Senses

In the past few weeks we have been learning about our 5 senses in Science.  We have been exploring our senses through a number of hands on activities including:

-Mystery bags for touch
-Shaking tests for hearing
-Taste testing with a variety of foods
-Looking at close up pictures and making predictions and wonders about what they might be
-Smelling vials of mystery scents

Students have been using the scientific method to record and describe their predictions and observations in their visual journal.

We have been incorporating adjectives we have learned in science into our descriptive writing.  We wrote a descriptive piece on cake and popcorn so far using our 5 senses to paint a picture in ours readers minds.

We are now connecting the knowledge we have learned to animal senses.  We have discovered that animals use their senses in different ways than humans.  Students have also learned about predator vs prey and how their senses differ from each other.