Close your eyes for a moment. What can you still notice around you?
Today we investigate like scientists: we use one sense at a time and write careful observations in science words.
Scientists notice the world with their senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting. A sense is a way your body notices the world.
Which body part helps each sense: eyes, ears, hands, nose or tongue?
Look at the child on the board. Five senses are waiting to be placed: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
One at a time, come up and drag a sense onto the part of the body that does it. Everyone else says if they agree, and why.
Senses and body parts
In your group you have three things: a feely-bag, a sound jar and a smell pot.
- Use the feely-bag with hands only. No peeking. Say science words for how it feels.
- Shake the sound jar. Say science words for the sound (quiet rattle, soft thud, sharp click). Still no peeking.
- Smell the pot carefully from a short distance. Say if the smell is strong or gentle, and give one science word for it.
As you go, jot one science word for each item on your Investigation Journal page so you do not forget. Work through all three at your table. Take turns so everyone gets a go.
On your Investigation Journal page, finish your science words for each thing in our kit: what you felt, what you heard and what you smelled. For example: cold, hard, round.
- Then write what you think is in each one.
- Circle the sense that gave you the best clue, and write why.
- Draw what you think is hiding in the feely-bag.
No peeking yet! We will find out soon.
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