Our 5 Senses Mini-Unit

Created by: Jennie Beltz

Objective: TSW understand that humans have 5;

taste, touch, smell, hear, and sight, senses that help us

interact and respond to our environment. We have

special sense organs that help us learn about our

surroundings including our eyes, ears, nose, tongue,

skin.

We will do various hands-on activities during this unit.

The students may get messy hands and you may want to

ask parents for donations to help make this unit

successful!

I will include several blackline masters as well as a

description of the activity.

The first page of this unit is an assessment you can use

at the end of the unit.

The following pages are vocabulary cards that will help

your students with common vocabulary associated with

the 5 senses.

Enjoy!

Name: _________________________________________________________________________

Directions: Cut out a picture and use it to complete a sentence correctly.

My Five Senses

1. I smell with my _______________.

2. I hear with my _______________.

3. I touch with my ______________.

4. I see with my ________________.

5. I taste with my ______________.

Taste

See

Hear

Touch

Smell

Make a strip book with your students using the dots under each word for pointing purposes.

My 5 Senses By: ____________________________________

I see with my eyes.

I hear with my ears.

I touch with my hands.

I smell with my nose.

I taste with my mouth.

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth

Sung to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Be sure to point to your body parts!

Eyes, ears, nose and mouth

Nose and mouth

Eyes, ears, nose and mouth

Nose and mouth

Hands and Fingers make the 5

Eyes, ears, nose and mouth

Nose and mouth

Name: _____________________________________

Calling All Taste Buds!

Saltine

It tasted

Baker’s Chocolate

It tasted

Lemon

It tasted

Graham Cracker It tasted

My favorite food to taste was _________________.

My least favorite food to taste was _____________.

Activity for sound:

Collect different materials that will make a sound

when dropped to the floor. Create a class chart

that allows students to make predictions. Also

leave a space to record actual findings. It might

look like this:

Object: Predictions: Outcome:

Fork Yes ___ No __

Cotton ball Yes ___ No __

Students will make predictions on whether or not

the object will create a sound when falling to the

floor. The outcome will record if the object did

or did not make a sound.

Some objects you might include:

Fork Tissue Foam letter

Cotton ball Pencil Piece of paper

Wooden block Glue stick Crayon

Activity for Touching:

Create touching boxes. Make 6, or any number,

touch boxes filled with a variety of materials. I

like to use Pringles cans, they are deep enough to

hold materials and keep out little eyes. You will

need baby wiped handy also. Give your students a

few to hold before you begin.

Allow each child to put their hand in the touch

box. After each box goes around, ask the

students for their predictions, What is in the

box? After they have offered their predictions,

share with them what is in the box.

Do this with all the boxes.

Some materials to include:

Jello Cooked Spaghetti Pinecone

Playdough Sandpaper Rocks

Shaving cream Piece of a soft blanket