TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Taste It?
Few people are aware of how crucial the sense of smell is to identifying foods, or the adaptive value of being able to identify a food as being familiar and therefore safe to eat. In this activity and activity, students conduct an...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Smelling and Tasting
Kids learn about the science of smelling and tasting. Two senses of the human body.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses
This lesson plan site delves into the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. Students will be able to describe the ways senses affect their lives and how a pediatrician uses his/her senses to examine patients.
Treehut
Suzy's World: Taste
At this site from Suzy's World by Suzy Cato, you can find out how your mouth works and try an experiment involving taste.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Introduction to the Senses
This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Old Salty: Does Age Affect the Ability to Detect Salt?
Sauerkraut, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, kimchi, corned beef, processed cheeses, smoked lunch meats. Do you like these high-salt foods? What about your grandparents, do they? Do your grandparents seem to like most foods to be a bit...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Sensory Perception
Learn the different types of sensory receptors, and describe the structures responsible for the special senses of taste, smell, hearing, balance, and vision.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Taste a Smell Test
Take the jellybean test to see how your sense of smell enhances taste.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Smell and Taste Disorders
The Merck Manual offers an interesting article that describes ways in which your sense of smell can be affected. Diagnosis and treatment for loss of smell are also discussed.
SEDL
Sedl: Five Senses
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Sense of Taste
An image of "The Sense of Taste", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1618 (Oil on panel, 64 x 108 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Sense of Taste
An image of "Sense of Taste", created by Jusepe De Ribera from 1613-16 (Oil on canvas, 117 x 88 cm).
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Investigation of the Taste Buds
This lesson plan allows students to taste sugar, baking soda, vinegar, and salt, which are then categorized as salty, sour, bitter, and sweet.
Michigan Reach Out
Taste Buds
In this lesson plan students discover where different tastes are located on the tongue.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Senses
In the following activities students can learn about the basic characteristics and structures of the brain, skull and sensory system; investigate sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; and discover how the brain and the senses are...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Pet Poll: A Taste Test for Fluffy and Fido
In this mammalian biology science fair project, students will determine which brand, type, or flavor of treats their pet prefers. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
Curated OER
Science of Cooking: Your Sense of Taste
How does your tongue taste? This site has tounge images, quizzes, activities and more.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
University of Washington
The Senses
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...
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