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Mystery Box

For Teachers K
Students predict what mystery objects are based on how they feel. In this sense of touch lesson, students reach inside a box and make a guess about the object inside. Once students record their predictions, the objects are revealed....
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Freddie Feels

For Teachers K
Students become aware of the sense of touch and the body parts effected by touching.  In this five senses lesson, students touch mystery items and create a touch page.  Students discuss the body parts connected to the sense of...
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Have You Seen My Mother?

For Teachers K
Students listen to a read aloud of Janell Cannon's, Stellaluna as they examine how bats use their sense of smell. They examine the sense of smell by role playing as mother bats as identify different scents. They study bat facts at an...
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What's in the Sock?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use their sense of touch to identify a variety of objects. In this sense of touch lesson, 2nd graders listen to a read aloud of Sandra Boynyon's, Fuzzy Fuzzy, Fuzzy. They talk about different textures and about the...
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Ice Cream Toppings

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the five senses. In this senses lesson, students use their senses to top their ice cream. Students compare and contrast the different toppings and write their observations, using descriptive words, in a notebook.
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How Much is a Million?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the magnitude of the number 100. The sense of the number is developed by allowing students to experience 100 by counting it, measuring it, feeling it, and doing it, hands-on
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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing

For Teachers K - 1st
Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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I'm Special

For Teachers K
Students explore their five senses and what makes them special and unique. They listen to books about their senses and participate in a taste and smell experiment. Students also create a senses journal, and create an "I'm Special" book...
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What is That Smell?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify various scents by using their sense of smell. In this five senses lesson, students smell items such as popcorn, mint, and lemon and identify the scents by only using their sense of smell.
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What is It? Susie Sees!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the five senses.  In this cross curriculum five senses lesson, students view an "I Can See Colors" PowerPoint presentation and sort items by color and shape. Students mix primary color paints to create secondary...
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Pumpkin Exploring

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use their senses to explore the make up of a pumpkin.  In this senses and observation lesson, students cut off the top of a pumpkin, reach their hands inside the pumpkin, discuss the different senses they are experiencing,...
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Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an ocean haiku. In this haiku lesson, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Students watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.
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Making Observations and Generating Hypotheses

For Teachers K - 12th
Students practice how to approach a problem scientifically. They use their senses to make a detailed description of a natural object and to generate hypotheses about the identity and features of the object hidden within a box.
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Getting Started with Math By Hand Concept App

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Pupils build number sense skills and gain confidence at math by hand. Review how to perform algorithms for the four basic operations. A step-by-step mode emphasizes place value in the base-ten system for each algorithm. Learners identify...
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Imagery

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students write using imagery. In this descriptive writing lesson students write a descriptive paragraph about their favorite season. They use a chart to compile words related to their senses and emotions.
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Deaf and Diverse

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine deaf culture and the role that American Sign Language plays in forging a sense of community.
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Melt Away

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore objects before and after heating using their senses.  In this matter and energy lesson, students experiment with a variety of objects and use their senses (except taste) to make predictions and record observations...
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Subtraction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore subtraction. In this mathematics instructional activity, students practice how to subtract numbers from 20, 100 and other whole numbers. Students realize that there are number bonds which can help with subtraction like 3...
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The Lifesaver Descriptive Writing Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe all of their senses and practice descriptive writing while eating Lifesavers. They write silently about what they are tasting, smelling, and hearing until the candy is dissolved.
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
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TE Lesson: Habitat Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the current technologies used in mapping resources in the marine environment. They look at remote sensing, sounding, and underwater vehicles. They examine image from the benthic habitat produced by the GIS in...
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What Could It Be?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this number sense worksheet, students examine a group of numbers from 1 to 7 digits and use these numbers to answer 9 fill in the blank problems regarding number sense and place value.
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Hear No Evil

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the function of the ears. In this sense of hearing activity, students read the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear and discuss the things the Polar Bear heard. Students construct simple musical instruments and...
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Color Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe colors. In this descriptive writing lesson, students brainstorm color descriptions using all of the senses except sight. Students write poems including similes, sensory images, and interesting word choice. Examples are...

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