Close your eyes for a moment. What can you still notice about this room?
Today we will use five different ways our bodies find things out. What do you already use without thinking?
Those things you still noticed with your eyes shut? That was your body finding things out. Here are the five ways we name them. We will meet one at a time.
After each sense, point to the body part and say the sense name with me.
- Sight: finding out with our eyes
- Hearing: finding out with our ears
- Smell: finding out with our nose
- Touch: finding out with our hands and skin
- Taste: finding out with our tongue
Look at the child on the board. Five labels are waiting: eyes, ears, nose, hands and tongue.
For each sense, point to the part of your body that does it. Then one of you can come up and drag that label onto the child.
Body parts for our senses
We will try five kits, one at a time, and each one comes along your row. Each kit is a small mystery, and we solve it with only one sense.
- ✋ Touch, with our hands and skin: feel inside the bag. No peeking! What can you feel? What do you think is in there?
- 👂 Hearing, with our ears: shake the jar gently. What do you hear? What do you think is inside?
- 👃 Smell, with our nose: take one small sniff of the pot. What does it smell like? What do you think it is?
- 👁 Sight, with our eyes: look through the magnifier. What tiny thing can you see now that you could not see before?
- 👅 Taste, with our tongue: take a small bite of your fruit. Is it sweet or sour?
Use only the sense we are on. If it is not your turn, watch quietly. After each kit, we say the sense, the body part, and what our sense told us.
After the bag, the jar and the pot, we find out what was hidden. Were you right?
On your Investigation Journal page, choose one sense you used today.
Use this stem: I used ___. My ___ helped me. I found out ___.
Write or draw the sense, the body part, and one thing that sense found out. One example only.
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