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

In this activity, learners investigate the sense of hearing and plan and conduct their own experiments.

In this activity, young learners go on a walk with caregivers and use their senses to observe nature with the help of scavenger hunt sheet.

In this neuroscience activity (4th activity on the page), learners make their own set of Von Frey hairs to test detection thresholds.

In this activity (last activity on the page), learners make a model of the eardrum (also called the "tympanic membrane") and see how sound travels through the air.

In this activity, learners investigate the touch sensory system and discover how to plan and carry out their own experiments.

This activity (9th activity on the page) about hearing demonstrates to learners the importance of having two ears.

In this activity, learners examine their tongue and taste buds.

In this activity, learners follow a recipe to create play dough scented with fruit-flavored drink mix.

In this activity (2nd activity on the page), learners explore how the nose is responsible for part of the flavor we taste in food.

In this activity (4th activity on the page), learners test to see if saliva is necessary for food to have taste.

In this wintertime outdoor activity, learners role play wolves tracking their prey by following scented trails.

In this outdoor game, learners role play predator and prey to explore the importance of keen hearing and silent stalking skills in the animal world.

In this activity, learners work in teams to study the observation skills essential to scientific research.

This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to learn to differentiate between qualitative and quantitative observations and to practice data collection.

In this activity (1st activity on the page), learners explore their sense of taste and the structure of the tongue by taste-testing various foods.

In this activity (9th activity on the page), learners work in pairs to see how their perception of touch differs from reality.

In this activity (11th activity on the page), learners use pennies to test their hearing acuity.

In this activity (on pages 24-34), learners explore the four-part stomach of cows (and other grazing animals called ruminants), and compare it to the human one-part stomach and its digestive process.

In this activity (3rd on the page), learners investigate circadian rhythms by examining how well people do with estimating time.