Using your senses to learn. Color models and tests of touch, listening and smell.
Click on these links for lessons that my students found irresistible! Students use their senses to observe, distinguish and categorize.
Overhead color amazement! You will only need food color drops, two transparency pages and an overhead projector for a spectacular color show that gets kids to predict and write creatively.
Coffee Filter Color. Use coffee filters and writing to extend color predictions and make a colorful project page.
Oil and water suspension. This is a highly colorful and interesting model of suspension. A special classroom centers manipulative
A listening test. Use three or four bells to show students what they can do when they concentrate and listen.
A test of smell. Use the senses to describe and distinguish characteristics. This lesson is really fun! Group decision activity.
A test of touch. Students stretch their vocabulary to describe how they can distinguish different items by touch alone. Group decision activity.
Use sight, smell and touch to tell the difference between sugar and salt.
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