RPSEC Student Programs for
South Carolina & Georgia Schools

 

Exploring Our Senses

Student Programs Lesson Information, Standards Correlations, and Post Visit Activities


Exploring Our Senses: (Grades 4K & 5K • 60 minutes) Students will explore and exercise their five senses through hands-on, eyes-on, ears-on, noses-on activities. Working together in small groups, they will use descriptors such as rough, smooth, hard, soft, round, flat, sweet, salty, sour, and bitter as they experience and identify mystery sights, sounds, textures, shapes, smells, and tastes.

Traveling Science Kits that support or extend this lesson
Related Children’s Literature List
Pre & Post Visit Activities

This lesson supports the following science standards:

South Carolina Schools

Georgia Schools

Grade K: SCSS 3.1, 3.2

Kindergarten Science
My Body
Standard K-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the distinct structures of human body and the different functions they serve. (Life Science)

Indicators:
3.1 Identify the distinct structures in the human body that are for walking, holding, touching, seeing, smelling, hearing, talking, and tasting.
3.2 Identify the functions of the sensory organs (including the eyes, nose, ears, tongue, and skin).

  

Please direct inquiries to:
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center
c/o Student Programs
USC Aiken, Box 3, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801
(803) 641-3313 from Augusta 278-1967 Ext. 3313

RPSEC@usca.edu

Copyright © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.

Ruth Patrick Science Education Center
Center of Excellence in Educational Technology
University of South Carolina Aiken
471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29801
803-641-3313

URL: http://rpsec.usca.edu/student/Programs/ExploringSenses/ExploringOurSenses.html (April 2008)