Introduction
Who knows what candy taste like? How it smells? What it looks like?
Today we will discuss you the five senses of the human body.
Taste
Smell
Hear
Feel
Sight
Task
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about the five senses while also integrating other content areas, such as language arts, social studies, and math.
The lesson will satisfy the Tennessee state science curriculum standards for the five senses, as well as other content area standards, which are listed in the next section (Standards).
This unit will also give students an authentic, real-life, and hands-on experience with the subject matter.
Process
After listening to a book on the sense of taste, the students will participate in a food sampling activity and will create a chart that depicts the students’ favorite foods from the lesson’s food samples. The students must use sensory taste describing words. Also, the class must use the words less, more, and equal when analyzing the outcome of the taste chart.
- To teach students about the five senses
- Integrate content areas Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
- Language Objective of Identifying Vocabulary Words
- Students will understand the sense of taste and experience it by actually tasting real samples
- Chart tallying how may people liked the different samples
- Student will use taste describing words such as salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and exc…
- Lesson will give students an authentic, real-life, and hands-on experience with the subject matter.
After listening to a book on the sense of touch, the students will participate in a touch bag activity as a group and must identify the objects in the bag using the sense of touch by completing a worksheet with 6/8 accuracy. (Discussion and questions within the small groups is encouraged)
After listening to a book on the sense of hearing, the students will participate in a listening lotto game in which the students must listen for the sounds (which include sounds from our environment and the world) that match the pictures on the lotto/bingo card and mark them correctly on the card with 7/9 accuracy.
After listening to a book on the sense of sight, the students will participate in a nature walk. During the nature walk the students must make visual observations and then record their observations through a drawing when they return to the classroom. The drawings must contain objects that were viewed during the nature walk.
After listening to a book on the sense of smell, the students will participate in collage activity in which the students must categorize objects that smell good and bad after cutting them out of a worksheet, coloring them, and placing them in the correct column on a graphic organizer. The collages must be completed with 14/16 accuracy.
Evaluation
• The worksheet should be completed with 6/8 accuracy.
• Also, we will come back as a class and discuss our findings.
• Observations will be made to ensure that the students are communicating and working as a whole to problem solve.
Informal Assessment: Observed for participation
Formal Assessment: The students will be observed for participation during the nature walk. Students complete a drawing activity using relevant objects with their pictures.
Differentiated Groups: Identify/describe groups, number in each group, instructional objectives for each group
Modifications / Accommodations for exceptional, gifted and talented students: Identify each student-using Student A and Student B etc.… The lesson will accommodate to auditory and visual learners through the reading of the book and the illustrations within the book. Visual learners will benefit from the chart and tallying. The lesson will also accommodate tactile and kinesthetic learners though the sampling of food activity.
Accommodations/Modifications: Watch for food allergies and prepare students who have allergies alternate tasting samples.
Assessment: Discussion questions within small groups 6/8 accuracy
Game 7/9 accuracy
Activity 14/16 accuracy
Worksheet 6/8 accuracy