The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 5 | I Use My Skin to Touch 115

II Use My Skin to Touch Use My Skin to Touch

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Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Describe the sense of touch

 Identify the skin as being associated with the sense of touch

 Provide simple explanations about how the skin works

 Describe how the sense of touch helps people learn about their world

 Describe some ways the sense of touch protects people from harm

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this lesson.

Objectives aligning with the Common Core State Standards are noted

with the corresponding standard in parentheses. Refer to the Alignment

Chart for additional standards addressed in all lessons in this domain.

Students will:

 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key

details from “I Use My Skin to Touch” (RI.K.2)

 With prompting and support, describe the connection between the

sense of touch and a mosquito bite, the sense of touch and an injury,

and using the sense of touch to describe unseen objects (RI.K.3)

 With assistance, categorize information about the sense of touch on a

chart (W.K.8)

 Respond to questions that use question words, using language

related to the sense of touch, to try to guess an unseen object (L.K.1d)

 Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language

activities (L.K.1f)

 Identify new meanings for skin and apply them accurately (L.K.4a)

 Identify real-life connections between words—touch, sensitive, skin,

injury, and texture—and their use (L.K.5c)