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Shells: An Investigation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners observe shells using their five senses. In this scientific inquiry lesson, students examine shells using a hand lens and their five senses. Learners complete an included shell data sheet.
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Engineering the Senses

For Teachers K
Students become aware of texture and the sense of touch. In this senses activity, students become aware of their dominant hand. Students draw pictures using texture. Students describe a texture of an item in a mystery bag.
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The Metamorphosis: Problematic Situation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Are you enjoying the use of all five senses? Imagine that you have to lose one of them; you can choose which one, but it's gone forever. Work through a lesson based on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis that asks class...
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Get in Touch with Nature

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a trip to the Colombian rainforest through the sense of touch. Here, class members discover what's inside a mystery box: wood, cinnamon, Brazil nuts, a banana, and orange. Then, the class takes a trip outside for a tree rubbing...
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Memory Haiku: The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Smell

For Teachers 10th - 11th Standards
Scholars learn how smells evoke early childhood memories and apply that knowledge to a character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. After finding a passage from the novel that references smells, they craft a haiku and a...
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Blogging To Create A Community of Writers # 5 of 7

For Teachers 6th
Here is lesson 5 from a 7 lesson unit on using blogging to create a community of writers. The aim of this lesson is to get students writing about what Archaeologists do and how they use material data to study the past. They compose a...
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses lesson, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.
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Sense of Taste

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars discover their sense of taste. For this taste lesson, students view a tongue poster which shows what areas of the tongue are responsible for sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. They taste four different foods under these...
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My Five Senses

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this creating sentences activity, students read the sentence "I see with my eyes." and create sentences about the four remaining senses. Students write four sentences on primary lined activity.
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The Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, students find the words that are related to the senses and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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The Bracelet: Five Senses

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the 5 senses by reading children's literature. In this descriptive writing lesson, students read the story The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, analyzing the story and characters as they go. Students identify the use of...
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Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "My Five Senses." They work together to classify fifteen objects by the sense that they affect. They discuss the sense organs and complete a chart. Finally, they sort mystery items from a bag which the teacher...
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Meet A Tree

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore different types of trees with their senses. In this nature lesson plan, students play a game in which pairs use their senses to explore trees, blindfolded. Students then must find the tree they found when blindfolded. 
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Measurement: The Size is Right

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Specific learning goals are grouped for different grade levels spanning pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. After preparing the questions and materials, you call a learner to come in front of the class and play the game. Young learners...
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Grade 5 Math Module 1, Topic C, Lesson 8

For Teachers 5th Standards
Go another round on rounding. Pupils refine their learned rounding skills in the eighth installment in an 18-part unit on decimals. The instructional activity takes away some of the previous scaffolding to encourage scholars to use the...
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Sense-sational

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the five senses. They participate in the lesson for one week with each day devoted to one sense being sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch. They also cover the concept of being part of a global community where one...
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Crossword: Our Senses

For Students 4th - 5th
In this health worksheet, learners find the words that are found in the crossword puzzle related to the topic of our senses like sight and hearing.
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Your Sense of Touch

For Students K - 2nd
In this senses worksheet, students identify pictures of items that are hard or soft to the touch. In the following four pages, students use their discernment skills to identify things they can see, smell, and hear. Students color the...
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The Tongue...A Sense of Taste

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students consider 4 types of tastes, recognize the papillae or receptors on the tongue, and locate and label the different taste sense organs on the tongue.
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A Keen Sense of Smell

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners investigate their sense of smell by experimenting with smelly objects.  In this human senses lesson plan, students examine the length of time it takes to smell a random object that is close to them.  Learners record...
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Using Your Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this senses learning exercise, students answer two questions about observations using the senses. Students then give reasons why each sense may not give them all the information they need when making observations.
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How the Heightened Senses of the Sea Turtle, Elephant, and Eagle Are Evident in the Brain

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the senses of different animals. For this biology lesson plan students will study the animals selected for their grades. The students will learn about the brain and how the senses of that animal have developed.
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Engineering and the Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore nutrition. In this nutrition lesson, students discuss a person's sense of taste and how it is different for each person. Students discuss favorite foods and how they relate to nutrition. Students cut out pictures of...
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Know Your Nose: Learning About the Sense of Smell

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore their senses of smell. In this sense of smell lesson, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Students identify scents and play an Internet game based on the sense of smell.

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