Close your eyes for a moment. What can you still notice around you?
Today we investigate like scientists: we use one sense at a time and write careful observations in science words.
Scientists notice the world with their senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting. A sense is a way your body notices the world.
Which body part helps each sense: eyes, ears, hands, nose or tongue?
Look at the child figure on the board. Five labels wait to be placed: eyes, ears, hands, nose and tongue.
Call out where each label belongs as we match sense to body part.
Senses and body parts
In your group you have three things: a feely-bag, a sound jar and a smell pot.
- Use the feely-bag with hands only. No peeking. Say science words for how it feels.
- Shake the sound jar. Say science words for the sound (quiet rattle, soft thud, sharp click). Still no peeking.
- Smell the pot carefully from a short distance. Say if the smell is strong or gentle, and give one science word for it.
As you go, jot one science word for each item on your Investigation Journal page so you do not forget. Work through all three at your table. Take turns so everyone gets a go.
On your Investigation Journal page, finish one careful observation for each sense you used.
Write the sense you used and the science words that describe what you noticed, for example cold, hard, round.
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