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Date
Subject/Grade
Level
Grade 1 Science
Time
Duration
1 hour
Unit
Senses
Teacher
Gabi Dumestre
Use the senses to make general and specific observations, and communicate observations
orally and by producing captioned pictures.
Students will identify each of the senses, and explain how we use our senses in
interpreting the world.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will
1. Learn the five senses (poem)
2. Correctly match objects to their senses (smart board activity)
3. Create a five senses mask
4. Fill out my itsy bitsy five senses book (if they have time)
ASSESSMENTS
Observations:
Key Questions:
Products/Performance
s:
PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Write the poem on a big piece of white paper and hang it on the board
Load smart board activity
Print off 15 five-senses masks
Print off 18 copies of My Itsy Bitsy Five Senses Book
Introduction (10 minutes)
Time
Read Five Senses poem together as a class at the carpet
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Assessment of Prior
Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and
Behaviour
Asking the students who knows what the 5 senses are, before reading
the poem
Students stay seated on the carpet and raise their hand to answer
questions
1-1:10
Transition to Body
Learning Activity #1
Say: I think you all know your 5 senses pretty well Next were going
to play a game on the smart board about senses! Send everyone
back to his or her desks.
Body (20 minutes)
Smart board activity
Time
Say: Im going to call on you one by one, for you to come up to the
smart board and drag the object on the left hand side of the screen to
the picture of its corresponding sense, on the right hand side of the
screen (ex. Ice cream cone to tongue, flowers to nose, music notes to
ear). You also need to explain why youre dragging the picture to the
ear, tongue, nose, mouth, or hand. Is the object something that you
would taste, hear, smell, touch, or feel?
Call on the students one by one (pick a student to start and then circle
around in order). There are 18 objects to be dragged, one for each
student. Allow students to pick whichever object they would like to
drag.
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation
1:10-1:25
Learning Activity #2
Teacher Notes:
Assessments/
Differentiation
Learning Activity # 3
Consolidation of
Learning:
1:25-1:55
Closure (5 minutes)
Gather the students back at the carpet with their finished masks. Ask
them to point out the parts of their mask that are associated with the
1:45-1:55
Time
1:55-2:00
five senses (the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, and the skin).
Feedback From
Students:
Feedback To Students
Judge whether all the students have understood the five senses by
their response during the consolidation of learning.
Verbally congratulate them on their finished mask products.