Would you rely on a fortune cookie for advice? The lesson plan first requires future statisticians to categorize 100 fortune cookie fortunes into four types: prophecy, advice, wisdom, and misc. The lesson plan goes on to have learners...

Students discover the 5 senses by analyzing poetry.  In this poetry lesson, students read a poem with their class and analyze how each sense plays into their understanding of the poem.  Students write a poem based on a specific...

Young scholars are introduced to the term imagery. Individually, they read "The Dream Deferred" and note examples of imagery in the poem. To end the instructional activity, they write their own poem making sure to use the five components...

Write narratives that include ideas, observations, or memories of an event or experience, and be sure to use concrete sensory details! Groups utilize a few of the famous I Spy books in order to create narratives that utilize sensory...

Students write a descriptive essay.  In this Holocaust instructional activity, students discuss what it must have been like for Anne Frank to stay inside for two years.  Students try to appeal to all five senses in their...

Students write a description of an animal.  In this descriptive writing lesson plan, students discuss ways to write to appeal to all five senses.  Students then describe an animal in a paragraph and pair up to guess the...

Here is a two-page worksheet on rats and mice. Learners answer nine true/false questions about rats and mice, then compose answers to seven short-answer questions about these two rodents. Finally, they must compose a fictional story...

How did Colonists react to British rule prior to the American Revolution? Give your high schoolers a taste of oppression with this role-play activity, then let them come up with a revolution of their own. This excercise is intended to...

Students conduct a series of experiments in which they explore chemical reactions. They detect chemical changes by observing how physical properties change when two different chemicals are combined. They list and describe the reactants...

Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...

Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...

Practice identifying concrete and abstract nouns with a instructional activity that offers three different ways to show what enthusiastic grammarians know. First, pupils read a passage and identify the nouns; second, they think up three...

Students read "How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World", the story of a girl who traveled the world to find the ingredients to make her apple pie. They conduct a series of interdisciplinary activities including testing their senses,...

Candy is always an effective motivator! A fun math activity uses M&M's and Skittles to explore two-way frequency tables and conditional probability. The candy can serve a dual purpose as manipulatives and experimental data.

Students explore human anatomy by conducting a human senses experiment. In this taste instructional activity, students identify the main purpose of a tongue and how it enhances our eating habits. Students utilize baking coca, lemon...

Students discover that the sense of smell helps us to enjoy life and explore unsafe conditions. They smell Christmas by making gingerbread ornaments.

Third graders generate a list of adjectives about a Reese's Cup using their sense of sight, touch, and taste. Then they write a descriptive paragraph about the Reese's Cup.

Second graders listen to a story that contains many sensory words to describe an object. They listen a second time using a signal to indicate when they hear a sensory word. They write a short story about a monster using appropriate...

Students examine the relationships among living and non-living parts of the environment. Using their senses, they identify the objects in their classroom. In groups, they participate in experiments to discover where electricity comes...

Fourth graders recognize and brainstorm descriptive adjectives to use in their writing. They work in pairs to take a taste and touch test and record their adjectives used to describe the food and knick-knacks on handout. This is a great...

The practice of developing lyrics by elaborating with sensory details and examples continues in the third lesson on songwriting. This time class members examine Jesse McCartney's "How Do You Sleep?" Using procedures established in the...

Esther Forbes' award-winning Revolutionary War novel, Johnny Tremain and excerpts from Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine are used to model how imagery brings alive the setting of a story. The young writers then craft their...

Students study how animals communicate through their senses and signals. They investigate how animals survive using their communication skills and create a commercial based on the research.

Learners identify how they are feeling and deal with feelings constructively. In this conflict resolution lesson, students explore their feelings through discussion. Learners read and complete the What Can I Do? e-sheet. Students "think...