Good Sense

Outdoor Sensory Activities

Good Sense Book pdf

We hope that the activities contained in this booklet will help you discover and explore the limitless possibilities available through using your senses to see and discover them.

-Paul Oberg, former CEO, Jeffers Foundation

Sit Spots Video

Sit Spot Activity

Good Sense Book pdf

“… The last powerful thing that I left the workshop with was the power of our senses.

I could not believe how many things I overlooked when I didn’t really engage all my senses.

The various activities that we did helped me to stop and really observe closely using my senses.

When I engaged my senses I could notice how much detail there was.

This is a process that I have to teach students…” – Kelsey, workshop participant

Good Sense Book

Front Cover Outside

Front Cover Inside

Foreword

What Teachers Say

Research

Learning Standards

Getting Started

Tools of the Trade

Magnifier Use

Back Cover Inside

Back Cover Outside

Sense of Sight - Look and See

Can You Find the Pencil?

Can You Find the Changes?

Pay Attention with a Penny

A Color Match

Alike and Different

Themed Hike - Go Looking Under

Eye Spy

Sense of Hearing - Listen Up

Footsteps

Deer Ears!

Shake it Up...Listen and List

Sense of Hearing - Listen Up

Make a Sound Map

One Finger at a Time!

Never Eat Soggy Waffles!

Sense of Touch - Feeling Your Way

Touching Twigs

Feeling With Your Feet - The Millipede Walk

A Touch of Sunlight

Sense of Smell - Sniffing Around

Being a Bloodhound

Finding a Scent Match

Sense of Taste - Yum and Yuk

How We Taste

Putting it All Together

Qualitative and Quantitative Observations

Compare and Contrast

Sensory Isolation

Observing the Invisible: Wind

Sensory Search

Sit Spot

The Sixth and Seventh Senses