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The Jelly Bean Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore how their sense of smell affects their taste buds. Learners taste different flavored jelly beans while holding their nose.

Brain Box (Bag) of Science
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In this neuroscience activity (5th activity on the page), learners explore their sense of touch without using their senses of vision and hearing.

How Sweet It Is
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In this activity (4th activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to rate and arrange containers filled with different dilutions of a scent (like cologne or fruit juice) in order from wea

Radar Mapping: What's in the Box?
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In this activity, learners mimic remote sensing. Learners use a stick to measure the distance to a "planet surface" they cannot see, and create their own map of the landscape.

Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes...and Hands, Fingers and Back
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Are fingers the only place on the body where we use our sense of touch? In this activity (6th activity on the page), learners test the touch sensitivity of different parts of the body.

Horton Senses Something Small
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In this story time program, young learners listen to the Dr.

The Senses of "Unknown Creatures"
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In this activity, learners use earthworms as "unknown creatures" from the South American jungle to find out how animals use senses.

Our Beautiful World
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In this Bob the Builder(TM)-themed activity, learners go on a nature walk outside and describe what they observe using their senses.

Envirolopes
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In this outdoor activity and observation game, learners hunt for a variety of textures, colors, odors and evidence of organisms in the activity site.

Echolocation Lab
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In this lab, learners experience how dolphins and other echolocating animals use their senses to locate and identify objects without using their sense of sight.

Expose Your Nose
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In this simple exploratory activity (1st activity on the page), blindfolded learners try to identify mystery items by smell.

Sand Paper Rankings
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In this activity (2nd activity on the page), learners explore the sensitivity of their sense of touch.

Give or Take?
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In this outdoor activity, learners work in pairs using their senses—especially touch—to learn more about individual trees.

Sock It To Me!
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In this activity (7th activity on the page), learners use their sense of touch to identify mystery objects hidden in socks.

Passion for Pixels
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In this technology activity, learners explore digital imaging and pixels. Learners "transmit" an image to a partner by creating an image on grid paper.

Our Chemical Senses: Olfaction
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In this activity, learners investigate the olfactory system by conducting several experiments.

Auditory Acuity
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This activity (8th activity on the page) tests learners' ability to identify things using only the sense of hearing.

It's Natural
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This activity introduces learners to Native Americans as people who depended upon nature in the past and continue to emphasize the importance of nature in the present.

Explore Like a Scientist: Fruity Observations
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In this activity, learners use their senses to collect information about a fruit and record their findings in a Science Journal.

Make a Comet Model and Eat It!
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In this activity, learners build models of comets, using edible materials, to learn about comets' structure.