Early level 0-12a
Early level - I can identify my senses and use them to explore the world around me. SCN 0-12a
Learning intentions and success criteria
Learning intentions: • Name my five senses and name something that one can see, touch, hear, smell and taste around oneself.
Success criteria: • I can name my five senses. • I can name something I can see around me. • I can name something I can touch around me. • I can name something I can hear around me. • I can name something I can smell around me. • I can name something I can taste around me.
Lesson plan
Countryside ranger led activities 1. Play ‘Listening Stones’. Walk into an area where there are various noises from different directions. Give each child a stone and provide a reason why theirs is special. The children have to close their eyes, hold the stones and listen for a minute. Then ask the children what they heard and to point in the direction that the sound came from. Time: 15mins.
2. Give each child or group of children an artist’s pallet with several colours on it. As they walk around they have to pick things that match the colours. This can be adapted for different times of the year e.g. oranges and yellows in autumn. Alternatively, if they cannot pick something up ask the children to point to the matching colours instead e.g. the blue sky or yellow sunshine. Make sure to point out jaggy things to avoid and litter! Time: 15mins.
3. As part of a walk choose different plants along the way and ask the children to smell them. Ask what they smell like. If in season use wild garlic, mint, herb robert and meadow sweet. Time: 15mins.
4. Ask the children to find something rough and smooth; soft and hard; bright and dull. Give the children either a scavenger hunt sheet or just shout out one thing at a time and get them to come back with it. Talk about what they find and get them to feel what the rest of the group has found. Make sure to point out jaggy things to avoid and litter! Time: 15mins.
Suggested follow-up activities
1. When you get back to the classroom ask the children to say one word about their trip to the country park relating to each sense: I saw………, I heard………., I felt…….., etc.
2. Collect natural items from your school grounds or locally and make a collage. Discuss with your group the different textures of items collected.
3. The children have to mimic the sounds of nature, either by copying you, remembering sounds from their trip or by listening if the activity is done in your school grounds.
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