The Five Senses 

This is a page of Links for Kindergarten teachers a students about the five senses.

Links for Teachers

1)      The Five Senses-http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/5senses.html

 This website was created by Jerrie S. Cheek. She is affiliated with the Educational Technology Center in Kennesaw, GA. This is an educational website to help teachers find lessons about the five senses. It gives many websites that have lessons. It is a non-biased website created just to help teachers find lesson plans to teach about the five senses. It was last updated August 2, 2005 so it is accurate and has all the correct websites up to date. It has an easy to follow layout that describes each website. It seems like a very useful website for teachers to use to find fun and educational lessons about the five senses.

2)      Ten Activities for Teaching the Five Senses- http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson183.shtml

 This website is created by Cara Bafile. She is affiliated with Education World ®. This is a non-biased website designed to help teachers teach the five senses to children. It lists several different activities that the teachers can do with the children to help them understand and appreciate their five senses. It also has links to other websites for lesson plans and teaching ideas. It was last updated May 22, 2000. Even though it is an older website it has up to date, great ideas to teach children about their senses.  Its layout is easy to understand and I’m sure that this website is very helpful in aiding teachers in making lesson plans for the five senses.

3)      The Five Senses- http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/5senses.htm

 This website was created by Gale Jacobs. She is affiliated with Gayle’s Preschool Rainbow. It was last updated in 2005.It is accurate and up to date on lots of good ideas.  This is a non-biased website created by Gale to give teachers ideas about how to teach the five senses to preschool children. You can scroll through this website and get great ideas for teaching this lesson. It is an easy design to follow. It suggests fun ways to teach like using arts and crafts and singing songs. These lessons give the children hands on learning that will be fun for the children.

4)      Teaching Children about the Five Senses http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/nibbles/succeed-senses.html

    This website is created by Lisa McMurtry. She is the Extension Educator at the University of Illinois. Since she is in charge of a branch of the Education Program at the University of Illinois, she is well qualified in advising teachers in what to teach and how to teach it. She gives several good ideas about teaching young children the basic about their five senses. This website it created specifically for the instruction of smaller children because the material covered is simple, basic things that smaller children need to know in order to further their education later on. It does not say when the last time this website was updated but the material covered seems to be current. This is a non-biased website created to help teachers and parents start their young child’s education about their five senses.

5)      The Five Senses Activities-http://www.childfun.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=125

      This website is created by Francisco Burz. He is affiliated with Childfun, Inc. This website is created for teachers to give them fun and educational activities to use while teaching the Five Senses lesson. It was last updated in 2004, so the information used in this website is very current and accurate. It has ideas about songs to sing, crafts to make, fun food, and games and activities for the teachers to use to help the children better understand the lesson. It is a non-biased website that was created just to give teachers ideas and tips about fun activities to use. This website gives suggestions for fun ways to learn.

Links for Students

1)      The Senses- http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chsense.htm

        This web page was designed by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D. He is an accredited source so it is safe to say that the information on this webpage is accurate. Eric Chudler is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. This site was supported by a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources.  Several Science teachers have contributed material to help create this site. This site is not biased, it is just an informational website designed to help educate children. This website was last updated September 10^th 2005. It is up to date and very accurate to today’s understanding of the five senses. This website’s design is very easy to understand because it has pictures to help navigate the pages. Its layout is simple but fun. It has many links to other sites about the senses.

2)      The Five Senses-http://www.valdosta.edu/~cowalker/topic.html

        This website was designed by Courtney Walker. She is a junior at Valdosta State Universtiy. She created this site for Mrs. Godfrey's Pre-K class at Hallmark Heights Head Start. This is an educational website designed to help Pre-k children understand about the five senses. It is not biased because it is not directed to persuade the audience. It does not say when the last time it was updated. However, the information and technology used to create this site seems very up to date and accurate. This site is very easy to understand and it would be simple for young children to use. It is very creative and colorful. It has links to many other sites that may also help teach children about the five senses.

3)      Five Senses- http://hes.ucf.k12.pa.us/gclaypo/senses/taste.html 

This website is created by Hillendale Elementary School. It is a website created for educational purposes for the students to use.  It was last updated September 13^th of this year. It is very up to date and accurate. The layout for this website is easy for the children to use. This website is a fun way for the children to learn about their five senses. This website has links to the other senses. It is not a biased website that is trying to persuade the children one way or another. It is simply a fun and easy way for the children to learn about their five senses on the internet. 

4)      Noses and other things that smell  http://www.andrewlost.com/sense_of_smell_k1.htm 

This website is a website designed just for the sense of smell. This website is created by Judith Greenburg. She writes all of the Andrew Lost books. She created this website as an educational website for children. She is a writer, so she put all of her books on this website. She uses each of her books to help teach children about different things. On this website the sense of smell is being taught. It doesn’t seem to have a biased opinion on the subject. It is a fun, and educational website for children to use to learn about the sense of smell. It is a very creative and colorful website with lots of pictures. It seems like it would be fun for a child to learn from this website because there is so much that you can do on this website to learn about the sense of smell. It doesn’t say the last time it was updated but it seems to be very accurate.

5)      Ms. Rose's Website- http://scott.k12.va.us/bbarnette/ 

This website was created by Bridgett Rose. She is a teacher at Shoemaker Elementary School. She created this website specifically to teach the five senses. It does not say the last time it was updated but it seems accurate and up to date. It is a fun interactive website that helps the children learn about their senses. This website has a link to an online matching quiz about your senses. It is a great website for younger children because it uses pictures to help teach about each sense. It is non biased because it is created just to teach the children. It is not trying to persuade the children one way or another. It is simply an informative fun website. It is easily accessed because like I said it uses pictures to direct the website. 

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