Animal Senses Informational Text and Activity {Covers NGSS 4-LS1-2}

Engaging informational text about animals’ amazing senses! Students begin by sketching each of the five senses and how humans use these senses to survive. Next, students read an informational text before identifying a familiar animal with an amazing sense or senses. Next, answer comprehension questions and complete a model drawing of echolocation paths from a bat to different objects in nature. Students also have some fun by matching animal senses to the animal.

Students then draw a map using only their memory of a path they are familiar with using as many details as possible before coloring the map in. The path could be from school to home, to a nearby relative’s house or from one room to another room in their house. Students then explain their path and the senses that have helped them remember their path! Great to hang in your classroom or hallway to show student engagement.

Finally, students take a quick check quiz about animal senses!

This resource is part of the unit- STEM From Nature.

Aligned with NGSS and CCCS standards!

NGSS 4-LS1-2 –

Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.