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Central Idea: We use our senses to explore and understand the world -…
Central Idea: We use our senses to explore and understand the world
Line 1 - Discovering our senses: Learning about our five senses - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. (Form) (Characteristics)
Key Concept - Form: Understanding what our senses are. Characteristics:
Recognising the different features of our senses.
Visits to the Market: Children can use their senses to explore different foods, textures, and smells. Example: Feeling the texture of fruits, smelling spices, and seeing the variety of colours.
Exploring Household Items: Using common household items to identify and describe different senses. Example: Feeling the softness of a blanket, hearing the sound of a clock ticking, seeing the bright light of a lamp.
Music and Sound Exploration: Introducing children to different musical instruments and sounds. Example: Listening to the sound of a drum, feeling the vibrations of a tuning fork, seeing the movement of a violin bow.
Cooking Activities: Engaging children in simple cooking tasks to use their senses. Example: Smelling ingredients, feeling dough, hearing the sizzle of cooking food, seeing the colours of vegetables.
Sensory Garden/Nature Walk: Children explore different plants, flowers, and textures using their senses. Example: Identifying different senses used in the garden, like smelling flowers, touching leaves, hearing birds, and seeing colours.
Line 2 - How our senses help us explore: Understanding how we use our senses to find out about the world around us. (Function) (Purpose)
Key Concept - Function: Understanding how our senses work.
Purpose: Understanding the role our senses play in exploring the world.
• Field Trips to Museums: Visiting sensory exhibits where children can touch, hear, and see different artifacts. Example: Interactive exhibits that engage multiple senses, such as touching dinosaur bones or hearing historical sounds.
• Gardening: Involving children in planting and caring for a garden. Example: Smelling flowers, touching soil, seeing plants grow, hearing the rustle of leaves.
• Nature Walks: Encouraging children to use their senses to explore nature. Example: Listening to bird songs, feeling the bark of trees, seeing different shades of green.
• Exploring Different Textures: Providing materials with varied textures for sensory exploration. Example: Feeling smooth stones, rough sandpaper, soft cotton, and bumpy pinecones.
• Science Experiments: Conducting simple experiments to understand how senses work. Example: Exploring how light affects what we see, how sound travels, and how different textures feel.
Line 3 - What we feel through our senses: Exploring different things we can see, hear, touch, taste
Key Concept - Connection: Recognising how our senses help us connect to the world.
Experience: Discovering the impact of our senses on how we perceive the world.
• Sensory Bins: Creating bins filled with materials like sand, water beads, and rice for sensory play. Example: Feeling the texture of rice, hearing the sound of water beads moving, seeing the colours of different materials.
• Taste Tests: Introducing children to different tastes and flavours. Example: Tasting sweet, sour, salty, and bitter foods and describing the experiences.
• Interactive Storytelling: Using props and materials to make stories come alive through senses. Example: Feeling the fur of an animal puppet, hearing the sound of a story character, seeing colourful story illustrations.
• Music and Movement: Encouraging children to explore sounds and movements. Example: Dancing to music, playing instruments, feeling the rhythm through their bodies.
• Art and Craft Activities: Using different materials to create sensory art projects. Example: Using textured paints, scented markers, and various fabrics to create art.
Possible Assessment Methods
• Senses Portfolio: Collecting children's work and activities related to their exploration of senses.
• Interactive Demonstrations and Projects: Children showing and explaining what they have learned about their senses.
• Observation Journals: Teachers and parents noting down children's experiences and discoveries about their senses.
Learner Profile (with examples)
• Thinker: Thinking about how we use our senses every day.
• Reflective: Considering our experiences and learning from them.
• Inquirer: Asking questions and being curious about our senses.
Transdisciplinary Learning Subject Integration
• Language: Reading stories and books about senses. Talking about what we discover with our senses and describing different sensations.
• Personal, Social, and Physical Education (PSPE): Engaging in activities that involve using our senses, like sensory play. Playing games that help us use and identify our senses.
• Science: Exploring different objects and materials to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Simple experiments to test and observe our senses.
Approaches to Learning
Research Skills: Trying out different activities to learn about our senses.
Communication Skills: Talking about our sensory experiences and sharing with friends and family.
Thinking Skills: Exploring how our senses work and what they help us discover.