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Village Descriptions

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students respond to teacher questioning about villages and how their senses help describe things.  In this five senses lesson plan, students work in groups to make a written picture of another student in the class.  Students...
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U.S. History: Our Constitutional Amendments

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct Internet research about Constitutional Amendments and present oral reports on their findings. Their reports also include visual representations depicting their chosen amendment's focal point. Students discuss the...
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Fabric All Around

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore human senses by participating in an arts and crafts activity. For this fabric identification lesson, students discuss the uses for fabric and the history of cloth. Students identify the different materials in their...
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The Sensitive Scavenger

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create multi-sensory scavenger hunt worksheet to be used on a scavenger hunt throughout the schoolyard habitat area to introduce students to concepts of biodiversity and interdependence within a habitat.
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Senses, Spaces And Structure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop greater ease with their bodies and their personal environments. They extend body space into its immediate architectural boundaries and draw a simple yet detailed floor plan of a physical space or structure (bedroom,...
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Outrageous Ooze

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine states of matter. In this solids and liquids lesson, students conduct a scientific investigation that requires them to make ooze and record their observations pertaining to it.
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Exponents

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore mathematics by participating in a SMART Board activity. In this exponents lesson, 6th graders identify the different exponential powers of a number and discuss how the power of the number accumulates. Students...
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Halloween Creative Writing Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a creative essay from a pumpkin's point of view. They role play that they are pumpkin in a patch and need to convince a visitor to the patch that they are the best choice for a Halloween pumpkin. They focus on using...
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Adventures in Alice

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a haiku and illustrate it on the computer. In this haiku lesson plan, students review the history of the haiku while they are outside and then write their own. Students then use a computer program to illustrate their poem.
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A New World and the Emergence of a New Race

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study specific terms and concepts about the discovery of America. They improve their history knowledge about some Latin American regions and their map and geography skills of the New World. They describe what is meant by...
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Irish Dancing: The Walls of Limerick

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice their dancing skills. In this Irish dancing lesson, students follow the provided instructions to dance with a partner in a group to the tune "The Walls of Limerick."
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Reptiles

For Students 9th - 10th
In this reptiles worksheet, students identify and label the different parts of reptiles. They complete 10 short answer questions after reading the information provided in the worksheet.
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CD Snowman

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars design and produce snowmen.  In this winter lesson, students use CD's to create 3 dimensional snowmen.  Young scholars discuss the senses of sight and touch as well as compare their craft snowmen to a real snowman.
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Texture in Fashion

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students participate in an activity where they are blindfolded to guess what type of fabric it is, relying on their sense of touch. They discuss different items in the classroom that have texture and give a list of words that describe...
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Brain and Senses

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the brain through multiple senses. In this biology lesson, students experiment with different activities involving taste, memory, touch, and sight to understand how the brain works. Students work in partners and...
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Using My Senses

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students observe crickets in the terrarium. Have them record in their journal any evidence of crickets having senses. Then they answer questions like these: How do they use their sense organs? Where are they are located?
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The Five Senses - Observation, Experimentation, Prediction, and Categorization.

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in this creative and well-designed lesson. They rotate through five learning stations, each devoted to one of the senses. They practice observation, experimentation, prediction, and categorization.
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Dolphin Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students listen to a lecture on dolphin communication methods. They consider ways in which humans communicate and participate in an activity to assess the role of smell in human communication.
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Touch-Drawings

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore an object without seeing it then draw what s/he felt.  In this touch-drawings lesson plan, students partner and place objects in a paper bag so the other person cannot see it.  Then learners use their hands and...
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Features of An Effective Advertisement

For Students 7th - 9th
In this advertisement instructional activity, students read the features of an effective advertisement before noting whether these feature are include in an ad the are looking at. They look at an advertisement and tell whether it is...
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Analysis of Theme in Impressionist writing

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the concepts of Impressionism and theme. They choose a section of narration which presents Henry Fleming's vision of war. They analyze this section to determine which images invoke the senses: sight, sound,...
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Basic Safety Practices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate an awareness of how to use basic safety practices accordingly. They classify substances that are safe and unsafe to taste and touch. In groups the students explore different substances and explain how they are safe...
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Color Senses Words

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this sense words worksheet, students read a passage and color sense words different colors as instructed: sound-purple, taste-yellow, touch-green, sight-blue, smell-orange. 
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The Tempest: Kinesthetic Grammar Approach

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Though beautiful, William Shakespeare's prose can be inhibiting for learners who are new to his works. A lesson based on The Tempest guides high schoolers through the paraphrasing process, including noting the subjects and verbs to...

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