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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.

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

Smell Match
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In this matching activity (3rd activity on the page), learners use their sense of smell to match pairs of opaque containers filled with various smelly items like orange peel, roses, or moth balls.

Your Sense of Taste: Discover the real taste of candy
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Your tongue can sense about 6 different flavors (salty, sweet, bitter, sour, umami/savory, and fat), but your nose provides a lot more "taste" information than you realize when you eat.

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

Edible/Inedible
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In this activity about olfaction (9th activity on the page), learners smell 10 different items with different odors, including some edible food items.

Smell Detective
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In this activity about olfaction (8th activity on the page), learners smell 10 different items with different odors. Then they try to identify the smells when they are mixed together.

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.

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.

Make Your Own Perfume
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In this activity about olfaction (7th activity on the page), learners use natural ingredients to concoct their own perfume.

Exploring Size: Scented Balloons
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In this activity, learners use their sense of smell to explore the world on the nanoscale.

Smelly Balloons
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Are balloons porous or non-porous? In this activity, learners watch an entertaining Mr. O video and conduct a simple experiment to find out.

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.

Find Your Pack
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This activity introduces learners to wolf behavior and communication.

Shark Sense of Smell
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This is an activity about our sense of smell and how it compares to sharks' super noses. Learners will create varying solutions of water and perfume.

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

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.

Common Scents
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Learners use a mortar and pestle to extract clove oil from cloves using denatured alcohol. They put this oil on paper, which they can take home.

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.

Cloud Fun
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Learners complete a series of hands-on and investigative activities to explore cumulus clouds.