Beginner
30 mins
Teacher/Student led
+70 XP
Teacher-led from the board — pupils need no device

Our Wonderful Senses

Learn about the five senses and match them to body parts such as eyes for seeing and nose for smelling. Explore objects using each sense in turn and draw what one sense discovered.

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    1 - Getting Started ~2 mins

    Illustration for Getting StartedClose your eyes for a moment. What can you still hear? What can you still feel?

    Our bodies have special ways of finding things out. Today we will meet five of them, one at a time.

    2 - Our Five Senses ~2 mins

    Illustration for Our five sensesOur bodies find out about the world in special ways.

    Which body part do you think we use to smell?

    3 - Point to the Parts ~3 mins

    Look at the child on the board. We will place one body part at a time for each sense. When we name a sense, point to that part on the board figure, then point to the same part on your own body.

    Sense body parts

    4 - Exploring One Sense at a Time ~11 mins

    We will meet one sense at a time on the carpet. A few friends will try each kit while we all watch, listen and say what we notice together.

    5 - What Did We Notice? ~2 mins

    Turn to the friend beside you on the carpet.

    Think back to when the feely-bag and the fruit went round. Tell your partner one thing you noticed with a sense today.

    Pupil practice · Investigation Journal
    Module 1 · Living Things: Me, My Body, My Senses and Nature Outdoors
    Lesson 5 · Our Wonderful Senses
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