• Grouping objects according to color, shape, size, sound, taste, smell, texture, and temperature

Using Your 5 Senses
Students will name the five senses, use one of the five senses to discover properties of objects in the environment, and name a body part used for each sense

Classifying the Five Senses
The students will sort the picture cards to gain an understanding of the five senses and classifying.

Classify
Students will practice classifying objects according to physical structure and characteristics.

Five Senses and Four Seasons Quilt
Students will help make a Five Senses and Four Seasons quilt and cinquain poem.

My Senses Tell Me…
In this lesson, students learn about their five senses.

Classifying the Five Senses
In this lesson students are given index cards labeled with the five senses and picture cards with pictures that represent the five senses. The students will sort the picture cards to gain an understanding of the five senses and classifying.

Five Senses Lesson
In this lesson students have a chance to put themselves in the place of blind people, and see how they manage without the sense of sight. The students will also review all of the senses and the parts of the body that go with each sense.

Learning About the Five Senses Using the Body Cube
Students will learn about the five senses by playing a game with the Body Cube.

Your Five Senses
Students discover the use of all their five senses and learn about the nervous system.

Using Our Senses
This lesson explores the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. It provides an opportunity for students to meet a doctor who will show them how the senses are used when examining patients. The lesson introduces Dr. Virginia Apgar and the use of the Apgar Score in examining newborn babies.
 

Sesame Street Sorting Students can visit Sesame Street and classify items.

The Five Senses List of lessons and activities using the senses

5 Senses A list of various lessons using the five senses

The Five Senses List of links to resources for informational sites; online and offline activities

Science Clips Online interactive science games and quizzes for K-5

I Know that  Students can link to engaging science resources (similar to BrainPop.com in which some activities are offered free)

Science Online A must see! Great site for links to Blueprint Skills, Lesson Plans, Topical Sites, Interactive Websites for Students and Worksheets

Our Five Senses This website offers activities for each of the five senses. Books associated with each sense are listed.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Work with peers to sort by shape, color, texture and sound. Cut and paste visuals in appropriate categories for properties.
E/B: Point to crunchy foods, sweet foods, smelly foods, sour foods from visuals.
E/B: Make "pizza" with unusual ingredients which are crunchy, smooth, sweet or sour.
E/B: Point to something they can (i.e. taste).
D: Ask students, "Do you (taste) or (hear) (someone clapping)?"
D: Cut pictures from magazines to represent properties.
D: Blindfold and distinguish among different food to identify by smell, taste, touch, and sound.
D: Graph pictures by smell, taste, color, sound and texture.
E: Tell students, "Tell me something you can (hear). Do you like how it (sounds)?"
E: Develop a menu/meal of crunchy foods, sweet foods, smelly foods, sour foods from visuals.
E: Talk about representative items from each sense category.
E: Compare/contrast food items from home.
E/B, D, E: Take students on a "Three Senses Walk", asking them to pay close attention to everything they see, hear, and smell. Later, help students to record what they saw, heard, and smelled on a class chart using labels, captions, and simple drawings.
 

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