First level 1-12b
First level - I have explored my senses and can discuss their reliability and limitations in responding to the environment. SCN 1-12b
Learning intentions and success criteria
Learning intentions: • Explore one’s senses and discuss their reliability and limitations in responding to the environment.
Success criteria: • I can give two examples of when I may not be able to use certain senses. • I understand that different individuals may sense things differently.
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. Take the children to an area with lots of differently shaped trees and play ‘Meet a Tree’. This involves being blindfolded, hugging a tree and then having to find your tree once the blindfold is removed. Time: 20mins.
3. Make up feely boxes containing differently textured items e.g. pine cones, feathers, moss, ferns, mud and stones. The children have to feel inside the box and describe what they feel, but not name the object. Time: 15mins.
4. Put differently smelling natural items e.g. mud, garlic, herbs or flowers in pierced cups. Divide the children into groups, blindfolding one child in each. Ask the blindfolded child to smell what is in the cup and describe it to the rest of their group. Give everyone in the group a shot at being blindfolded and describing. Time: 15mins.
5. Call out the five senses one at a time and get everyone to point at the part of their body that they use for that sense. When might we not be able to use certain senses? Can we always trust our senses? Time: 10mins.
Suggested follow-up activities
1. Look at some optical illusions. Discuss what the children are seeing and the reality.
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2. Discuss with your group what special senses animals have developed to help them. For example an owl has great eyesight for catching prey in the dark, a bat uses echolocation to catch insects at night and a mole has feelers on the tip of its nose to find insects.
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