The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide | Introduction 5Graphic Organizers and Domain-Wide Activities
Several different organizers and suggested activities are included to aid
students in their learning of the content in The Five Senses domain.
- Response Cards for The Five Senses (Instructional Master 1A-1)
can be used to help students distinguish between the five senses.
Students can use these Response Cards during discussions with their
partner and to answer questions about their senses. - The Five Senses Chart (one per sense) and The Five Senses Image
Sheet (Instructional Master 1C-2) can be used during the second
instructional day of each lesson for students to review what they have
learned about the sense presented on the previous day.
Note: You may wish to create a large class chart of the five senses to
display in front of the class during the read-alouds. Students can add
their own drawings or cut outs to the class chart. - Sensory Activities—you may wish to incorporate a hands-on activity
for each of the five senses.
For the sense of sight you could:- play “I Spy” inside and outside of the classroom
- have students make their own “I Spy” page by creating a collage
with magazine images - learn how to make hand shad ow puppets by using a flashlight in a
dark room.
For the sense of hearing you could: - show students three common classroom items that are different in
shape and weight. Have students close their eyes as you put those
items into separate boxes, and have the students shake the boxes
around and guess which item is in each box. - prepare sound clips of different sounds—e.g., animals, nature,
instruments—and play the sound clip to the students as they
figure out what makes the sound. You may wish to make this into a
sound BINGO game.
For the sense of smell you could: - make scented paints by adding imitation flavors (e.g., mint, vanilla,