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The Five Senses: Smell Organizing Topic Overview Related Standards of Learning K.1a; K.2a, b Objectives Investigating the Five Senses The students should be able to • smell an unknown odor and find its match; • describe unknown smells; • match their senses to a corresponding sense organ. Materials needed • Popped popcorn in a brown paper bag • An even number of film canisters — one per student • Cotton balls — one per film canister • Extracts — lemon, peppermint, cinnamon • Spices — onion, ginger, curry, pepper, garlic • Other pungent odors — cocoa, perfume, baby powder • Picture cards of things that have good and bad smells Instructional activity Students use their sense of smell to describe and match odors. Content/Teacher Notes One of our strongest senses is our sense of smell. We use our nose to smell. Smells can change our attitude about a place or situation. Smells can make us cringe or even bring back memories. Some animals use their sense of smell to locate their babies. To prepare the canisters, label half of them with letters A through M, and half with numbers 1 through 13. In each lettered canister place the cotton ball and a few drops of the odor. For each lettered canister, make a match. When you are finished, you should have a pair of lettered and numbered canisters that matches by smell. You may want to make a key for your own reference showing the matching letters and numbers. Safety Note: Teach children to waft — wave the smell from a canister. Smelling directly from a canister can be dangerous; wafting is a safer way to smell odors. Introduction 1. Teach the children the song “Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth” (to the Tune of “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”): Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth, Nose and Mouth, Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth, Nose and Mouth, Hands and Fingers make the Five, Eyes, Ears, Nose and Mouth, Nose and Mouth! 2. Talk about today’s sense: SMELL. Ask: What do we use to smell? 3. Have students close their eyes. Open the bag of popcorn, and wave it under their noses. Talk about what they smell. Ask: What might be in the “mystery” bag today? Procedure 1. Randomly pass out the canisters, one to each student. Demonstrate safe smelling — wafting.
2. Explain the game and how to play: • On the count of 3, open your canister. • Smell it and think about it. • On the count of 5, walk around and find someone that has a match to your smell. Use your nose and not your mouth to find this match! • When you think you have a match, sit down with your partner, and talk about what you smelled. Talk about what the smell might be called. 3. Play the game. Observations and Conclusions 1. Watch and listen as the children play the game. 2. Notice how they describe their smell and what they think might be giving off the odor. 3. Come together as a class, and list some of the words the students used to describe their smells. Talk about the nose and how it sends messages back to your brain. 4. Show pictures (see next three pages) to children, and have them vote (thumbs up or down) to tell if it shows a good or bad smell. Sample assessment • Have students draw their noses and then complete a two-box drawing of things that smell good and things that do not smell good (see p. 7). Follow-up/extension • Send home brown paper bags for families to play “mystery object,” using only their sense of smell. One person places a mystery object in the bag, and another person smells the object and uses this information to try to guess the mystery object. Resources • Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12. National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). http://www.nsta.org/ostbc. • Search for Literature: Literature for Science and Mathematics. California Department of Education. http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/sc/ll/ap/searchlist.asp. Web site with searchable database.
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