Today's Classroom Activities :

Scents and Smells

Special Scents
Science/Health Provide a fun smell activity for students by placing a few drops of ammonia, lemon juice, chocolate syrup, etc. on paper towels. Place the paper towels in small brown paper bags so they cannot be seen. After the scents have been tested and identified, talk about how the sense of smell also keeps us safe. What would your students do if they smelled smoke?

Smell-ebrating Spring
Art/Writing/Drama Celebrate National Sense of Smell Day! Take the class outside and tell them to be nose-y. Bring a notebook to make a list of all the things they smell and draw some sketches. Back in the class, ask students to write poems about what they smelled. Have them write a play entitled, The Nose Knows with characters that are parts of the nose, such as the nostrils, nasal passages and inner hairs. Encourage students bring in mystery scents for their blindfolded classmates to guess.

Sense of Smell and The Nose
Students will use their sense of smell to help identify five different fruits and then draw a picture of the fruit. After that, students will create their own picture, then add spices for scent.

Have You Seen My Mother?
This lesson will introduce the sense of smell. It will show how an animal, such as a bat, finds its baby by using the sense of smell. Students will have the opportunity to view information on the Internet to learn more about bats. They will also participate in a hands-on activity to experience how a mother bats locates her baby.

Smell
Students will be able to distinguish between pleasurable and non pleasurable smells.

All's Well That Ends Smell
In this lesson, students learn about new technology in the field of sewage odor filtration. They then conduct a lab experiment to determine what filters work best to block the smells of everyday odorants.

Stereo Smell
A rose by any other name, still smells as sweet. However, as this Science Update reveals, our nose actually smells that rose two different ways.