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Curated OER

Engineering and the Senses: Hearing

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of hearing. In this 5 senses lesson, students consider how humans and animals use the sense of hearing along with their other senses. Students discuss the body parts responsible for the 5 senses and...
Organizer
Curated OER

Imagery Chart

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this imagery worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the five senses that they observe. Students complete 5 sections.
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Winnipeg School Division Numeracy Project

Dot Card and Ten Frame Activities

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What fun, simple number value activities these are! Using dot cards and ten frames, 34 educational games are briefly described to help diversify these great strategies. For example, in the game "I Wish I Had..." the teacher holds up a...
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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Color Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners describe colors. In this descriptive writing lesson, students brainstorm color descriptions using all of the senses except sight. Learners write poems including similes, sensory images, and interesting word choice. Examples are...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Animals Use Their Senses to Find Food

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners plan a scavenger hunt for food and provide classmates with clues. In this animal adaptation instructional activity, students view videos showing how various animal species find food. They create a scavenger hunt for their...
Unit Plan
American Institute of Architects

Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson, 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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stick Out Your Tongue

For Teachers K
Students explore their sense of taste and recognize good foods to eat. In this tasting lesson, students recognize that their tongue has taste buds for different types of tastes. Students create a bar graph showing their favorite taste (...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trees

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explore tree species based on their features. In this tree lesson, students visit a wooded area and work with a partner to describe distinctive features of trees using all of the senses except "sight." A discovery worksheet is...
Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Conference Tables

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils analyze a pattern of conference tables to determine the number of tables needed and the number of people that can be seated for a given size. Individuals develop general formulas for the two growing number patterns and...
Activity
Exploratorium

Squirming Palm

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You will need an electric drill and some Velcro™ in order to have this activity available for your class. It is, however, an intriguing display of optical illusion. After watching a spinning disk (provided), viewers look at one of...
Organizer
School District No. 71

Adding Written Detail: Using Jane Yolen’s Owl Moon as a Mentor Text

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Access your senses with a worksheet on sensory language. Based on Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, the worksheet prompts kids to find examples of each of the five senses, as well as phrases for inner emotion. 
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Statistics Education Web

What Does the Normal Distribution Sound Like?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Groups collect data describing the number of times a bag of microwave popcorn pops at given intervals. Participants discover that the data fits a normal curve and answer questions based on the distribution of this data.
Lesson Plan
Statistics Education Web

It’s Elemental! Sampling from the Periodic Table

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How random is random? Demonstrate the different random sampling methods using a hands-on activity. Pupils use various sampling techniques to choose a random sample of elements from the periodic table. They use the different samples to...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Geometric Effect of Multiplying by a Reciprocal

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Class members perform complex operations on a plane in the 17th segment in the 32-part series. Learners first verify that multiplication by the reciprocal does the same geometrically as it does algebraically. The class then circles back...
Activity
Noyce Foundation

Cutting a Cube

For Students K - 12th Standards
Teach the ins and outs of the cube! A series of five K–12 level activities explore the make-up of the cube. The beginning lessons focus on the vocabulary related to the cube. Later lessons explore the possible nets that describe a cube....
Handout
Nosapo

Writing about a Meal

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
You don't need to be a food critic to describe your meal accurately! A series of activities introduce learners to vivid adjectives when writing about the taste, smell, and feel of food. After working with word choice, parts of a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore and study about the five senses. They focus on their sense of smell and interact with certain ingredients, including white vinegar. Each student also helps to create and share a concept map on the sense of smell...
PPT
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5 Funky Little Monkeys

For Teachers K
Here is a cute twist on the classic, "5 Little Monkeys." Students will sing 5 funky little monkeys jumping on the bed and then subtract 5-1=4 to determine how many monkeys are left.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Role Does Light Play Within the Vision Process?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the relationship between light and vision. In groups, they participate in experiments to discover how different wavelengths are divided in the visible spectrum. They record their answers and discuss their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Eyes Have It!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Reading essays about deep-sea expeditions open this lesson on crustacean vision. Marine biology explorers study the compound eye and then complete a worksheet in response to all they have discovered. Although the lesson doesn't offer an...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Sense Of Touch

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the sense of touch. In this science lesson plan, students participate in hands-on activities that broaden their perspectives pertaining the sense of touch.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Name That Number Game

For Students 4th - 5th
In this number sense worksheet, learners use the five number cards that are given to make the number 16. They list different mathematical expressions that will make the number 16 using any of the 5 number cards. They complete a table...

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