A Sense of Taste is an AAC-friendly core word science experiment designed to help students explore the sense of taste, predict how different foods will taste, describe foods, and share opinions about what they like and do not like. Students taste simple foods such as lemon, cheese, pretzel, olive, and chocolate while practicing repeated core word language and predictable sentence frames such as “I can taste…” and “The ___ tastes ___.” This hands-on science activity supports communication, participation, vocabulary development, sensory exploration, prediction, describing, comparing, discussion, and student response. Students learn that we use our tongue to taste food and drink, then answer picture-supported questions about foods that taste sweet, salty, and sour. This resource is designed for special education classrooms, AAC users, early learners, speech therapy groups, and students who benefit from visual supports, repeated language, and hands-on learning. Core word targets include:
I, can, like, not, want, more, go, stop, good, what, same, different Science and taste vocabulary includes:
taste, tongue, food, drink, lemon, cheese, pretzel, olive, chocolate, sweet, sour, salty, favorite, predict, conclusion, describe What’s included: Visual experiment book
Sense of taste science activity
Supply list with picture supports
Repeated AAC/core word language
Food tasting pages with predictable sentence frames
Core word targets on activity pages
Taste description prompts for sweet, salty, and sour
Picture-supported conclusion and discussion questions
Student communication board with core words and activity-specific vocabulary
Start Up Steps for Teachers
ELA & AAC in Science standards-alignment guidance This activity supports communication, science observation, sensory exploration, sequencing, vocabulary development, opinion sharing, and ELA connections. Students can participate using speech, gestures, pointing, AAC devices, partner-assisted scanning, or the included communication board. Perfect for five senses units, taste lessons, food themes, AAC groups, speech therapy, preschool science, kindergarten science, special education science activities, and hands-on lessons for early learners.
