Lesson 146: Five senses

🔬 SCIENCE (40 Lessons) • 🟣 D. Our Body and Health

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Objective

I can name the five senses, point to the sense organs on my body, and say how each sense helps me understand the world and stay safe.

Materials

Mini-lesson — The five senses

Your body has five senses. They help you know what is around you and help you stay safe.

Sight (seeing)

  • You use your eyes to see things.
  • You can see colors, shapes, and movement.
  • Sight helps you see if something is near a step or a road.

Hearing (listening)

  • You use your ears to hear sounds.
  • You can hear voices, music, and noise.
  • Hearing helps you notice a car or someone calling your name.

Smell

  • You use your nose to smell.
  • You can smell things that are nice, like flowers or food, and things that are not nice.
  • Smell can warn you if something is burning or spoiled.

Taste

  • You use your tongue to taste food.
  • You can taste sweet, salty, sour, and more.
  • Taste helps you enjoy food and notice if it is too hot or does not taste right.

Touch

  • You use your skin, especially on your hands, to feel things.
  • You can feel if something is hot or cold, soft or rough.
  • Touch helps you know if something is safe to hold or if you should move away.

Together, your five senses help your brain make a picture of the world. They help you learn, play, and stay safe.

Picture strip: Sense organs and senses

Sense organs

Five senses

Guided Practice — Match senses to sense organs

You will look at your face and hands, name the sense organs, and say which sense they use.

  1. Use a mirror or picture: Look at your face or a simple face picture.
  2. Eyes and sight: Point to your eyes and say "These are my eyes. I see with my eyes."
  3. Ears and hearing: Point to your ears and say "These are my ears. I hear with my ears."
  4. Nose and smell: Point to your nose and say "This is my nose. I smell with my nose."
  5. Tongue and taste: Gently point to your tongue and say "This is my tongue. I taste with my tongue."
  6. Skin and touch: Rub your hands together and touch the table. Say "This is my skin. I feel with my skin."
  7. Make a sense table: On paper, draw 5 small boxes and label them: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. Under each, draw the body part that uses that sense.
  8. Use the tracing pad: Choose words like eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, sight, or touch and trace them slowly. Say a short sentence for each word you trace.
Tracing Pad
Tracing snapshot for print
Tip: As you trace each word, say a full sentence like "I smell with my nose."

Practice 1 — Five-sense stations

Set up little sense stations so your child can try each sense one by one.

  1. With an adult, collect safe items for each sense. For example: a bright picture (sight), a bell or soft music (hearing), a flower or spice (smell), a small snack (taste), and a soft toy or rough sponge (touch).
  2. Make five stations on a table or mat and label them: "sight", "hearing", "smell", "taste", and "touch".
  3. Visit each station. Use the matching sense organ and say a sentence such as "I see the picture with my eyes" or "I hear the bell with my ears".
  4. After trying all the stations, ask, "Which sense did you like using the most? Why?"

Practice 2 — I spy with my senses

Play a talking game using each sense to notice things around you.

  1. Sit in a room or outside with your child. Take turns starting a sentence with "I spy with my…"
  2. For sight, say: "I spy with my eyes something blue."
  3. For hearing, say: "I spy with my ears a soft sound."
  4. For smell, say: "I spy with my nose something that smells nice."
  5. For taste (if you have food), say: "I spy with my tongue something sweet."
  6. For touch, say: "I spy with my skin something rough."
  7. Let the child answer each one, then make up their own "I spy with my…" clues.

Practice 3 — Five-senses poster

Make a simple poster that shows all five senses and their sense organs.

  1. Draw a big circle for a face with eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Draw two hands near the bottom of the page.
  2. Write the words "eyes", "ears", "nose", "tongue", and "skin" or "hands" near the picture.
  3. Draw little arrows from each word to the right place on the face or hands.
  4. Under the picture, write five short sentences, such as: "I see with my eyes.", "I hear with my ears.", and so on.
  5. Colour your poster and put it somewhere you can read it again later.

Quick Check — Five senses

Answer each question about the five senses. Think about which sense organ you use and what it helps you do.

1) Which sense uses your eyes?

We see with our eyes, so eyes are for sight.

2) Which body part helps you hear?

Ears are the sense organ for hearing.

3) You smell a flower. Which sense are you using?

Smell is the sense you use with your nose.

4) Which body part do you use to taste food?

We taste with our tongue.

5) What sense lets you feel if something is hot or cold?

Touch uses your skin to feel temperature and texture.

6) Which list shows all five senses?

The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

7) You hear a loud siren on the road. Which sense is helping you stay safe?

Hearing lets you notice sounds like sirens or cars.

8) Which sentence about senses is true?

Eyes are for sight and nose is for smell.

9) A pillow feels soft and a rock feels hard. Which sense notices this?

Your skin and hands use touch to feel soft and hard.

10) You look both ways before crossing a road. Which sense helps you see if cars are coming?

Sight helps you see cars, bikes, and people.

11) Which body part goes with the sense of touch?

Touch uses your skin, especially on your hands.

12) Which words best match the sense of taste?

Sweet, salty, and sour are ways to describe tastes.

13) A child says, "I smell smoke in the kitchen." Which sense is that?

Smell can warn us if something might be burning.

14) When you draw a picture of the five senses, which is the best list of organs to show?

Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are the main sense organs.

15) Why is it useful to learn about your five senses?

Knowing your senses helps you enjoy and understand the world and stay safe.

Assessment (parent/teacher)

Exit ticket (student)

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