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The five senses
The five senses - sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell – collect information about our environment that are interpreted by the brain. We make sense of this information based on previous experience, subsequent learning and by the combination of the information from each of the senses.
Identifying the five senses Try a printable science activity that focuses on the five senses. | Grades R, 1 | |
The five senses: Make a book Try a printable science activity that focuses on the senses. | Grades R, 1 | |
KWL Chart - your senses Introduce your students to a KWL chart that is a graphic organiser for recording what students Know, Want to know, and have Learned about their senses. This printable is customisable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing. | Grades R, 1, 2 | |
Kingfisher young knowledge: Senses teacher's guide Examine how we humans use our five senses with the discussion questions and activities in this teacher's guide for Senses. Students will have fun learning about the human body through language arts games and science activities that test the senses. | Grades R, 1, 2, 3 | |
What senses do we use to learn about things? | Grades 1 | |
Science fun: Sense cards Students sort a series of pictures based on which sense they stimulate. | Grades 1 | |
The senses: Family activity Suggest a family activity to parents that provide a series of take-home projects and vocabulary words related to the five senses and how we use them. | Grades 1 | |
The Senses: Vocabulary Distribute a printable set of vocabulary words related to the senses. | Grades 1 | |
Making sense of it all Students name the five senses in this activity. Then, they learn why each one is useful to us. | Grades 1, 2 | |
Five Senses: A Day at the Beach This summer-themed printable is a sensory writing activity. Students will use their five senses to write a paragraph about a day at the beach. They can respond to the prompt with details from a real-life experience or use their imagination. | Grades 1, 2, 3 | |
What senses do you use? Try a printable science activity that focuses on the five senses. | Grades 1, 2, 3 | |
The lost sense Try a printable science activity that focuses on the senses. | Grades 2, 3 | |
Describe the senses Try a printable science activity that focuses on the senses of hearing, tasting, and smelling. | Grades 2, 3 | |
My Sensory Organs Students learn which body parts correspond to each of their five senses. | Grades 2, 3, 4, 5 | |
Making sense of our senses Use a lesson that is designed to help students understand that our brain allows us to function. The lesson centres on the five senses and how we use them individually and together, in response to different situations. | Grades 3, 4 | |
Sense receptors: Sending signals to the brain | Grades 3, 4 | |
Our books of the senses Browse a printable teacher resource book that provides students with a variety of experiments involving the senses. | Grades 3, 4, 5 | |
Sense organs: Eyes and ears background information This resource is designed to be used in conjunction with the Sense Organs: Eyes and Ears Mini-Lesson. Use this resource as an introduction to or refresher for the basic concepts of the human eye and ear prior to presenting the material to students. | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Senses organs: Skin, nose, tongue background information | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Sense organs: Eyes and ears mini-lesson | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Eyes and Ears Mini-Lesson Use the slideshow, teacher resources, and student worksheets in this science mini-lesson to give students a general overview of the human eye and ear. | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Skin, Nose, Tongue Mini-Lesson Use the slideshow, teacher resources, and student worksheets in this science mini-lesson to give students a general overview of touch, taste, and smell This mini-lesson can be taught as part of 1 or 2 45-minute class periods. | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Super Senses! Exploring the 5 senses This FutureFit Project is a supplemental project-based lesson covering the 5 senses, human anatomy, and brain function. It is designed to reinforce core science subject material while also incorporating social-emotional learning and 21st Century skills and concepts. | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Super senses! Exploring the 5 senses This FutureFit Project is a supplemental project-based lesson covering the 5 senses, human anatomy, and brain function. It is designed to reinforce core science subject material while also incorporating social-emotional learning and 21st Century skills and concepts. | Grades 4, 5, 6 | |
Sensory writing from an object's perspective: If I were a pair of flip flops This creative writing assignment challenges students to write from the perspective of an inanimate object. They will use their imagination and their five senses to write a paragraph describing the first day of summer vacation from the perspective of their best friend's flip flops. This is a fun end-of-year writing activity or summer writing prompt. | Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, | |
Our senses & the environment Students will explore how our senses respond to information from the environment. Students will see that our brain plays a major role in helping our senses to function (respond). By examining the human reaction to light and various smells (stimuli), students will see that their senses are responding to information presented by the environment. | Grades 5, 6 | |
Sorting our senses Use a lesson that is intended to help students understand that the brain has many parts and that each part plays a significant role in how we function. The lesson focuses on how the four lobes of the cerebrum work with our senses so that we are able to function. | Grades 5, 6 | |
Communication: Our senses and our brain Use a lesson that uses the example of the human eye to explain how our sense organs are connected to the brain. Students will create and utilize an eye model to see how the eye is connected to the brain. | Grades 5, 6 | |
What are sense organs? Enrich your study of the five senses with this science printable. Students will complete statements about organs in the human body that receive and process stimuli. Then, they will match each sense organ – eyes, ears, tongue, nose, or skin – to the activity with which it is associated. | Grades 6, 7, 8 |
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