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.

Pupils explore solid objects using touch. In this art lesson, students are blindfolded and given a 3 dimensional object to explore with their hands. After the object is removed, pupils draw what they think the object looked like. The...

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...

Take a trip to the Colombian rainforest through the sense of touch. Here, class members discover what's inside a mystery box: wood, cinnamon, Brazil nuts, a banana, and orange. Then, the class takes a trip outside for a tree rubbing...

Dr. Binocs shows viewers his bag of five senses! He explains how important our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are, and how they are related to our five senses.

Students 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.  Students describe and record each object they touch and...

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...

Learners identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, 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...

Young scholars 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.