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Discovery of the World: The 5 senses...

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Purpose :

To show students the faculties that allow us to appreciate the world - associating the sense and the part of the body concerned

Presentation of the theme:    Image playback

Display a poster highlighting one or more meanings in the grouping corner. (I chose the Justine reading method poster)

  • Description of the image - Use of precise vocabulary -How could you tell me all this? What meaning did you use?(see=the view)

  • Imagine -On the image there is a radio, What can Justine hear? What meaning does she use?(hearing)

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_    -What is she looking at? What can she watch?(the view)​

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_    -What can she smell?(the smell)

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_    -What can she eat?(taste)

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_    -What can she touch?(le toucher)          _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_         _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ (use a poster to ask these questions)

Warning ! our senses can deceive us, we do not always perceive reality - we must be vigilant!

Another approach: Sorting images

Look for common points between the images, sort them, classify them and then name the class.

 Use of precise vocabulary

View

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Why do we have eyes?

Small experiment in groups of 2 - material: a pen and its cap per group

A pupil hides one eye and holds his pen.  In front of him, a comrade holds the cap. This is to place the cap on the pen.

      => We need both eyes to see the relief (binocular vision)

kim game 

  • Select 5 objects that are part of the students' experience (a book, a bottle, a pencil, a glove, a dice)

describe and identify the objects then remove, add an object without the knowledge of the pupils (cover with a towel for example)​

  • Same exercise with more similar objects (brush, marker, pencil, crayon, pen)

  • Same exercise with identical objects but of different colors (colored pencils)

observation game

  • Distribute 3 then 5 objects in the class - Get a student out - the others must tell him orally (without naming the object) using a precise vocabulary the place of the object removed from the decor in his absence

  • With a card game (7 families) - observe a card chosen by a student, put it back in the game, find the card

  • All kinds of visual discrimination cards

Cooperative course:

one student is blindfolded, the other guides him by voice 

Viewing angles

Discover that an object can appear very differently depending on the angle from which you look at it

Use specific vocabulary: front/front view, side view, back view, top view, bottom view, side view...

 

Propose different views of an object (drawings or photos):

Start with the least easy then gradually display the other views by moving towards the most obvious.

(If a student finds the name of the object, he comes to whisper it in the ear of the teacher)

When the object is revealed, ask the students who quickly found the clues that allowed them to identify the object.

And finally, find out where, in relation to the object,   was the photographer according to the view displayed (you can use the real object to facilitate understanding).

visual illusions

Refine visual perception - interpret an image - develop critical thinking - (we can make an image lie)

  • Files:what do you see, a vase, two faces? which round is bigger? which line is the longest?

how to check: measure? use a layer? a template ?....

  • Experience: on cardboard draw a fish on one side, an aquarium on the other. Place rubber bands on each side of the cardboard, roll up then pull to rotate...

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_        => le mouvement superpose les 2 dessins ce qui gives the illusion that the fish is in the aquarium

  • Chinese shadows: 

With the shadow of a head and the shadow of a hand, you can get the 2 shadows touched even though the head and the hand do not actually touch each other.

You can also make the shadow of an object grow by moving it forward or backward while the size of the object does not change.

  • With a partially hidden image

Propose an image reading by revealing it gradually - make assumptions => point out that we can be wrong if we do not have all the information.

Warning ! our senses can deceive us, we do not always perceive reality - we must be vigilant!

Extension :Plastic compositions

  • the trompe-l'oeil: Visit of the St Gaudérique church for its trompe-l'oeil wall, urban wall

  • the anamorphoses : the duck-rabbit (see wikipedia) - the vase-face (see file)- William Hogarth - MC Escher

  • the hidden patterns: Dali 

  • Arcimboldo: creating faces with fruits and vegetables

Taste

Recognize the 4 main flavors of food (sweet, salty, sour, bitter)

 

Classer- reconnaître - affiner          _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_         _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_         _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_     _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf 58d_        => la bouche 

  • First notion of food sorting: I like, I don't like

Refine by asking why they like it or why they don't like it -> bring out the terms: sweet/salty/bitter/sour

 

  • Experiment:

Show the product with its packaging then taste using a cotton swab for liquids and a teaspoon for solids 

         acide : citron ou vinaigre dilué , granny apple, pickle

         amer : cacao non sucré ou coffee - cucumber, endive, grapefruit

         sucré : eau sucrée - biscuit or candy - melon - strawberries - cherry

         salé : eau salée - biscuit aperitif or chips - roquefort 

​​

The smell

Use the olfactory sense to recognize known foods, experience the role of smell when tasting

 

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Preparatory phase:

  • Distinguish the presence or absence of odor: a bottle of water and a bottle of perfume in the same presentation

  • Appreciate a smell: submit a smellpleasantand a smellunpleasant(fruit / mustard vinegar...) - let the children express themselves - insist on vocabulary (different from good or bad) - learn the wordaroma

Experience :      Recognizing familiar smells

  • Prepare small cups covered with a piece of aluminum foil pierced with small holes with inside: lemon, banana, chocolate, orange, coffee, pickle, apple, pear, anise, cinnamon, pepper, curry, lavender, thyme, rosemary...

        Reconnaître le contenu grâce à l'arôme qui sort par les petits trous .

Role of smell:

Eating a few foods tested at the flavor workshop blindfolded, pinching your nose and then without pinching your nose.

  • what do you feel ? what's going on?   => we perceive with the nose and the mouth

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hearing

Distinguer - reconnaître - réagir - percevoir        _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_          => les oreilles

 

  • Distinguish everyday noises (listening and recognizing a recording: "Little ones listening to sounds")

Everyday noises - very different- then closer sounds

- alarm clock / car / toilet flush / running water / hammer... 

- noises recreating times of the day (+ recreation, canteen, etc.)

  • Recognize the timbre of instruments(kim's game)

tambourine/bells/maracas/triangle/claves....

Show the instrument, make a sound, hide and have the instrument recognized (take turns choosing a student to play the instrument)

  • React to a musical code

we associate a music, a sound with a movement (expl: small piston flute which allows to mimic go up-grow/down-become small)​

nursery rhymes, body expression, find a hummed nursery rhyme

  • Perceive the variations of sounds (rhythm/intensity)

by repetition of clapping: notion of fast/slow - strong/weak ​

in music hearing: notion of fast/slow - loud/weak - low/high - 

Albums en relation avec l'audition musicale :

Touch

Recognize sensations procured by touch(soft, hard, smooth, rough, soft, pungent, dry, wet wet, hot, cold, lukewarm....)

Observer - reconnaître          _cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_         _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_                 _cc 781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_         _cc781905-5cde-3194 => the skin

  • Observe by free manipulation of groups of objectsand use precise vocabulary 

- various materials: cardboard, fabric, powder...

- different volumes and shapes (common objects)

- different consistencies: hard (table, stone)/soft (cushion, marshmallow) - smooth (mirror, plate, table)/rough (lime, bark) - fragile/solid - wet/dry (sponge, cloth) - spicy ( bug, hard brush, Christmas tree)/soft (scarf, comforter, cotton) - grainy (sugar) - gelatinous (currant jelly) - viscous (egg white) - fat (oil, butter) ....

- different weights 

- different temperatures (radiator or hair dryer, ice cube, etc.)

  • Recognize sensations previously felt only by touch:game => hands in the bag

 

For 6 groups of students, 6 opaque plastic bags containing the same material:

- small metal spoon

- small plastic spoon

- small piece of damp sponge

- pieces of polystyrene

- 10x10 square of rolled bristol paper

- 10x10 square of rolled sandpaper

- 10x10 square of soft fabric or square to remove make-up

- etc...

Observe objects, touch them, name them. Close the bags with adhesive tape, leaving only the passage of a child's hand.

Game flow:

The teacher announces "wet sponge!" - one player per team goes in search of the object in the bag - the fastest wins a point for his team - but if he is wrong he loses a point - we change player and start again.

Extension: 

hot water (37°) / cold water / lukewarm water

put the right hand in hot water then in lukewarm water, the left hand in cold water then in lukewarm water

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_  => do we perceive lukewarm water in the same way?

Warning ! our senses can deceive us, we do not always perceive reality - we must be vigilant!

Highlighting the interaction of the 5 senses 

Experience :

Take white powdered foods: salt, powdered sugar, icing sugar, flour, coconut, ...

Arrange them in front of the students in identical containers:

  • Can they recognize and name them all? in sight ? by smell? touch ?

  • Taste the powders

=> the eye is not enough, smell and touch complement vision, taste is essential to recognize the food. (salt/sugar)

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