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Touch Math

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using the touch math system, learners engage in activities to practice adding numbers. While the lesson is laid out in an explicit manner, there isn't a guide explaining the touch math system.
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Can You Tell By Touch?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
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Touching Traits

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students describe objects using only their sense of touch. In this lesson on describing characteristics, students use only their sense of touch to describe an unseen object in a box. This lesson can be used an an introduction to plant...
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Lesson Plan Seven: Sensorama

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify five senses, and use their senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste to distinguish different objects, sounds, smells and tastes, and write their answers in the booklet.
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Give Me Five!

For Teachers K
Students become familiar with their five senses and how their experiences would change without them.  In this observations activity, students observe using their five senses in a garden.  Students illustrate what they've...
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Are You Aware?

For Students K - 2nd
Bring the five senses to life with a fun science experiment! Kindergartners and first graders read an explanation of the five senses, then identify which items Sophia can sense if she is blindfolded. A science explanation at the bottom...
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Garden Detective Sensory Tour

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
To prepare for a sensory walk outside, the whole class engages in a discussion of the five senses, kids close their eyes, and share what they sense. Groups then follow a guide, tour an area, and share what they experience...
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Reliving History through Slave Narratives

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Helpful for an American literature or history unit, this lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine slavery in the United States. They read slave narratives that were part of the Federal Writers' Project and then conduct their own...
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Using Your Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this senses worksheet, middle schoolers answer two questions about observations using the senses. Students then give reasons why each sense may not give them all the information they need when making observations.
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Touch N' Feel Box

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are encouraged to use senses other than sight to record observations. They explore scientific questioning, observations and human senses (touch, hearing and sight). Students describe objects using their sense of touch and then...
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Finger Paint With Sounds

For Students Pre-K - 5th
Finger painting is fun, but finger painting with sounds is really fun. Finger painting is important for many reasons, it can help children develop a sense of creativity, foster social skills and emotional skills, it helps develop large...
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Poetry: The Most Compact Form of Literature

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Introducing or need to review literary devices and terms for a study of poetry? Though text heavy, the explanations and examples of key poetic devices will provide learners with the vocabulary they need to discuss and craft poems.
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Using the Senses as a Means of Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students use their senses in various situations to determine their accuracy. In this senses lesson, students use different senses to explore common objects. They find that their senses are not always accurate.
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Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore the five senses.  In this five senses science and literature lesson plan, students listen to The Magic School Bus Five Senses book, stopping to identify and discuss each sense.  Learners draw and label a...
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My Five Senses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore their 5 senses. In this 5 senses lesson, students participate in activities that require them to use the senses of smell, touch, hearing, taste, and sight.
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Puberty/Adolescence Day 5: What Will I Decide About Touch?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners follow the thoughtful decision model and decide which kind of touching is okay and which is not as a teen. In this touch lesson plan, students also learn how to communicate those decisions.
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Sense-itive Issues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the difficulties of adapting to the loss of different senses. They work in small groups, each developing a fictional superhero who experiences a loss of one of sense and must compensate for it with his or her other senses.
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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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In Touch with Apples

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars read "How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World", the story of a girl who traveled the world to find the ingredients to make her apple pie. They conduct a series of interdisciplinary activities including testing their...
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Feelin' Buggy

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss five senses, compare and contrast human and insect senses, use adjectives to describe things they touch, smell, and see, and write stories in first person describing what it would be like to be size of insect.
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Build Mastery: Visualization

For Teachers K - 3rd
What do you see? Young reader tap into the visualization process as they listen to or read a fiction story and fill out a graphic organizer. Model this first with a think-aloud, showing scholars how you visualize a familiar story. For...
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Math Throughout the Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners practice their number sense throughout the day. They practice their use and understanding of numbers in every part of the day. Students watch and listen to the teacher count students in class, sort themselves based on colors or...
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Add the Prepositions to Complete the Story

For Students 5th - 7th
What is a preposition? How many can you list? This activity has learners fill in the blanks with prepositions listed at the top of the page. Great practice opportunity!
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Geography Experience: Low Vision

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The world is a big and beautiful place; but how do you begin to understand it when you have low vision? Here is a great set of ideas focused on transforming any small room into a sensory paradise, themed to incite understanding about...

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