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By Barb

Hi,

I did a mini unit on the senses not too long ago..here's a few of the ideas I used/found (my students are younger than yours so...not sure if these would help...but may give you some ideas to build upon...:

Taste
test different foods..salty, sweet, sour, hot, cold, crunchy, mushy, etc...
We colored pictures of different things and then matched them to what senses we use to identify them...i.e. perfume (smell), flower (sight, smell) fur (touch), etc....
we made a texture collage for touch...soft, hard, smooth, rough, etc.
you can use extracts (vanilla, peppermint, etc) and coat cotton balls

in them..then put the cotton balls in a film canister of some small container and have students sniff them and try to identify/match the smells.

paint with textured paint...put in oatmeal, sand, etc in it.

hopefully some of this helps give you ideas