Monday:

• Students will be broken into groups and given an introduction to the five senses.
• Items will be placed in front of students for them to experiment.
• Students are to play the role of “detective” and gather clues to how the five senses relate to the world around them.
• Taste will be the first sense that students will encounter.
• Items such as sugar, salt, lemons etc. will be placed in front of students to begin their detective work.
• Students will draw a picture of what they experienced with taste.

Tuesday:

• Students Return to their groups.
• Students will learn about Touch today.
• Sandpaper, cotton balls, a bean bag, ice, a rock and sand will be placed in front of them.
• Students are to feel each object and discuss their experience with other students.
• Then they are to draw a picture what they learned from the experience.

Wednesday:

• Groups will meet at their assigned table.
• Both smell and sight will be covered today.
• Licorice, a flower, and an orange will be placed on the table to experience with smell.
• Watercolors, a stuffed animal, and a bowl will be placed on the table to study sight.
• Students are to discuss what parts of their bodies they use with both of these senses.
• Each student is to write 3 words describing their experience with sense.

Thursday:

·        Groups will again meet at their assigned table.

·        Hearing will be the final sense covered today.

·        Each table will have a bell, wind chime, drumstick, a container full of water, and a coffee can with rice.

·        Students are to discuss what body part is used with hearing and how they use this sense everyday.

·        Students are to go to the following link and click on “ My senses” http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.cfm?DocID=100

Friday:

• Class will have a large group discussion about what they have learned about how their senses relate to their experience with their environment.
• As a class we will visit http://www.arches.uga.edu/~andrea1/senses.htm .
• Each student will make a poster representing the sense of their choice. Each poster should contain three items that relate to their sense. On the bottom of the poster they are to write a sentence about their sense.
• This project is to be completed by the end of class and each student will share their poster with their table and discuss what they learned.