IT Project:

Abby Miller, Emily Schug, Holly Clauson, Kelsey Woodward

Lesson Plan Template

Kindergarten
Literacy
Body Awareness
The Five Senses
What the Five Senses Are Used For
MindMup, Print (books) Look, Listen, Taste,
Touch, and Smell by Pamela Hill Nettleton
Students will be able to use senses to make
Standard
observations and classify objects. Students will
be listening to a book and interacting with the
class and teacher to identity smell, sight, sounds,
touch, and taste. LPS (Lincoln Public School)
Curriculum Standards,NE (Nebraska) Standards,
andNETS (National Educational Technology
Standards).
Introduction A brief description about the lesson and overview
of the important elements (e.g., things you want
students to be sure to remember after completing
the lesson, etc.
For this lesson the students will need access to
Technology
Uses/Material the book, and the teacher will need access to a
Computer, Ipad, and Projector.
s Needed
Objective 1: TSW classify objects by using the
Objectives
senses of sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing.
Objective 2: TSW use the sense of sight to make
observations.
Objective 3: TSW use the sense of touch to make
observations.
Objective 4: TSW use the sense of smell to make
observations.
Endorsement
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Objective 5: TSW use the sense of hearing to

make observations.
Objective 6: TSW use the sense of taste to make
observations.
Preparing the To prepare for this lesson students will look and
listen to the book being read by the teacher. The
Student
students will then discuss with the teacher the
aspects of each sense. Students are expected to
have minimal background knowledge of each
sense.
Assessment of Assessments of Student Learning (formative and
summative/individual and group; Blooms
Student
Taxonomy)
Learning
The students will learn through all six stages of
Blooms Taxonomy: Remember, Understand,
Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create.
1 Remember:

The students will recall the

information given during the lesson. They
will know the names to each of the five
senses.
2 Understand: The students will show their
understanding by using their knowledge to
rephrase the definitions and name which
part of the body is used for each sense.
Students will predict which sense will be
used to asses an item.
3 Apply: Students will use their senses and the
vocabulary words discussed to describe
items.
4 Analyze: Students will compare and contrast
the different aspects of each of the senses.
Students will recognize the relationships
between their lives and the way they use the

senses.
5 Evaluate: Students will explain and justify why
an example corresponds with a sense.
6 Create: Students will learn through the creative
stage of Blooms Taxonomy by using their
knowledge and experience to build a
MindMup of the senses. The MindMup will
have definitions, pictures, and examples
chosen by the students. The information
will be displayed in a way that is different
from how it was presented to the students
by the teacher.
Lesson
Sequence

1 The

teacher will first read the book about the

senses with the students in order for the
students to gain the proper background
knowledge.
2 The teacher will then review the book with the
students and make sure everyone
understands what each of the 5 senses are
and what they do.
3 After reading the book and reviewing the book
the students will line up and one at a time
pick an item out of bag. With this item, they
will take it back to their desks and start
describing them based on the senses: look,
listen, taste, touch, and smell. It can be
objects around the classroom.
4 Once the students have the items on their desk
they should write out their descriptions very
detailed and list what sense they are using
for each description
5 After students have done one item they should
exchange their item for another student and
repeat the description process and

collaborate with the partner they switched

with to see what they both got.
6 Next the teacher will create a MindMup that lists
all the senses and words associated with that
sense and have the students help you fill in
the boxes to gain understanding.
7 After the class finishes the MindMup they will
go through and make sure everyone
understand what each sense means
8 The teacher will think of examples to do with
her class that her class can do to practice
where each sense is on the body
Measuremen The measurement of success in this lesson is the
t of Success MindMup at the end that allows for the teacher to
see if the kids can fill in the boxes corresponding
to the right sense. If they can correctly then you
know they learned something, if not then your
lesson wasnt successful. This MindMup can be
applied to other lessons by showing this MindMup
when doing other activities that have to do with
senses for a reminder of what the senses are. This
will incorporate different levels of metacognition
because they will have to think about where and
what each sense does each time they do an activity
with these concepts involved.