- Anchors Away!
- A Rocky Test
- As Far As I Can Sea
- Bounce
- By All Indications
- Create a Crater
- The Great Diamond Heist
- Fossil Puzzler
- Get Cooking
- Going with the Flow
- How's the Weather?
- Impact!
- It's All Relative
- Keep It Up
- Layers of Earth
- Let's Get Carried Away!
- Look Out Below!
- Motion In The Ocean
- Play Ball
- Sand Shake
- School of Rock
- Shaky Ground
- Smoke on the Water
- Solar System Scale
- Splendid Soil
- Super Soaked Soil
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Warm Colors
- Watching Weather
- Water Cycle
- Weathering Cubes
- What Lies Beneath?
- What Am I?
- Will There Be Enough
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Hands-on Activity
Use Your Senses
Summary
Students will identify that the human brain uses many sources of information to understand and
react to the surroundings.
Overview
Topic: The Senses
Real World Science Topics:
Real World Science Topics:
- An exploration of how the human body uses multiple sources of information to make decisions
- An exploration of the sensitivity of different areas to touch
- An exploration of the sense of smell
- An exploration of the ability of the brain to judge the source of a sound based on which ear the sound gets to first
Objective
In this activity, students will explore their senses by performing a variety of activities.
Activity Difficulty Rating: 2 Each hands-on science activity has been ranked based on difficulty of set up and how difficult they are to perform. The rating scale is from 1 to 5, with 1 being the easiest and 5 being the most complicated.
5-MINUTE REFRESHER
TAKE FIVE
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