Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science and the Brain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Describe the "mush-brain" effect, and test blindfolded subjects for their ability to identify items by smell. Explore the effect of biofeedback to help overcome illnesses, and attempt the mind-over-body techniques of visualizing and...
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Curated OER

The Senses

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...
Interactive
Inner Body

Innerbody: Nasal Passages

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Innerbody.com provides a general overview of how the human nasal passages work. A second page illustrates the use of the nasal cavity with animation.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.
Interactive
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...
Handout
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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of the five senses for k-2 students.
Article
Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Your Nose

For Students 3rd - 8th
Your nose lets you smell and is also the main gate to the respiratory system. Read this article for kids to discover just how it works.
Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that...
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Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
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Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
Graphic
Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
Graphic
Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.