PBS
Curious George: Sand and Soil
Two sensory tables—wet and dry—allow scholars to use their sense of sight, touch, and smell to observe the changes when the dirt mixes with water. A short video relates the STEM learning experience to a fun video clip where Curious...
University of Minnesota
Attention and Sensory Processing
Ever wondered how your brain manages all of the information it receives every second of every day? The sights, the sounds, the smells ... each one filed away for later use or moved to the front of the line so your body can react. Through...
Curated OER
My Five Senses
Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touch are all of the five senses that are visualized in this colorful PowerPoint. Each slide includes a corresponding picture with each sense. Tip: After each sense, ask your students to share...
Hachette Children’s Group
Our Five Senses
Show your class how to experience their world with the five sense. With worksheets on each sense, learners investigate their surroundings and categorize them into sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste.
Lakeshore Learning
Five Senses Sorting Game
Hone your senses with a fun educational game. Learners match pictures to each of the five senses before spinning a makeshift wheel, and matching their senses to their spin.
Curated OER
Taste, Smell, Touch
Students explore the senses, taste, touch and smell. In this lesson plan about senses, students perform experiments, or activities. Students complete three activities in order to become more familiar with the three senses of taste,...
Curated OER
Engineering the Senses
Students become aware of texture and the sense of touch. In this senses instructional activity, students become aware of their dominant hand. Students draw pictures using texture. Students describe a texture of an item in a mystery bag.
Curated OER
Ten Red Apples; The Five Senses
A clever lesson plan designed around an apple awaits your learners. Descriptive words are used to explain what they believe is inside a bag while using their five senses. Students read the story The Apple Pie Tree and are introduced to...
Curated OER
Sense Poems
Students explore 5 senses poetry. In this poetry writing lesson, students visualize a special day and brainstorm related vivid adjectives and phrases. Students create mindmaps of the five senses to go with their visualization...
Curated OER
The Five Senses
Teaching little ones about their five senses is always a fun experience. Accent your classroom with a fun image that shows real pictures of real kids hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
Alabama Learning Exchange
The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World
Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson plan, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use...
Curated OER
The Five Senses
Students participate in a scavenger hunt using their sense of sight. They bring various texture materials from home and discuss how things feel. Students identify the smells inside five jars. They discuss things they hear and why hearing...
Curated OER
Focusing on Imagery through your Senses
Students enrich their writing of an original scene by incorporating imagery, visual pictures and scenes painted in the readers mind by using one of their senses as a unique writing tool.
Curated OER
Remote Sensing and Landsat Satellite Imagery
Middle schoolers comprehend how satellites use remote sensing to produce images. They use supervised classification with Landsat images. Students recognize that the earth's surface has different basic land surfaces that reflect/emit...
Curated OER
Special Senses- Hearing and Equilibrium
In this health worksheet, students examine the human body and make mental connections to the target function highlighted in the sheet.
Curated OER
Colors of Winter-Body Parts/Senses
Fun is in the air as learners with special needs engage in sensory-filled activities. They discuss color, snow, cold, winter, and body parts while touching and smelling various objects. They discuss the parts of the body with relation to...
Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 4
Twenty-eight lessons make a unit that focuses on skills practice. Lessons explore r-controlled vowels, past tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, and two-syllable words. Pupils read a story, answer questions, and draft a descriptive essay...
Springfield Public Schools District 186
Form and Structure of Poetry
If anyone suffers from metrophobia—the fear of poetry—the PowerPoint on the elements of poetry may help alleviate their worries. The presentation introduces learners to poetic elements, including simile, metaphor, and personification....
Curated OER
Touch and Feel Box
Students investigate their sense of touch to help become more descriptive with their observations. In this sensory lesson plan, students reach inside a box to feel an object then guess what it is. Students then use both senses...
Curated OER
The Touch N Feel Box
Students discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight. In this sense of touch lesson plan, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not...
Curated OER
Making Sense of Our Senses
Students participate in activities about the five senses. They explore objects, listen to stories and discuss the senses with classmates.
Curated OER
What's in the Sock?
Second graders use their sense of touch to identify a variety of objects. For this sense of touch lesson, 2nd graders listen to a read aloud of Sandra Boynyon's, Fuzzy Fuzzy, Fuzzy. They talk about different textures and about the...
Curated OER
Freddie Feels
Students become aware of the sense of touch and the body parts effected by touching. In this five senses lesson, students touch mystery items and create a touch page. Students discuss the body parts connected to the sense of...
Curated OER
Touch and Discover
Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. In this touch and discover lesson, students describe items. Students sort items using a Venn diagram.