This project enables kindergartners to examine, describe and distinguish specific sensory experiences. They begin to understand the relationship of the skeleton to parts of the body. Units on taste, touch and feel, movement and motion, and simple cause and effect experiments encourage students to investigate how they relate to their environment. Hands-on activities familiarize students with the five senses and specific body parts and how they function. The class creates individual butcher block paper tracings with muscles and skeletal components identified.
Activities help students realize how vital their senses are.
They recognize their unique qualities and common physiology. This project focuses on the scientific aspects of the body and, as a bonus, strengthens student self concepts. Math is used to measure body parts and make comparisons, while language carries the newly acquired vocabulary into reading and spelling activities in the classroom. The project teaches young learners that science is in everything they do.