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Ideas to Images: Sight Sound Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, 7th Edition [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 1 of the seventh edition of "Sight Sound Motion" by Herbert Zettl. It includes the table of contents, author information, the preface, and a brief prologue. The topic of this chapter is Applied Media Aesthetics. He talks about...
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Introduction to the Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan allows students to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
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abcteach

Abcteach: Senses Flashcards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Colorful flashcards of the 5 senses with your choice of Arial or D'Nealian lettering.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Blind

For Students 9th - 10th
The poem shares the sad experience of seeing a loved one lose the sense of sight.
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Other

Media Visions: Meet Thomas Paine, a Visionary Revolutionist

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical article discusses Thomas Paine (1737-1809), English writer and social activist, who is best known for his popular essay, Common Sense, the pivotal call for American independence and democracy.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Sight and the Eye

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn about the science of Sight and the Eye. The sense of vision and how it works.
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Other

Media Vision Voices: Meet Thomas Paine

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an extensive biography of 18th century political writer Thomas Paine, click to read about his ideas placed in a contemporary context, and use research links to read more online.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute and Science Museum: Seeing

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at this sight and all of the activities it has to offer. Has great activities to use in the classroom as well as world wide web links.
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Backyard Science the Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergarten students will use their existing outdoor expertise to help them focus on the scientific study of their five senses in stations.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Christmas Bear and His Five Senses

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come along with Eric as he teaches Christmas Bear how to use his five senses.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: The Secret Life of Bats: Bat Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of an online exhibit on bats, this section focuses on bat senses: sight, olfaction (smell), echolocation, and hearing.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Five Senses

For Students K - 1st
The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch. The lesson will introduce each of the five senses one at a time. Students will then be assessed through a multiple choice...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things

For Students K - 1st
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects

For Students K - 1st
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
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San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It: Visual Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Vision or sight is one of the most important senses that animals can have. Learn about the anatomy of the different kinds of eyes .. simple, single-lens, and compound. Puzzles and games are included.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Sensory Perception

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the different types of sensory receptors, and describe the structures responsible for the special senses of taste, smell, hearing, balance, and vision.
Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses

For Students 3rd - 8th
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound for Sight

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Echolocation is the ability to orient by transmitting sound and receiving echoes from objects in the environment. As a result of a Marco-Polo type activity and subsequent lesson, students learn basic concepts of echolocation. They use...
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Sense of Sight

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Sense of Sight", created by Jan the Elder Brueghel in 1618 (Oil on panel, 65 x 109 cm).
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Fuller Brooch

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fuller Brooch is the earliest known personification of the Five Senses. This splendid circular brooch is made from hammered sheet silver. The center part is decorated with five figures who represent the five human senses. In the...
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PBS

Pbs: Nature: Raptor Force

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion of a Nature documentary about birds of prey, their sense of sight, and their powers of locomotion. Includes a game, Raptor Vision, that lets players see the world through the eyes of a raptor.