Question

How do children acquire knowledge through five sense?

Answer 1

 

����������� Children learn everything through the five senses, so it is very essential for children to learn how they comprehend information.� This unit will explain each of the five senses in detail and give children a chance to explore their knowledge using their five senses.� They will be using their eyes, hands, ears, nose, and mouth to gain knowledge of the world around them.


Unit Learning Goals

�        The learner will develop an appreciation for their five senses.

�        The learner will develop and understanding of the five senses.

�        The learner will learn vocabulary of each of the five senses.

�        The learner will know the differences between the five senses.

�        The learner will read and write information about the five senses.

�        The learner will create a story about the five senses.

Instructional Overview

The unit will begin with the story My Five Senses by Aliki to open the discussion about the five senses.� I will read the story to the children to give them a general idea of what the five senses include.� We will focus on each sense individually before bringing them all together.� The first two days we will focus on the concept of sight.� I will first have the children explain to me what they feel sight is and then I will explain it in depth.� I will explain how the eyes are the location at which sight occurs and that we use our eyes to learn things such as colors, sizes, and shapes of objects.� The first lesson plan incorporating the sense of sight �Jumbo Objects� has the children get into groups to try to determine which tools help show more detail.� The children will work together to come up with the solution to the question, �Which tool helps to see more detail?� This lesson will be indirect instruction because I want to see what the children can come up with by themselves before giving them any hinted advice.� At the end of the activity we will come back together and discuss our findings.� We will work together cooperatively to figure out how much detail each object depicts and which tool showed more detail.� Another lesson �What Do You See� will also be used to focus on sight as a way of gaining knowledge of the world around us.� This lesson will have myself, as the teacher, showing pictures of different objects to the children and the children will use their eyes to figure out what the object is.� The lesson will start off with indirect instruction because the children are using their knowledge to come up with the right answer.� After all pictures are shown cooperative learning will take place because the children will talk with me to go over each picture again to determine the right answer.�Through talking with each other, the children will comprehend the concept of sight.

The next two days will be focused on the concept of touch.� Again I will have the children first tell me what they feel touch is and then I will explain touch in more depth.� I will explain how our skin is the location of the sense of touch which we use to determine the roughness, smoothness, hardness, softness, or different shapes of objects.� I will explain how we use touch to determine different textures of objects by how they feel to the human touch.� The first lesson plan dealing with touch �Hidden Textures� will help the children distinguish between different types of textures that different objects pertain.� This lesson will also involve indirect instruction because the children are working together in groups to determine the right texture.� I, as the teacher, will be standing back observing the children as they explore the different textures on their own.� When the children complete the task, we will use cooperative learning by meeting together to discuss results and talk together to learn about the concept of touch.� Another lesson �Feeling Different Objects� will have the children feeling different objects and comprehending what they feel like.� The children will actually see the objects to touch and feel to understand what the different objects feel like.� This lesson, however, will be direct instruction with me in the front of the class telling the children what certain objects feel like.� I will reinforce the textures the children experimented with previously in �Hidden Textures.�� I will choose an object and have the children look at it and feel it.� I will describe what the object feels like and continue that pattern with the rest of the objects.� After explaining each object and it�s texture, I will quiz the children by holding up one of the objects and asking them to tell me what the texture of that object is.� This quiz and talking with the children will determine how the children comprehended the concept of touch.