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Creative Writing Using the Senses

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, utilizing a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings, eat a sweet treat and then list eight different adjectives for each of the five senses. They then describe a sweet with at least then adjectives...
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The Magic School Bus Makes a Stink

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover the secret to what makes things smell through their own investigations.
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Sense-sational

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners 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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Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...
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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.
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Take a Walk!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this five sense illustration worksheet, students draw pictures of some of the things they experienced on their walk. Students illustrate what they saw, heard, smelled, and touch.
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify structures of the brain, and neurons and analyze their functions.  In this nervous system lesson students create drawings and models of anatomy.
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students 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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Geography Experience: Low Vision

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The world is a big and beautiful place; but how do you begin to understand it when you have low vision? Here is a great set of ideas focused on transforming any small room into a sensory paradise, themed to incite understanding about...
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Crossword: Our Senses

For Students 4th - 5th
In this health worksheet, students 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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The Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore activities involving the five senses. They describe objects by touch and participate in craft corners using sand, rice, and blocks. They taste various foods and use their sight to find missing objects. They practice...
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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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Touch and Feel Box

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate their sense of touch to help become more descriptive with their observations. In this sensory lesson, students reach inside a box to feel an object then guess what it is.  Students then use both senses of...
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The Touch N Feel Box

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight.  In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...
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Using Your Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this senses worksheet, 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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All About the Senses

For Students 2nd
In this senses activity, 2nd graders use their sensory receptors to collect information. Students complete short answer questions regarding what they observed, felt, smelled, tasted, and heard with their senses.
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Mystery of the Senses-Taste

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate the senses involved with taste. In an activity, students demonstrate the way that our senses of touch and smell combine with taste. Blindfolded, and with "plugged" noses, students taste foods. They complete a test...
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Puberty/Adolescence Day 5: What Will I Decide About Touch?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars follow the thoughtful decision model and decide which kind of touching is okay and which is not as a teen. In this touch lesson plan, students also learn how to communicate those decisions.
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Engineering and the Senses

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

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore their senses of smell. In this sense of smell instructional activity, students read The Popcorn Dragon and research the sense of smell on a designated website. Young scholars identify scents and play an Internet...
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Sense Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Access your young poets' senses and emotions with this activity, which guides them through the process of writing a "sense poem." After working on a sense poem as a class and modeling the procedure, individuals work on their own poems...
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Reading Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Present your class with an overview of poetry-related information. The slides are clearly organized by topic, starting with reading poetry, ending with myths, and touching on everything from the five senses to open and closed forms of...
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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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Investigating The Mysteries Of Third Grade

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use logic and knowledge of mathematics facts to solve problems. They see that pigments can be broken down into separate colors. Pupils recognize the capacity of water to move upward and measure the height water travels up...