Grade 1B

By: Jessica

Rynn
Title: Science 1 The Five Senses
Unit Overview
Seven Week Unit: January 5th February 26th
Week 1: Introduction to the senses
Week 2: Touching
Week 3: Smelling
Week 4: Tasting
Week 5: Seeing
Week 6: Hearing
Week 7: Review and Final Assessments
Rationale (Curriculum Alignment, CTS, Differentiation, etc.)
This unit is about the five senses. I am teaching this unit because it meets the learning
objectives in the provincial curriculum for grade one science.
I believe that this unit is likely to engage students because the content is very relevant to their
lives and daily experiences. I intend to establish this unit with very experiential and hands-on
learning activities which will hopefully excite the students and help to clarify the content as well.
This unit involves many practical applications, and I intend to include as many real-world
experiences in our classroom while teaching it.
I will provide all students will equal opportunities to access the necessary technology for this
unit by booking the schools technology for the class and providing sufficient class time to complete
the assignments and activities. The students will also be using a combination of both traditional as
well as technological means of communication, while exploring the five senses.
Month-at-a-glance (Jan 5- Feb 13)
Monday
Tuesday
Week 1
Introduction
to the senses

Week 2
Touching

5
Introduction
Encountering the ideas

6
Distinguishing between the senses
Related Body Parts

Distinguishing between the

senses Related Body Parts

Why we need our senses

12
Things We Can Touch:
Textures, Temperatures

13
Why We Need the Sense

Thursday
8
Why We Need our Senses
Distinguishing between the senses
Experiences
Sensation Stations
15
Loss of Sense Why we need our
sense of touch

Taking Care of our Fingers/Hands

Vocabulary for things We
Feel

Week 3
Smelling

19
Introduction to Smelling
Vocabulary for things We
Smell
What do we Smell?
Foods, Dirty things, Clean
things, Flowers, Animals,
Perfumes

Sense Limitations and being Misled

Experience Stations
20
MOVED TO WEDNESDAY:
Why We Need the Sense

22
Loss of Sense Why we need our
sense of smell

Other animals use the sense

Sense Limitations and being Misled

Connection to Sense of Taste

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Week 4
Tasting

Week 5
Seeing

Week 6
Hearing

Week 7
Review &
Final
Assessments

26
Introduction to Tasting

27
Why We Need the Sense

Vocabulary for things we

Taste:
Salty, Sweet, Sour, Bitter

Caring for our tongues

2
Intro to Seeing

3
Why We Need the Sense

Vocabulary for things we

See:
Colors, Sizes, Shapes,
Distance

Caring for your Eyes

29 Connection to Sense of Smell

Loss of Sense Smell/Taste Test
(Sense Limitations and being
Misled by Smell)

Taste Matching Game / Tongue

Diagram
5 Loss of Sense Visual
Impairment
Blind Trust Game Guide partner
through obstacle course
Sense Limitations and being
Misled: Simple Optical Illusions

Eyes Wide Open

Class Walk / Nature Walk
Eye Spy/ Color Spy Games
23
Intro to Hearing

24
Why We Need the Sense

Identify a variety of sounds

Caring for your Ears

Sound BINGO

Experiencing Sounds when other

senses are limited

2
Review / Checklist
Assessment

3
Review / Checklist Assessment

Sense Limitations and being

Misled:
Sound Effects Mimicking
Sounds what you hear is NOT
what it is
(Whistling like a bird, animal
noises, clock ticking, explosion,
etc.)
5
Review / Checklist Assessment

Musical Chairs Last one out has

to recall a fact!!

Musical Chairs Last one out has to

recall a fact!!

Cross the Line True/False

Statements

Hot Potato Trivia

Final Pages of Booklet:

Matching, Listing,
Identifying

26
Loss of Sense Hearing
Impairment

Complete any Unfinished

work

Outcomes
General Learner Outcomes
1-9 Use the senses to make general and specific observations orally and by producing captioned
pictures
1-10 Describe the role of the human senses and the senses of other living things, in enabling
perception and action
Specific Learner Expectations
1. Identify each of the senses, and explain how we use our senses in interpreting the world.

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2. Identify ways that our senses contribute to our safety and quality of life.
3. Apply particular senses to identify and describe objects or materials provided and to describe
living things and environments. Students meeting this expectation will be able to describe
characteristics, such as colour, shape, size, texture, smell and sound.
4. Recognize the limitations of our senses, and identify situations where our senses can mislead us;
e.g., feeling hot or cold, optical illusions, tasting with a plugged nose.
5. Recognize that other living things have senses, and identify ways that various animals use their
senses; e.g., sensing danger, finding food, recognizing their own young, recognizing a potential mate.
6. Describe ways that people adapt to limited sensory abilities or to the loss of a particular sense; e.g.,
colour blindness, inability to see objects at close range.
7. Describe ways to take care of our sensory organs, in particular, our eyes and ears.
Evaluation & Assessment
Outcome (Program of Studies)
1. Identify each of the senses, and explain how we use our senses in
interpreting the world.

Assessment Strategy/
Activity
My Five Senses Work
Booklets

2. Identify ways that our senses contribute to our safety and quality of
life.
3. Apply particular senses to identify and describe objects or materials
provided and to describe living things and environments. Students
meeting this expectation will be able to describe characteristics, such as
colour, shape, size, texture, smell and sound.
7. Describe ways to take care of our sensory organs, in particular, our
eyes and ears.
1. Identify each of the senses, and explain how we use our senses in
interpreting the world.
2. Identify ways that our senses contribute to our safety and quality of
life.
3. Apply particular senses to identify and describe objects or materials
provided and to describe living things and environments. Students
meeting this expectation will be able to describe characteristics, such as
colour, shape, size, texture, smell and sound.
4. Recognize the limitations of our senses, and identify situations where

Checklist
Based on observations,
discussions, activities
Review Games!

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our senses can mislead us; e.g., feeling hot or cold, optical illusions,
tasting with a plugged nose.
6. Describe ways that people adapt to limited sensory abilities or to the
loss of a particular sense; e.g., colour blindness, inability to see objects
at close range.
7. Describe ways to take care of our sensory organs, in particular, our
eyes and ears.

By: Jessica