Senses

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General

Seeing, Hearing and Smelling - from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

Seeing, Hearing and Smelling - download a 65 page booklet in pdf, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/senses.pdf

The Sensory System - activities and information in a pdf file from Questacon
http://www.questacon.edu.au/html/assets/pdf/The_Sensory_System.pdf

Senses: How do we take in the world around us - movies and quizzes from BrainPop
http://www.brainpop.com/health/senses/

Five Senses - from Southwest Education Development Laboratory
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/senses/

Good Senses - a lesson plan from Discovery School.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/thebrain-perception/

The Incredible HUman Body: The Five Senses - a lesson plan from Discovery School.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/humanbody/

Ten Activities for Teaching the Five Senses - from Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson183.shtml

Preschool Five Senses Activity Theme - from Preschool Activity Themes
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/5senses.htm

Monster Fun - Learning the Five Senses - a lesson plan based on the bool Brave Little Monster
http://www.bravemonster.com/lessonplansenses.htm

Come to your Senses - a WebQuest with worksheets in pdf
http://www.hes.ucf.k12.pa.us/gclaypo/senses/

Come to Your Senses - a ThinkQuest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3750/?tqskip1=1

The Senses - from Neuroscience for Kids, University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chsense.html

My Body - includes ears, eyes, nose, tongue and skin, from Kids Health
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/

Primary Science Lessons - including Senses, from University of Queensland
http://www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/year1.html#SensesGL

Seeing

Sight and light - a lesson plan for Grade 6-8, from DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/seeingthelight/

The Joy of Visual Perception - an online book with chapters on illusions, perception, colour blindness and more
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/thejoy.htm

Light walk - from Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/light_walk/lw_main.html

Light walk Activity - from Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/light_walk/lw_todo.html

Glasses and Contact Lenses - from Kids Health
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/body/glasses.html

Hearing

Sound - from Bethune Academy, Grade 5
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/apr99/soundindex.html

The Ear - background information, lesson plan, experiment and quiz from Neuroscience for Kids, University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bigear.html

Auslan Signbank - Australian Sign Language, registration is free
http://www.auslan.org.au/

Auslan is a sign language - from Disability Online
http://www.disability.vic.gov.au/dsonline/dsarticles.nsf/pages/Auslan_is_a_sign_language?OpenDocument

Smelling

The Nose Knows - background information, lesson plan, experiment and quiz from Neuroscience for Kids, University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/nosek.html

Tasting

That's Tasty - background information, lesson plan, experiment and quiz from Neuroscience for Kids, University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tasty.html

Taste Zones - from Teachers Net
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/243.html

Title - Terrific Taste Buds using Jelly Bellies! - from Lesson Plans pages
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceTasteBudInvestigationUsingJellyBellies23.htm

Feeling

TOUCHING - from Franklin Institute Online
http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/me10/me10.html

The Feely box--An observation activity - a pdf file on how to make a Feely Box
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/7th/matter/acrobat/feelybox.pdf

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