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Tesol: Sensory Details Worksheet: Adding Details Add Interest

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Use this worksheet to practice enhancing your writing by using sensory language. Sensory details include words that describe sights, sounds, and smells of the setting, characters, and interactions.
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My Science Site

Different Types of Cells: Muscle, Blood, Sensory, Germ Cells [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Page providing colorful illustrations of blood cells, sensory cells, muscle tissue, and epithelial cells.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Reading With Our Eyes, Fingers, Toes, Ears and Nose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, learners are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides seven steps to follow when writing a descriptive essay. Ideas for ways to incorporate sensory details are emphasized. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Presenting With Sensory Enhancements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on the do's and don'ts of using visual aids.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 2 10 14: 'Sensory Fiction' Allows You to Feel Your Book!

For Students 6th - 8th
Article reports on a new technology being developed at MIT that will allow readers to feel what is happening in the books they read. Includes video.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the literary technique of imagery to see how sensory language contributes to the meaning and feeling of a poem in this animated video [1:23] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The following online tutorial explains how sensory stimuli are perceived and interpreted.
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Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: How the Five Senses Change With Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the link between anatomical changes related to aging and sensory loss. Delves into the problems associated with each of the five senses.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Literature and Composition: Descriptive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on descriptive writing including discussing what it is and the chararacteristics. It provides links to the web articles: "How to Write a Descriptive Essay," "5 Model Descriptive Paragraphs," "MLA Formatting and Style...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Senses

For Students K - 1st
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...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Hearing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What causes sound? How do our ears detect sound? How do our brains recognize sound? In this lesson students investigate hearing and discover that sensory receptors in the ears collect sound information and transmit it to the brain, and...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Using All Our Sources to Understand Our World

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How do we use our senses to understand our surroundings? What types of input are provided by the different senses? In this lesson plan students use all of their senses to understand that there are different types of sensory receptors in...
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Other

The Internet Dermatology Society: Anatomy of the Skin

For Students 9th - 10th
Despite the title of the page, this site explores the entire integumentary system, including skin, hair and nails. Content also includes the cutaneous sensory and cutaneous vascular systems, pigmentary system, sweat glands, sebaceous...
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Other

All Psych: Chapter 5: Section 3: Perception

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Through studying the sensory system this article will help learners evaluate the power of perception through visual sensation.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems students discover the function of the sensory structures in the human body.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Central Processing

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the pathways that sensory systems follow into the central nervous system, and understand the difference between the two major ascending pathways in the spinal cord.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Commanding a Robot Using Sound

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students continue their exploration of the human senses and their engineering counterparts, focusing on the auditory sense. Working in small groups, students design, create and run programs to control the motion of LEGO TaskBots. By...
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Story md.com: Infant and Newborn Development

For Students 9th - 10th
When will my baby take his first step or say her first word? During their first year, babies start to develop skills they will use for the rest of their lives. The normal growth of babies can be broken down into the following areas:...
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Globio

Glossopedia: Noses

For Students 3rd - 8th
Some are cold and wet. Others are long and droopy. Some are so sensitive they can detect a drop of blood in 94 liters of water. They're noses, a scent-sational sensory organ.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a descriptive...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Senses

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in a lesson that teaches them to associate certain expressions and words with specific feelings. Included are a senses PowerPoint, a model of a graphic organizer, and a video and picture of the students engaged in...

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