Touch and Feel

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.

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 through their...

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...

Test your learners' sensory awareness with three hands-on activities that ask pupils to use their other senses to identify and describe everyday objects hidden from sight.  

Students become aware of texture and the sense of touch. For this senses lesson, students become aware of their dominant hand. Students draw pictures using texture. Students describe a texture of an item in a mystery bag.

In this writing worksheet, students choose two objects that describe each word. For example, under "soft" students write, "cotton balls" and "silk scarf."

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

Students 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.  Students then use both senses of touch and...

Students explore the five senses. In this touch instructional activity, students touch a hidden item and try to decide what it is. Students discuss things they can feel but cannot see. Students discuss the characteristics of the...

Students explore the sense of touch. In this human biology lesson, students are blindfolded and touch several items (jello, water, cotton, etc.) with different textures. Students discuss how they knew what they were touching and how...