LESSON PLAN

DISCRIPTION:  This activity is geared for the kindergarten classroom. The students will explore the sense of touch by digging into my mystery bags. In your own classroom you can vary the items you    include. The students enjoy hands on activities so this is a great one to incorporate into your senses lesson.

Student Learning Map

Topic: Five Senses                                                  School/District:

Key Learning: (this is linked to the Unit Essential Question)

Unit Essential Question: (the Unit EQ)

Concept: Identify objects based on touch and unique characteristics	Concept:	Concept:
Lesson Essential Questions: What does the sense of touch allow us to do?	Lesson Essential Questions:	Lesson Essential Questions:
Vocabulary: Soft Hard Smooth Rough Cold Hot/ warm Squishy Stretchy	Vocabulary:	Vocabulary:

Acquisition Lesson Plan

Plan for the concept, topic, or skill-not for the day             Name: Rebecca Weeks

                                                                                                            Topic: Five senses

Essential Question: What does the sense of touch allow us to do?

What do students need to learn to be able to answer the Essential Question? Assessment Prompt: The students will perform an activity to identify objects with only using their hands. They will also use learned vocabulary to classify the objects. Assessment Prompt: The students will perform an activity to complete a simple puzzle. They are instructed to only use their hands/ sense of touch. Assessment Prompt:

Activating Strategy: Today we are going to explore mystery bags! I need you to use your new vocabulary to figure out what is inside my mystery bags. I hope you’re up for the challenge! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key vocabulary to preview: Soft Hard Smooth Rough Cold Hot/ warm Squishy Stretchy

Teaching Strategies: Graphic Organizer: The students will be supplied with a Graphic organizer to record their predictions.

Instruction: The teacher will model the activity in front of the whole group. At this point he/ she would use appropriate terminology to gear their thinking of the new vocabulary. Once the demonstration is over, clear up any lingering questions or concerns. AP#1:  The students will reach their hand in the mystery bag and feel the object. Keeping their hands in the bag the whole time, students will use their sense of touch to identify what they think the object is. They will then record it on their graphic organizer in the corresponding bag number. Underneath the object prediction, ask the students to write one or two vocabulary words to describe the object.  After exploring objects one through ten, the teacher will bring the students back to whole group discussion. Have a student, one at a time, come up and reveal the objects in each bag. The students can self-check their work for accuracy. AP #2: Secondly, have small groups work together to complete a simple 4-6 piece puzzle. Tell the students they are only to use their sense of touch (blindfolds optional). This should be a challenge for students to complete. This activity will lead to further whole group discussion. AP #3: Assignment:

Summarizing Strategy: The students can then discuss the how we use all five of our senses together to identify things in our world. Discuss the difficulty in completing the puzzle. How would this relate to children with special needs and the challenges they face daily. How could we support students who have these struggles (Brail)?