Touch and Discover

Students explore the sense of touch. They investigate unknown solids using the sense of touch. Pupils use their senses of touch to match feely gloves. Students explore body parts, by tracing their hands and feet on paper. They create a...

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...

Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. In this touch and discover lesson, students describe items.  Students sort items using a Venn diagram.

The wonderful world of Oobleck is entered in order to awaken your learner's sense of touch! As a warm up, learners put their hands in mystery bags in order to identify things that are wet, dry, hot, cold, hard, soft, rough, and smooth....

How does the sense of touch work? Is the sense of touch more sensitive in some parts of the body, such as fingertips, than in others? For this lesson learners explore the sense of touch by identifying mystery objects with their eyes...

Students work in pairs or small groups to identify and categorize various objects. One student is blindfolded and the other student chooses five objects for their partner to identify. The blindfolded student has to describe and try to...

Find out what makes the White-Tailed Deer unique when you explore this educational resource. This site identifies characteristics, life cycle, range, behavior, habitat and diet for this mammal.

Students explore the sense of touch. In this science lesson plan, students participate in hands-on activities that broaden their perspectives pertaining the sense of touch.

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

This activity helps learners who are blind or visually impaired to identify the functions of common objects. Alternatively, for other students a blindfold could be used.