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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.
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Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate taste buds. In this biology lesson, students taste several sweet, sour, and salty foods to identify how their taste buds play a role in how things taste.
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Taste Buds

For Teachers 1st
First graders taste a variety of items and record a full sentence about the way they taste.  In this taste buds lesson, 1st graders predict and then taste various items.  Students draw a picture of the tongue and show the part that...
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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 (...
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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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A Taste of Our Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore their classroom tastes. In this lesson plan, students list the four tastes that the tongue can detect, map the individual areas of taste on the tongue, and demonstrate the ability to identify objects through the use of...
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Taste Test

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, complete a science lab in which they perform a blind taste test on eight different foods--some sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. They determine which parts of the tongue "taste" which kinds of foods. they record...
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Name That Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze taste buds. In this taste lesson plan, students complete an experiment in groups of four people. Students have four cups with a different substance in each cup. One student dips a Q-tip into each cup and tests on another...
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Sense of Taste

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students swab different sections of the tongue to identify taste buds. For this sense of taste lesson, students make predictions and conduct an experiment. Students experiment with a variety of flavors and discuss results of the taste...
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The Tongue...A Sense of Taste

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the sense of taste. In this biology lesson plan, students consider 4 types of tastes, recognize the papillae or receptors on the tongue, and locate and label the different taste sense organs on the tongue.
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Cooking Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders taste different flavors on their popcorn. In this taste bud lesson, 4th graders make predictions about taste and dip popcorn into four different flavors. They record how the flavors tasted - sweet, salty, bitter, or sour.
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Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the four familiar tastes and taste buds.
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Taste Buds

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students sample several sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods. They determine what part of their tongue tasted each flavor.
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Taste and Smell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experiment with sense of smell, and how it relates to sense of taste.
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Our Sense of Taste

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the relationship between the senses of taste and smell using a blindfold taste test. In partners, they taste different foods with their noses plugged and unplugged. They create a life size outline of the human body to...
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Taste (Gustation)

For Teachers K - 12th
Students conduct various experiments to see if different parts of the tongue are more sensitive to different characteristics of food.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science instructional activity, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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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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Writing Effective Dialogue

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Wait, there is an effective way to practice writing dialogue with your high school class? Great! High schoolers will have a blast writing dialogue using a list of potentially silly situations and an image of people talking. Employ the...
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Digestion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders answer the question what happens to the food you eat? They complete a worksheet about the food you eat. They discuss the different types of teeth that we have. Students complete digestion poster in which they color and...
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Introducing Models to Elementary School Students

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars explore the concept of models. In this model lesson, students examine 3-dimensional models of various objects and body parts to better understand the natural world.
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Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...