Fun with the 5 Senses

This month in Science my class were learning about the five senses. Here are some of the activities we did based on the Senses, which I spread over a few lessons.

• Structure of the sense organs

The interactive lessons provided by the Children's University  of Manchester are brilliant. I used some of the lessons on the senses to teach the children about the different parts of the eye etc.

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Experiments/Activities

Eye

Which is your dominant eye?

Where is your blind spot?

Hearing

Identify the sound

I used this video on youtube. 

Smell

What's that smell?

Taste

Blind tasting with and without the sense of smell

Touch

• Feely bag (make it trickier by putting a sock or glove on their hand or use different parts of the body to feel the object to show that our sense of touch is less sensitive on our arm than our finger tips etc. )
• Trace a message on an arm (and guess what they traced)

• Finger prints (chat about how each finger print is individual)

 Find this experiment and more by clicking here.

Sense poetry

I gave a different setting to each child. They had to use the formation of a sense poem to describe the setting without mentioning it. The rest of the class had to guess the setting.

Examples: farmyard, seaside, woods, school, cinema, restaurant

• Discussion/appreciation of not having use of one of your senses

For example, we looked at how Braille is used for those who are visually impaired.