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The Five Senses Unit PlanThe Five Senses Unit Plan
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Mississippi State University
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Pre-K - 2nd
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English Language Arts
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The Five Senses

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Your learners engage their five senses every day without knowing it. Help them identify their experiences and extend their understanding with a month full of lessons designed for the five senses. Kids focus on a different sense every week, reading books, creating projects, and stimulating their senses.

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Concepts

the five senses, sense of hearing, sense of sight, sense of smell, sense of taste, sense of touch, texture, patterns, instruments, animal sounds

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Set up several stations during a learning period, rotating small groups or pairs of kids through each station
  • Use in a class for kids with sensory processing problems

Classroom Considerations

  • The curriculum guide groups the senses of smell and taste together in the same week
  • The activities are organized into centers, with a few learners working in each center at a time
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Each week's lessons feature engaging, hands-on activities
  • Provides a list of recommended books for a month focused on the five senses, complete with vocabulary words and comprehension questions for each book
  • Activities include elements of math, science, language arts, and social studies

Cons

  • None

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