Learning objectives

Knowledge 

  • To use the senses to observe and describe.

Working scientifically 

  • To decide what observations to record.

Success criteria

Knowledge

  • I can name the five senses.
  • I can name
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National curriculum

Science

Animals, including humans

Pupils

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Explain to the children that they will play a game to practise the five senses: taste, sight, hearing, touch and smell. Choose a simple action for each sense, for example: Taste: lick lips or rub tummy. Sight: pretend to hold binoculars to eyes. Hearing: cup hands behind ears. Touch: wiggle fingers. Smell: pinch your nose…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support: 

Could use the Knowledge organiser: Science – Sensitive bodies to help them answer the questions in the Attention grabber; could use the Activity: Touch test results table: support version to record their results; could only test with either the pen or the cotton bud, only filling in the final column of the results table.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should explain why it is important that people can feel things; should explain why fingertips are more sensitive than the back of the arms (for example, our fingertips get used more in daily life, help us to pick up things and work out if a temperature is safe).

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: naming the five senses; naming the body

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Vocabulary definitions

  • conclusion

    A summary of what has been found out.

  • hearing

    Listening to sounds with ears.

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