Five Senses Lesson Plans Now Available on Lesson Plan Source

Lesson plans about the five senses are now available on Lesson Plan Source. Lesson Plan Source is a website where teachers can find lesson plans on a variety of subjects to help them plan for the work they will need to do in the classroom - the work of educating. Lesson Plan Source offers lesson plans for kids from Pre-K to third grade. The subjects covered by Lesson Plan Source include trees and nature, seasons, physical education, math, activities for popular holidays such as Valentine’s Day, and even music.

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The new Five Senses lesson plans from Lesson Plan Source offer a method of teaching students between preschool and third grade about the five senses - smell, sight, taste, touch, and sound. The collection includes 10 lesson plans which cover an introduction to the five senses, each of the five senses individually, how the five senses all work together, and how people who are blind and deaf use their other senses to make up for the sense that is impaired. There is also a lesson on “active listening” which teaches students to pay attention to and think about what they can hear. This lesson involves games and activities which encourage students to be “good listeners” by thinking about what they can hear.

All of the Five Senses lesson plans available from Lesson Plan Source utilize age-appropriate activities to teach children about the five senses. For example, the lesson plan exploring the sense of sound involves an explanation of vibrations and sound waves with a yardstick, followed by exploring the vibrations made by various instruments, including vocal cords, a guitar, and a drum. The lesson plan on the sense of taste starts with an explanation of taste buds and saliva, and continues with an activity where students taste things with the primary flavors that human can taste - salty, sweet, bitter and sour. Students then break up into stations where they can map their taste buds according to which part of their tongue is most sensitive to which flavor.

The “senses working together” lesson plan experiments with the ways that humans’ sense of smell is essential to properly tasting food, and how it works together with the sense of taste to provide people with a full bodied eating experience. For this activity, students will eat various foods while blindfolded with their noses plugged and try to guess which food is which. This also allows students an introduction to what life is like for people who do not have a functioning sense of smell, which transitions the conversation nicely into teaching about sense impairments, specifically blindness and deafness.

The lesson plans about blindness and deafness introduce students to alternative methods of communication. “Hearing by seeing” teaches students about sign language and the concept of lip reading, and allows them to explore the basics of fingerspelling with the American Sign Language finger alphabet. “Seeing by touching” introduces students to Braille, providing them a chance to experience what reading would be like if they could not see. During this lesson, students will learn the basics of reading and writing in braille with a fast drying glue and their fingertips. According to the Lesson Plan Source website, worksheets to go along with these lesson plans will be available soon.

By the end of the collection of Five Senses Lesson Plans, students will be able to name their own five senses of smell, sight, taste, touch and hearing, and also have empathy for and knowledge about how people who have impaired senses experience the world. Finally, they will be more experienced in active listening, an important skill for any young student to learn.

Teachers interested in accessing these lesson plans on the five senses on Lesson Plan Source can do so here: https://lessonplansource.com/five-senses-lesson-plans/

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