Once the class returns to the classroom, have students brainstorm by describing what they experienced, describing their trip. Discuss how they learn from seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting. The teacher develops a word bank or a chart using student responses. Tell students that at the learning centers they will complete many different activities that will help them learn more about how humans learn. At the Art Center students cut out pictures from magazines that show people using the five senses.
Students supply the words.
The teacher writes the words on a chart for students to use for this lesson and subsequent lessons. At the Mathematics Center students sort objects by color, size, shape, texture, etc. Students use the laminated pictures of the body organs that represent the five senses to show that the number five has other names such as two plus three and one plus four. Using the pictures to group, the students show that one plus four is the same as four plus one. Using cube counters, the students show that one row of five red cubes matches a row of four white and one yellow, three brown and two black, etc.