My five senses

How do you know the world is there? Five ways.

ScienceAges 2–312 minutes3 pagesEnglish textInk-light

Being written

This one is planned but not finished yet. Everything below is what it will contain.

Not drawn yet

I can name my five senses and what I use for each.

How the fifteen minutes go

The five steps on this sheet, in the order a child meets them. This is what you will actually be doing, not a description of the method.

Print the one that fits today. Same skill, three depths — and on this sheet they differ like this.

Support

Three senses: see, hear, touch.

Fewer items, more pictures, hints included, parent reads the instructions.

Core

All five.

The standard task, recognition, practice and explanation.

Challenge

Name something you could identify with your eyes shut, and how.

Open-ended. Explain why, make your own example, use it somewhere new.

The same guide that is printed on the back page, so you can read it before you decide to print anything.

The answers

eye→see, ear→hear, nose→smell, tongue→taste, hand→touch.

If they get stuck

Do it on their own body. Point to your ear and ask what it is for.

Common mistakes

Matching by picture position rather than meaning.
Confusing smell and taste, a genuinely fair confusion, and worth exploring rather than correcting.

When they finish early

Blindfold game: identify three things by touch alone.