Sense of Touch

Youngsters work together to use their five senses and explore a garden setting, identifying what they are experiencing and illustrating their perceptions using a graphic organizer.

Look around and explore. Little ones use their five senses with some day-to-day activities designed to guide observation and apply STEM strategies. Young scientists learn through comparing/contrasting and observing with magnifiers as...

Students explore solid objects using touch. In this art instructional activity, students are blindfolded and given a 3 dimensional object to explore with their hands. After the object is removed, students draw what they think the...

Reveal the 5 senses to your young learners with this resource. After reading a rhyming verse about each of the 5 senses, class members match pictures of body parts to each of the 5 senses and trace the sensory word. As a final activity,...

Young scholars identify their five senses by reading a story.  In this human anatomy lesson, students read the book, Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr, and touch a variety of objects.  Young scholars describe and record each object...

Kids love to guess what's hidden in the bag! This classic lesson allows them to do just that by using two of their senses: their sense of touch and their sense of hearing. Objects are hidden inside a sock, and pupils must guess what they...

Students identify the five senses. In this biology activity, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.

This lesson is introduced by the story "I can Tell by Touching" by Carolyn Otto. The students listen to the story and then attempt to identify mystery objects by using their sense of touch only. They conclude the lesson by creating...

Learners touch objects and describe what they feel using vocabulary words for the sense of touch. In this touch lesson plan, students use words such as texture, bumpy, rough, smooth, sticky, and soft.

Learners investigate their sense of touch to help become more descriptive with their observations. In this sensory lesson, students reach inside a box to feel an object then guess what it is.  Learners then use both senses of touch and...