INTASC Principle 3
My Artifact:
My lesson plans include differentiated lessons available for students. Enrichment activities for some learners while for others it can be cutting down the amount for math problems or amount of words in an essay.
J. Rickelle Dennell Grade: 1
Unit Title: Crafts & Games in Education Lesson Topic: Making Sense out of Senses
Academic Content Standard(s): 3.2 Inquiry and Design; 3.2.4B Describe objects in the world using five senses. Recognizing observational descriptors from each of the five senses. Use observations to develop a descriptive vocabulary.
Interdisciplinary Connections: Language arts.
Objective: Students will be able to describe observations made with five senses and classify which observations below to which senses.
Methods & Application: Model & Application.
Resources: Paper bags, paper, pencils, object to place in bags, empty film canisters, cotton balls, scents, lifesavers/candy, salt, sugar, cheese, instruments, recorded sound CD, CD player.
Introduction: (10 minutes)
*Motivational Device- Hold up spoon, seeds, orange, etc., show children all
objects. Allow the children to pass around objects, to touch, look, smell,
listen look at them.
*Prior Knowledge-
Hold up object:
What is this?
Good! Now, how do you know that?
Give object to child who answers correctly.
What other reasons do we know that this is a(n) ___________?
Give another object to the child who answers correctly.
*Relevance to Learning- This will help students become aware how senses help
us identify the world around us.
*Objective- Students will be able to describe observations made with five
senses and classify which observations below to which senses.
Content: (10 minutes each sense)
Touch: Students will be given paper bags with an object in it, without looking at
the object they must use one-word descriptors to describe object to a
partner who is to guess the object. This will repeat several times with
different objects.
Sight: Students are to describe an object in the classroom (in visible sight) to their
partner until their partner can identify the object which the student is
describing.
Taste: Students are blind folded and given different food samples to eat/drink.
Students have to describe the object based on taste and texture to their
partner who is to guess the food item.
Sound: Students will listen to a series of sounds and record words that describe
each sound, then they are to relay the descriptors to their partner (who did
not hear the sounds) who must try to guess what the student hear. Picture
bank of photos may be used to facilitate the partner (i.e. bird for chirping,
drum for drum beat).
Smell: Students are given film canisters with scented cotton balls inside. Student
is to smell and describe the smell to the partner, the partner is to guess
what the scent is. This continues with three objects each.
During each phase of this activity, students are writing down the descriptor words. After all phases are completed, students use Thesaurus to look up synonyms for the words on their list. Students are to identify which words can be identified by multiple senses (you can taste and smell something sweet, you can see and feel something smooth).
Differentiated Learning Activities:
Enrichment activity identifying each object using all five senses, with at least 10 descriptors (two per sense).
Summary: (10 minutes)
Restate - Students will be able to identify and create lists of descriptor words for each of the five senses.
Have planned activity~ Show new objects not yet used in the games. How do these look? How do they look different, how do these look the same? Pass around two new objects. How does these feel? How do these smell? What sounds do these make? What do you think it would taste like?
Mention future activity~ Students will create a game which purpose is to review
the five senses and utilizing their new word banks.
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Missd@missdsclassroom.com
Last Updated:
1 May 2006