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.
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: 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.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Smell
How does our sense of smell work? In this lesson learners 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 to...
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.
abcteach
Abcteach: Senses Flashcards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Five Senses
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Crab Boat: Senses: Five Human Senses
Todd, the crab boat captain uses his five senses to bring the crabs to shore. Can you help him?
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sense Suspense
In this language development lesson, 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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Australia: Senses: Observation of Unfamiliar Things
Join Sophie in her snorkeling shop from where she explores the Great Barrier Reef. Help her use her five senses to sort the items in her shop.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Hawaii Tiki Lounge: How Can We Protect Our Senses?
Learn about the five senses and how to protect them from harm.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: My Book of Five
Students will be given double-sided counters/dots to complete this activity. They will take five counters in their cupped hands (or a cup), shake them around, pour them onto the desk. Next, they count how many counters are yellow and how...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Oranges How Many Sections Are Inside?
In this biology investigation learners will be asked to attempt to determine how many sections exist in an orange without having peeled it. Students will work in small cooperative groups. Each group will be able to use a small magnifying...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Minnesota Tree Leaves
For this biology field exercise, learners will collect leaves, describe differences seen in casual and detailed observation and give reasons for the importance of trees. Students will use their five senses to take a closer look at leaves...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Five Senses
An activity where students try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The lesson is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.
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.
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 lesson students taste four mystery substances and learn that the tongue is covered with taste buds, which contain taste receptors that communicate...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Towers, Towers, Towers 1 5
Children develop a true sense of number by working with real things. In this lesson plan, kindergarteners use blocks to build towers, learning what numbers 1-5 mean.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Fabulous Five
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains sorting, graphing and assessment concerning 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.
Other
Nearpod: Represent, Count, and Write Numbers 0 5
In this lesson on counting, students will write, and represent numbers 0 through 5.