Lets Communicate

Key Concepts- Intellectual Quality *Senses help us to make sense of our environment

Why does this learning matter? Significance This learning matters because *our senses help us and can protect us *there are different ways of communicating *information can be stored for later use *students understand more about their body and how it works Syllabus Content Outcomes: Indicators: INV1.2 Conducts guided investigations by *observe using all the senses observing,questioning,predicting, collecting and *makes predictions based on existing knowledge recording data and suggesting possible *interpret data and explain their observations explanations *undertake investigations as a result of curiosity *communicate ideas through ICS1.2 Creates a range of information products and communicates using a variety of media Formal assessment Criteria for marking Students will: Produce a book for someone with sensory impairment eg audio story, feely book

Teaching and Learning Sequence 1

1 Right Connect Enter the experience Capture attention 1 Left Reflect Clarifies reason for learning 2R-Image 2L Teach Provides information Systemic and sequential Variety of delivery systems Relate back to concept 3L Practice Hands on activities Worksheets Practice new learnings

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SMELL Read story of the children inventing new perfumes. Use chart paper/board to list the ideas that are put forward by class during this presentation. Does everything have a smell? Pass round the baby food jars with (i) water and (ii) rubbing alcohol and (iii) white vinegar in them. Note these all look the same. Volunteers to smell the bottles. What do we notice now? What about these bottles? Look at second set of bottles. (These could contain red vinegar, white vinegar and cider vinegar or you could also use white vinegar in this second set but colour each with different food colouring.) These all lookdifferent. What do we notice when we smell them? They are all the same kind of smell. On board put up pictures of gas stove, burning building and rotten food. How would our sense of smell help us here? Class to think about the dangers involved and how our smell helps us to detect these dangers. How do our noses work? Use spray bottle with perfume. Spray to side of group. Who can smell the perfume first? Why is that? Discuss movement of drops/particles/droplets in the air from where there is lots of the perfume to where there is little. Make own perfumed playdough TOUCH Mystery objects game

TASTE Taste investigation Sugar water/salt water/tonic water/lemon water HEARING covered in T3 When we cant hear sign language SIGHT When we cant see - Blindfolded obstacle course, needing glasses Catching a ball investigation Optical illusions

3R Tinker Move to personal usefulness Add something of themselves Encourage tinkering 4L- Evaluate and refine Is it worth doing? Helps mistakes become learning opportunities Gives guidance and feedback 4R Perform Do it, share it, celebrate learning, what if?

Create a resource for someone who is blind or deaf