Activity
Smarter Balanced

How the Brain Works

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Cerebrum, cerebellum, brainstem, pituitary gland, and spinal cord. Prepare your class for a performance task assessment on the brain and how it works with a scripted plan that defines these terms and identifies the functions the...
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Curious George Learns to Count

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
The magic number is 100. A collection of fun activities, this guide provides educators with ideas for young mathematicians to practice counting to 100.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Multi-dimensional Modeling of Ore Bodies Making Sense of Empirical Data

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Math scholars identify four different rock types in that strata and use this identification and data to construct a two dimensional geologic cross-section. They use data tables to construct a three-dimensional geologic cross-section.
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Students 7th
Order up a resource on comparing rational numbers. Scholars order fractions, decimals, and percents by converting to a single form. They conduct a cut-and-paste activity ordering three sets of rational numbers.
PPT
Curated OER

What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson plan, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate sound and recognize the importance of hearing. They listen to and identify sounds in the environment, classroom, and on a pre-recorded tape. The students classify each type of sound and participate in a Sound...
Interactive
Curated OER

Find the Even Numbers 5

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online interactive number sense worksheet, learners examine a series of 1 and 2-digit numbers. Students identify the even numbers in the series and check their answers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mystery of the Senses-Touch

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students test the skin's range of sensitivity. Students complete a "Touch Areas" activity. They discuss their results with the class. Students make conclusions about which parts of the body are most sensitive to touch.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mystery of the Senses-Vision

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students view six optical illusions and explain why the visual system might interpret them the way it does. They explore how illusions distort our sense of perspective, because they deceive us into seeing what we expect to see. ...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Catch a Rainbow

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a book read to them entitled, WHAT MAKES A RAINBOW and recall and describe their five senses and what parts of their bodies use their five senses and then complete the Catch a Rainbow activity sheet using a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture This

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners, after explaining the famous quote, "A picture is worth a thousand words," supply the missing words to a wordless story by Mercer Mayer called "A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog." They brainstorm the setting, plot, descriptive words,...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Configuration Station- #20 One And Two Letter Words

For Students K - 2nd
For this reading worksheet, students examine 8 short words in a word bank and participate in a variety of activities: sentence writing, alphabetizing, word puzzles and rhyming.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Configuration Station #5

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling and vocabulary worksheet, students examine 5 words in a word bank. Students alphabetize, complete word puzzles, find the opposites, and illustrate. In this worksheet 3 of the words studied are contractions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Look Up!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students investigate the sky.  In this weather and clouds lesson, students observe the sky and write journal entries using their five senses to describe what they see.  Students observe, identify, and write about the different...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Remote Sensing - What Can We See When We Can't Touch?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discover how remote sensing is used to identify the signatures of life even when the particular life form is not directly observable. They investigate how a satellite "sees" objects on the surface of Earth.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Observation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the different kinds of observation: fact and opinion.  For this observation lesson students complete an activity that allows them to use their senses to make observations. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Number Recognition Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. In this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Students practice...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sensory Hi-Lo Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore their local environment. In this sensory awareness lesson, students identify various physical factors in their environment using their senses.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Name Collections with Craft Sticks

For Teachers K
Groups of Kindergarten students count craft sticks in different groups and name how many they have. They complete simple addition to ten with the use of manipulatives.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Depression: Behavioral Activation

For Students 9th - 12th
Self-awareness is an important life skill. Not intended to replace treatment for clinical depression, this sheet offers class members a chance to identify activities they enjoy and responsibilities they have, and a chart to record how...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Descriptive Writing: Using Art to Inspire description

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Write with the senses! Try using art to inspire writers to consider all of the senses. Here, the class is divided in half. Each group looks at one of two images, imagines the senses that would be engaged, and records answers to five...