Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: The Sense of Taste
In this interactive object, learners examine the structure and function of the sense of taste.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: How the Five Senses Change With Age
This article discusses the link between anatomical changes related to aging and sensory loss. Delves into the problems associated with each of the five senses.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: The Senses: Tasting
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompaning quiz, explains our sense of taste.
Read Works
Read Works: The Science of Taste
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sense of taste. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Tour the Tongue
This audio interactive helps us learn how our sense of taste works, what happens in our brain as we eat, and why we have the ability to detect flavors like bitter and sweet. Discover why we only have five basic taste sensations: sweet,...
Read Works
Read Works: Sense and Sensibility
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sense of smell and the sense of taste. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science of Cooking: Your Sense of Taste
How does your tongue taste? This site has tounge images, quizzes, activities and more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Taste and Smell Questions
This is a 10-question quiz pertaining to taste and smell.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tickle My Taste Buds
This engaging interactive helps children learn that different foods have different tastes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Senses Taste
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes our sense of taste and asks some fun questions.
Read Works
Read Works: Your Five Senses by Rachelle Kreisman
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains the five senses: taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing. A comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet are available.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Your Sense of Smell
Dinner is cooking and boy does it smell good. Understand how our sense of smell works at this Exploratorium site.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
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.
University of Washington
The Senses
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...
University of Washington
Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
SEDL
Sedl: Five Senses
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Smelling and Tasting
Kids learn about the science of smelling and tasting. Two senses of the human body.
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.
Michigan Reach Out
Taste Buds
In this lesson plan students discover where different tastes are located on the tongue.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Smell and Taste Disorders
The Merck Manual offers an interesting article that describes ways in which your sense of smell can be affected. Diagnosis and treatment for loss of smell are also discussed.