Sensational Senses

Explore how our five senses – taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing – help us to understand our world and solve problems around us.

The Big Idea: Our five senses – taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing – help us to understand our world and solve problems around us. Engaging our senses with hands-on experiences will provide a building block for future discoveries.

3 packages available, appropriate for Pre-K – 1


Package #1 – VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP VIDEO RENTAL ($150): You will have access to a playlist of videos for one week of instruction, and you can break up our instructional and educational videos however you please.

Video package includes:

  • Three recorded activities
    • Texture scavenger hunt and collage
    • Exploring items that are transparent, translucent, and opaque
    • Solve a mystery using your 5 senses
  • Three recorded informational videos
    • Observe sounds made in the Museum’s Ravinia Festival Music Makers exhibit
    • Describe smells found in the Museum’s Habitat Park herb garden.
    • Sort groceries in the Museum’s Whole Foods Market exhibit according to taste.
  • Two recorded story times
  • Activity instructions provided in English and Spanish to support learning at school and at home

Purchase Package 1: Videos Only


Package #2 – VIDEOS + ADD-ON KITS ($200): We’ll ship up to 30 individual kits of supplies to one location with materials needed for each of the recorded activities.
Purchase Package 2: Videos + Kits


Package #3 – VIDEOS + KITS + LIVE session ($250): Includes a 20-minute live presentation from a Museum educator with an activity exploring properties of light with shadow puppets.

Purchase Package 3: Videos + Kits + LIVE Session


Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards

1.E.ECe With teacher assistance, use adjectives to describe people, places and things.

7.A.ECa Compare, order and describe objects according to a single attribute.

11.A.ECf  Make meaning from experience and information by describing, talking and thinking about what happened during an investigation.

23.A Describe and explain the structure and functions of the human body and how they interrelate.

26.B.EC Use creative arts as an avenue for self-expression.

Common Core Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1  Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7  Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.10  Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Next Generation Science Standards

1-PS4-1  Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

1-PS4-3  Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

2-PS1-1  Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.


Questions? Call (847) 832-6923, or e-mail info@kcmgc.org

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Glenview, IL 60026
(847) 832-6600

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V.I.P. (Very Important Play) Sessions available for reservation. The Museum is currently not open for general admission.

The Museum is closed for these holidays:
New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day

All Museum coupons and passes expiring in 2020 or 2021 will be honored through 2022.

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