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Your Five Senses Lesson PlanYour Five Senses Lesson Plan
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Grade
K - 12th
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Science
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Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategy
Inquiry-Based Learning
Year
2007
Lesson Plan

Your Five Senses

Curated and Reviewed by Lesson Planet

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

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Concepts

sense of sight, vision, hearing, the central nervous system, human body systems, sense of smell, the five senses, sense of taste, sense of touch

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five senses, hearing, nervous system, sight, smell, taste, touch, science

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