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Activity
Las Cumbres Observatory

Astronaut Training: Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Gravity isn't the only thing astronauts lose in space. Learners investigate why astronauts complain about a loss of taste while in space in a hands-on activity. They taste test foods while limiting their other senses and rate each food...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

TE Lesson: Can You Taste It?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate how animals adapt to use its senses to identify foods that are nutritious or noxious. They determine how they associate foods with other things such as birthdays. They discuss the role of the nervous system in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taste, Smell, Touch

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the senses, taste, touch and smell. In this lesson about senses, students perform experiments, or activities. Students complete three activities in order to become more familiar with the three senses of taste, touch, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson plan, students identify the four basic taste buds and their locations on our tongue. Students participate in an experiment to investigate how our taste buds work.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Investigation Of The Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students investigate the sense of tastes as they experience salty, sour, bitter, and sweet tastes. Students then discover how taste buds do their job.
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Lesson Plan
Serendip

How Do We Sense the Flavors of Food?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
We taste with our taste buds, so why do flavors change when we have a stuffy nose? Scholars experiment with taste testing while holding their noses and then while smelling. They record their observations in pairs and come together to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Engineering and the Senses: Smell

For Teachers K
Students define the sense of smell. For this smell sense lesson, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the importance of smell to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Five Senses

For Teachers K
Pupils 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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taste and Smell

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils experiment to determine classmates taste and smell to find out which sends the clearest message to the brain.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Use Your Nose

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore how their senses work. In this senses lesson, students use the sense of smell to observe various spices. Young scholars discuss their findings.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use all...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Your Five Senses

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Attention and Sensory Processing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Plants Spice Up Our Lives

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study plants. In this biology lesson plan, 3rd graders label and identify parts of plants, identify spices obtained from plants, and determine what part of a plant a spice comes from by using taste, touch, smell and sight.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Frozen, Canned or Fresh?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars compare spinach. In this Science lesson, students construct an experiment to test fresh, frozen, and canned spinach taste and texture. Young scholars record their findings in charts and graphs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Come to Your Senses

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore their senses. In this biology lesson plan, students will learn about their senses, what affects them, and how the brain works to control our senses in a series of lab activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Your Senses

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars use their senses to make observations. In this senses lesson plan, students investigate unknown substances by using their senses for observations. Young scholars identify the number of the substances used, the color, the...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Senses Used to Observe Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this senses worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by writing in the 5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Senses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this senses worksheet, students use the terms listed on the eye to label the figure and describe how light entering the eye becomes an image seen. Then they name the three main sections of the ear and explain what the cochlea does.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Our Five Senses

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore human anatomy by creating an oral report in class. In this five senses lesson, students read several real life situations and identify which of the five senses help in certain situations. Students create an oral...
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Printables
Curated OER

The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
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. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Senses Tell Me...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to use their sense to draw conclusions. In this human biology lesson, students use their senses to observe various objects in learning centers. The centers include tasting salt, touching sandpaper, hearing bells and...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

What's This? Sensing

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
There is a scallop that relies on sight so much that it actually has more than 100 eyes! There are many species that rely heavily on one sense or another. An online interactive resource has youth read about several of these animals. The...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Your Five Senses

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this categorizing worksheet, students use the words in the word box to think about what they would see, feel, hear, touch, and taste. Students then categorize the words into the appropriate section. Students then list their favorite...

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