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American Institute of Architects

Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...
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Curated OER

Visualization: Cricket in Times Square

For Teachers 4th
After reading The Cricket in Times Square chapter titled "Caught in the Kitchen," learners list three describing details about the characters and setting. Groups collaborate to find sensory details to support their character assertions....
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Curated OER

Engineering and the Senses: Smell

For Teachers K
Students define the sense of smell. For this smell sense lesson, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the importance of smell to...
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Curated OER

Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore their senses of smell. In this sense of smell instructional activity, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Young scholars identify scents and play an Internet...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kinds of Nouns

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
With so many different kinds of nouns, it can be hard for young learners to keep them all straight. Help clarify this important part of speech for your class with this series of worksheets which clearly addresses the difference...
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Curated OER

Multi-sensory Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use their senses to help describe special place they have been. They write short sensory-image essay that incorporate all five of their senses, and identify sensory language while reading different pieces of literature.
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Curated OER

Understanding Nouns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify types of nouns. In this grammar lesson, students define what a noun is and identify the various types of nouns in sentences. This grammar lesson is geared towards Special Education students.
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Curated OER

Village Descriptions

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses lesson, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class.  Young...
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Curated OER

Riddle Poem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice writing skills by writing riddle poems using adjectives to describe vegetables.