Students explore the five senses and learn they all do the same job — gathering information and sending it to the brain, which makes sense of it and tells the body how to respond.
Students will be able to…
You see, hear, smell, taste, and feel all day long. How does that information get from the world into your body — and who’s in charge of it all?
Project this and tap each sense. Have students record what it senses and how it sends information to the brain.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
Close your eyes — what can you still sense?
Students investigate the explorer.
Teacher explains.
Show senses working together.
Three quick checks.
Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core literacy. State-standard crosswalks available on request.
Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process it in the brain, and respond in different ways.
Construct an argument that animals have internal and external structures that support survival.
Interpret information presented visually and explain how it contributes to understanding.
Write informative/explanatory texts to convey ideas clearly.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Set up five stations (something to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch) and have students record which sense and organ each uses, and how the brain responds. A printable station log is in the Science library.
Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.
A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.