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Sensory boards and bottles

Science Year 1
This unit is part of Year 1 Science Ourselves

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Objectives

Discuss what we know about all five senses. Accept a challenge to make a sensory board and bottles for a local community group. Gather together safe but stimulating things to engage the different senses. Classify these together into the five sensory groups.

Science Objectives
i) identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which parts of the body is associated with which sense.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Observe closely, using simple equipment.
  3. Perform simple tests.
  4. Identify and classify.
  5. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  6. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Other Curriculum Areas
Design and Technology
Design: Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.
Make: Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.
Evaluate: Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.

Extended Writing Opportunities
Labels, lists and signs: Make a sign to go with the final sensory board.
Letters: Write a letter to the community explaining the rationale behind the sensory board.
Stories with repeating patterns: Use the items on the sensory board as prompts to orally retell a familiar story before writing it down.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Making sensory boards and bottles resource
  • Letter from the playgroup resource

Additional Resources

  • Bottles
  • Thick cardboard or wooden boards
  • Small objects (interesting, maybe glittery, waterproof, safe) and materials with a variety of textures
  • Sounds and colours for the sensory boards
  • Strong tape
  • Glue gun

Weblinks
Information for adults on the human senses from www.todayifoundout.com
BBC Bitesize - The five senses from www.bbc.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Understand that we have five senses and that we rely on these to make sense of the world.
  • Accept a challenge to produce sensory items for a local community group.
  • Classify different stimulating items into sensory groups on a sensory board and in sensory bottles for a local community group.
  • Send the board and bottles to the community and write a letter explaining the rationale behind them.

Activities

  1. Understand that we have five senses and that we rely on these to make sense of the world.
  2. Accept a challenge to produce sensory items for a local community group.
  3. Classify different stimulating items into sensory groups on a sensory board and in sensory bottles.
  4. Send the board and bottles to the community and explain the rationale and learning behind them.

Investigation - sorting, classifying and identifying
Accept a challenge to produce sensory items for a local community group.
Classify different stimulating items into sensory groups on a sensory board and in sensory bottles for a local community group.

Vocabulary
Touch, sight, smell, taste, hear, sensory

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