Our Senses
Audience: KS1 Science
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Exploring ways of looking, though the use of magnification, mirrors,
and frames
- Exploring the range of colour in plants and matching colours
- Making 'feely' bags
- Texture scavenger hunt
- Leaf and bark rubbings
- Concocting 'potions and perfumes' from plants
- Investigation of seasonal and specific weather conditions and their
effects
- Focused listening exercises
- Exploring animal camouflage
- Making sounds from natural objects
- Animal observations
- Trail sound poem or song
- Investigating the effects of exercise
- Matching shape hunt
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Gain awareness of the richness of colour, texture, sound, smell and
taste of the natural world
- Gain an appreciation of the "micro" world of plants and
animals
- Learn to observe and listen without disturbing animal life
- Extend their descriptive vocabulary
- Knowledge of seasonal and diurnal weather changes and their effect
on plants, animals and ourselves
- Enjoy composing and performing in a group
- Learn how they can establish directions and estimate distance
- Learn how the body changes as a result of exercise
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