Naturally Sense-sational
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Pre-site Activities/Teacher led
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Content
Area: Science
Time to Complete: 1 class
Title of Lesson: Naturally Sense-sational
South Carolina State Standards
Addressed:
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K-1.1
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Identify observed
objects or events by
using the senses. |
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K-1.3 |
Identify the distinct
structures in the human
body that are for
walking, holding,
touching, seeing,
smelling, hearing,
talking, and tasting. |
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K-3.2 |
Identify the functions
of the sensory organs
(including the eyes,
nose, ears, tongue, and
skin). |
Focus Question For Students:
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1. |
What are your five senses? |
Culminating Assessment:
See post-site activities.
Material/Equipment/Resources:
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Sharing Nature With Children by Joseph Cornell, 1979. ISBN
0-916124-14-2 |
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Trails, Tails, Tidepools in Pails by Docents of The Children's
Nature Institute, 1999. ISBN 0-9632753-7-2 |
Procedures:
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1. |
Practice using descriptive
words.
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Make a list of favorite
descriptive words. |
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Can your students use
different words to
describe the same
object? Make a
game of it. |
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Have your students form
a circle. |
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Pass an object (a pine
cone, rock, etc.) around
the circle. |
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Each student must use a
different word to
describe the object.
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If the same
descriptive words is used, that
student must do something silly,
like turn around three times
repeating, “Special spatial
spatulas!" |
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2. |
Be an
artist!
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Draw a picture of
something that feels
soft. |
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Draw a picture of
something that sounds
loud. |
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Draw a picture of
something that tastes
sweet/sour. |
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Draw a picture of
something that smells
yummy. |
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Draw something using your
favorite color. |
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