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Outdoor Observation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars use observation materials to record what they find outdoors. In this senses lesson plan, students use their five senses to observe things outside. They use a clipboard, pencil, crayons, magnifying glass, and their senses...
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Let Us Be Sensible

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students describe the five senses. They perform an investigation using sensory organs associated with each of the senses. Students identify, describe and extend repeating relationship (pattern) found in common, objects, sounds and...
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Cloze Passage: Extra Senses

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this extra senses cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Multi-sensory Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use their senses to help describe special place they have been. They write short sensory-image essay that incorporate all five of their senses, and identify sensory language while reading different pieces of literature.
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Earthworm Nervous System

For Teachers K - 5th
Investigate the nervous system of an earthworm! Your class gets into pairs to test, record, and draw conclusions about the reaction earthworms have to different stimuli (sound, light, and smell).
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Village Descriptions

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses lesson plan, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class.  Students...
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U.S. History: Our Constitutional Amendments

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct Internet research about Constitutional Amendments and present oral reports on their findings. Their reports also include visual representations depicting their chosen amendment's focal point. Students discuss the...
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Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners write a poem. In this language arts lesson, students discuss what they hear and see in a garden. Learners write a poem about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden.
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Outrageous Ooze

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine states of matter. In this solids and liquids lesson, students conduct a scientific investigation that requires them to make ooze and record their observations pertaining to it.
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Medicine in the Middle Ages 1100- 1400

For Students 7th - 12th
In this history of medicine worksheet, learners explore details about doctors, illnesses, hospitals, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
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Writing a Memorable Poem

For Students 7th - 12th
Nascent poets carefully examine a color photograph and then respond to a series of questions. Using these responses, they craft a poem prompted by the image. A link to powerful photos is included so the exercise can be repeated.
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Understanding Hard Words

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Two strategies for decoding unfamiliar words are featured on a worksheet that illustrates how to use the parts of words (prefix, root, and suffix) and context to determine meaning. Examples are included as is a guided practice exercise.
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The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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Using My Senses

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students observe crickets in the terrarium. Have them record in their journal any evidence of crickets having senses. Then they answer questions like these: How do they use their sense organs? Where are they are located?
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Features of An Effective Advertisement

For Students 7th - 9th
In this advertisement instructional activity, students read the features of an effective advertisement before noting whether these feature are include in an ad the are looking at. They look at an advertisement and tell whether it is...
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Analysis of Theme in Impressionist writing

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the concepts of Impressionism and theme. They choose a section of narration which presents Henry Fleming's vision of war. They analyze this section to determine which images invoke the senses: sight, sound,...
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Color Senses Words

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this sense words worksheet, students read a passage and color sense words different colors as instructed: sound-purple, taste-yellow, touch-green, sight-blue, smell-orange. 
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The Peppermint Beetle

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students describe various ways insects use their sense of smell, and examine why some insects use scent marking. They conduct a scent hunt, searching for a particular scent on the trees on school grounds.
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Choose the Adjective

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Is this learning exercise challenging or chewy? Allow your pupils to choose the correct adjective for 18 sentences in order to find out.
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Reading Comprehension 4: level 9

For Students 8th - 10th
Whether you use this reading comprehension activity as the basis for a short lesson on comprehension strategies or for additional practice, the passage about tricky octopi is sure to engage the interest of your young scientists. 
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Salmon Homing Instincts

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study the conditions of salmon imprinting as the fish returns to spawn in its native waters. Scented cards are used to mimic the imprinting process as the student fishes search for and identify obstacles to reaching their native...
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Go Free or Die

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Groups of older elementary learners begin their study of figurative language by visiting a website and completing the exercises detailed there. They then apply what they have learned by finding examples in several poems. Finally, they...
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Nutrition and the Elderly

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Study the nutrition of elderly people and how it helps them to remain independent and healthy.  Learners investigative the nutrition concerns of the elderly. MyPlate, vitamine requirements and sensory changes in the elderly are...
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Shells: An Investigation

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

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