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Sense You Asked!
Fourth graders, in groups, brainstorm words that relate to the 5 senses after going on a field trip. The groups collect their words and create a piece of writing about the trip.
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Picky Eaters
Students study taste receptors and explain how genes can influence them. In this flavor lesson students view videos on picky eating and complete an activity.
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Writing about a Meal
You don't need to be a food critic to describe your meal accurately! A series of activities introduce learners to vivid adjectives when writing about the taste, smell, and feel of food. After working with word choice, parts of a...
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Crazy Chemistry Lesson Plan
Students study water molecules, cohesion and surface tension. In this molecule cohesion lesson plan students create chemical reactions that cause a balloon to inflate and another one that results in soap suds.
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Water Taste Test
Students investigate the differences in drinking water from different municipalities and store brands. They record clarity, odor and taste descriptions in a blind taste test then compare their results as class.
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses
Students record observations and create drawings and models of anatomy using their five senses. They describe the structures of a neuron and analyze each of their functions. They compare and contrast the typical structural features of a...
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I Belong To . . . (The Senses)
In this senses worksheet, students match the descriptive words with the body part is belongs to: ear, eye, nose, mouth, or skin. This worksheet has 20 matching questions.
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It Makes Sense
In this writing a poem worksheet, students choose a human emotion and write a poem following the directions to name its color, describe what it tastes like, what it smells like, what it looks like, what it sounds like, and what it feels...
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Taste and Smell
Students experiment to determine classmates taste and smell to find out which sends the clearest message to the brain.
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I Belong to.....(The Senses)
In this neuroscience for kids worksheet, students identify whether each of the 20 body parts listed belongs to the eye, ear, nose, or mouth.
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Amazing Senses
In this five senses worksheet, students investigate their sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch by taking a walk and writing their observations.
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Your Five Senses
In this categorizing worksheet, students use the words in the word box to think about what they would see, feel, hear, touch, and taste. Students then categorize the words into the appropriate section. Students then list their favorite...
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Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses
Students conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
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Five Senses-Introduction
Students explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.
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Sensing Somethong
Students are taught that they can gather information about objects using the five senses of vision, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. They are told that some sensing, like sight, is done remotely. Students observe how a camera can...
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Anatomy Grade Level: First Grade - FIVE SENSES
First graders name the five senses, identify major body structures and organs and describe their basic functions. In this anatomy lesson, 1st graders learn about the basic structures and functions of the human body and how they relate to...
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Our Five Senses
Pupils explore the five senses through hands-on and Internet activities.
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How to Write an Apology Poem
Put a silly spin on making amends with an apology poem. Budding poets think of a time they were made to apologize although they didn't mean it. They then turn their experience into a poem that offers details and ends with an explanation...
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Altogether, Now
Students apply their five senses to science, math, drama, and writing center activities.
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Observation
Young scholars study the different kinds of observation: fact and opinion. In this observation lesson students complete an activity that allows them to use their senses to make observations.
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Tongue Map
Students explore human anatomy by conducting a human senses experiment. In this taste lesson, students identify the main purpose of a tongue and how it enhances our eating habits. Students utilize baking coca, lemon juice, salt and honey...
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Feely Balloons
Students use their sense of touch to identify different types of solids. In this "Mystery Solids" lesson, students feel various balloons filled with items such as rice, flour, salt, beans, etc. They use their senses to come to logical...
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Can You Guess The Flavor?
Second graders conduct a tasting experiment. In this senses lesson, 2nd graders read The Five Senses and brainstorm different tastes. They work in pairs, one blindfolded and the other recording. The blindfolded student eats one skittle...
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The Nervous System and the Effects of Drugs
In this senses worksheet, students use webbed information to answer several questions. Students read about each one of the five human senses in order to demonstrate an understanding of the material.