Social stories are wonderful teaching tools specifically designed for learners with Asperger's, autism, PDD-NOS, non-verbal learning disabilities, or other developmental disabilities. They are used to model appropriate social behaviors...

Learners explore visual sense. In this biology lesson plan, students perform a series of tests on the reliability of their visual sense, record their observations for each test, and conclude from their data how reliable their visual...

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...

Fractions, decimals, and percents all say the same thing! Show your classes how to convert between the three forms using visual and numeric representations. Then lead them to an understanding of scientific notation.

Third graders practice using visualization to aid in their reading comprehension. After a reading a chapter from the book "Charlotte's Web," students write a brief summary of the plot using their visualizations, aided by reading...

Third graders listen to the story Where the Wild Things Are, and draw pictures to illustrate what they think is happening. Students share their visualizations with their partners.

Art classes, like any lab class, require extensive preplanning and set-up time. Use this planning template in the quiet before the storm to identify the equipment and materials that will be needed, the procedures and processes...

Students create puppets to teach concepts such as history and weather. In this Puppetmania lesson, students manipulate their puppets to show a range of emotions, facial expressions, and actions. Students design puppets and learn about...

Students describe colors. In this descriptive writing activity, students brainstorm color descriptions using all of the senses except sight. Students write poems including similes, sensory images, and interesting word choice. Examples...

Learners create poetry and verse, using all 5 senses to paint a visual image of life in a Japanese-American internment camp.

Young scholars create an ocean haiku. In this haiku activity, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Young scholars watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.

Third graders arrange numbers up to 1,000. In this arranging numbers activity, 3rd graders play a game to try and build the biggest number they can using number tiles.  Students work in groups to draw number tiles from a jar and...

Students access prior knowledge of the five senses and relate to students with disabilities. In this people with disabilities lesson, students research and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast famous people and their...

Students write about their favorite thing using all five senses, where possible.

Students learn about the life of Helen Keller. In this cultural and disability awareness instructional activity, students read a biography about Helen Keller and discuss the differences in her life and theirs. Students discuss which...

Students create stories using only pictures.  In this visual storytelling instructional activity, students read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola and analyze the wordless story.  Students create new text for the book by...

You will need an electric drill and some Velcro™ in order to have this activity available for your class. It is, however, an intriguing display of optical illusion. After watching a spinning disk (provided), viewers look at one of...

Pupils put together their own stroboscopes so that they can observe how cyclically moving images appear to merge into a singular object. This, and several other activities published by the same source, illuminate the way the brain...

Budding artists discover what color value means with regard to art. They read the definition of color value at the top of the page, choose three different colored pencils, then use the provided spaces to create color values with each. By...

Reading and writing numbers is thoroughly covered in this well done slide-show presentation. Learners will see how number and number words correlate in relation to place value. The slide-show is text heavy and could use more visual aids...

Poor organization often destroys an otherwise good paper. After writing a first draft, individuals consider the organization of ideas, a topic discussed in the 16th handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series. The resource covers...

What techniques do advertisers use to reach a target audience? Pupils discover the answer with the second of four Admongo lesson plans. Scholars learn about the most common strategies advertisers use to convince people to buy something....

Fifth graders, utilizing a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings, eat a sweet treat and then list eight different adjectives for each of the five senses. They then describe a sweet with at least then adjectives...

Students are taught that they can gather information about objects using the five senses of vision, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. They are told that some sensing, like sight, is done remotely. Students observe how a camera can...