutes using this interactive worksheet. Immediate feedback is given. A suitable tool for use as a quick assessment.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year One Timed Mental Math (Page1)
Test your computation skills using this timed interactive worksheet. Five minutes is the time limit. Answers can be checked when finished. This short activity would be suitable for a quick assessment.