Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Smell

Learning Objectives:

  -Students will be able to name the five senses and names a body part used for each sense.

  Students will learn which scent is being used.

Specific Objectives

  SIGHT: the sense of sight helps us recognize each other and learn about colors, motions and distance

  HEARING: It helps us learn from each other through communication. Sound can produce patterns.

  SMELL: help us enjoy life and learn unsafe conditions.

  TOUCH: learn about our world by feeling it and learning the size, texture and shape of things.

  TASTE: Taste helps us among other things to select and enjoy food, four familiar tastes.

Essential Questions:

 What are our five senses?  What parts of our body do we use for our

senses?  Why are our senses so important?

Activities:

  The class will watch a video about the five senses. Students will learn the five senses.

  TOUCH-Draw a hand using different textured fabric or objects (felt, fur, sandpaper, buttons)

  SIGHT-Place 10 items on a tray, Show each one to the class, hide the tray and remove one object. See if students can remember which object is missing.

  HEARING-Have students to put their hand over their throat. Then have them whisper, talk yell, hum, etc. to feel the vibrations of their larynx.

  SMELL-Put different scented materials into containers with holes in the top. students can try to identify the scent.

  TASTE-Try tasting a sweet, sour, bitter, and salty food.

Teaching Strategies

 Direct Instruction: I will use direct instruction to ask question to see if the students understand the work, I will help them see the purpose and the result of the activities. I will provide students clear explanations and illustrations of the subject matter, and set goals.

TEKS

  §112.13. Science, Grade 2   (b)Knowledge and Skills

  (5) Matter and energy, the tudent knows that matter has physical properties and those properties determine how it is described, classified, changed and used.   (A) Classify matter by physical properties,

including shape, relative mass, temperature, texture, flexibility and whether material is solid or liquid.

  (B) Compare changes in materials caused by heating and cooling.

References

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWW5IaDCj1g

  http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112a.html

  http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/sites020.shtml