For this biology field exercise, students 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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.

An activity where students try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The lesson plan is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.

Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?

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...

How does our sense of smell work? In 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 to...

Read this digital picture book about our five senses.

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...

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...

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.

For this lesson, students learn about the five senses, identify objects that make sound, and take a fun fact quiz at the end.

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...

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...

Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.

Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.

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...

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.

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.

Children develop a true sense of number by working with real things. In this lesson, kindergarteners use blocks to build towers, learning what numbers 1-5 mean.

In this lesson on counting, students will write, and represent numbers 0 through 5.

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...

What causes sound? How do our ears detect sound? How do our brains recognize sound? In this lesson students investigate hearing and discover that sensory receptors in the ears collect sound information and transmit it to the brain, and...

Students will investigate leaves by using their five senses and journaling their findings in this lesson. Journal will record information in a matrix to enable students to see the how things are related.