Lesson Plan Outline

Introduction

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Lesson Topic: Five Senses
Lesson Length: 30 minutes

K.2 Students will investigate and understand that humans have senses that allow one to seek, find,
take in, and react or respond to information in order to learn about one’s surroundings. Key
concepts include
a) five senses and corresponding sensing organs (taste – tongue, touch – skin, smell – nose,
hearing – ears, and sight – eyes); and
b) sensory descriptors (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, rough/smooth, hard/soft, cold, warm, hot,
loud/soft, high/low, bright/dull).

Cognitive Objectives

The student will:

 Identify senses of hearing and the body part that is used to hear
 Use sensory descriptors for hearing.

Materials/Technology and Advanced Preparation

Hearing picture cards

Sounds track
Diagram/Model of an ear
Tuning fork
Drum
Bingo stampers

Teaching and Learning Sequence

Introduction/Anticipatory Set

 Ask students what do they think of when they hear the word sound? Can they name
some different sounds? What body part do they use to hear?

Lesson Development
  Our ears help us hear sounds. Inside our ear are tiny bones that vibrate. Pull out the
tuning fork and show the students how it vibrates when you hit it. Have the students try
making the tuning fork vibrate.
 Show students the model ear. Explain the sounds enter our ear and make the tiny bones
vibrate. One of those bones is called the eardrum. Show students the drum; explain how
it’s similar to our eardrum. When our eardrum vibrates it helps us hear. Play the drum
and then pass it to the students. Allow them to feel and play the drum.
 Ask students why it’s important to hear? Our sense of hearing to help us get information
about the world around us. Ask students if they can name ways their sense of hearing can
help them? Talk about warning sounds they may have heard.
 Ask students if they need to see someone to be able to talk to them? If you couldn’t see
the person who was talking would you still be able to know who it was? Our brain makes
memories of the sounds we hear. We recognize them when we hear them again. This is
why we don’t need to see people to know who they are. We recognize their voice.
 Play a sound for the students. Ask them to describe it. Was it loud or soft? High or low?
Explain to students these are words we use to describe sounds. Write these words on the
board.
 Hand out the paper and bingo stampers. Tell students they are going to listen to some
sounds and try matching them with the pictures on their paper. When they find a match
they will use the bingo stamper to mark it off.

Closure

 Review the sounds that the students heard and show them the matches on their paper.
Review concepts talked about in the lesson. What body part do we use to hear? Play
a few sounds for students and ask them to describe the sounds using the words they
learned. What do our senses help us do?

Assesment

Formative – Teacher observations, guided questions and oral feedback

Summative – Paper and Pencil Test (see below)

References:

MathScience Innovation Center – mathinscience.info

Name: _______________________________________ Date:___________________

Circle the body part used to hear.

Circle all the words used to describe sounds.

Loud Smooth Hard High

High Rough Shiny Low

Name: __________________________

Stamp the pictures that match the sound you hear.