Music Integration Lesson Plan The Five Senses

Integration of Science + Music

Bridget Curtis
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Time: 1 hour 1 hour and 30 minutes
Materials

Smart board
o Image of child with senses
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercisesmaker/uploads/images/363520/original-333896-1.jpg

o Song
Sensory center
o Taste: salty chips, oranges
o Smell: coffee, play dough
o Touch: sand, various pasta
o Hearing: various musical instruments
o Sight: happening with other senses
My Five Senses worksheet
http://www.worksheetfree.com/postpic/2012/09/pre-k-five-senses-worksheet_522118.jpg

My Five Senses song

http://www.drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2009/06_Jun/1handouts/01_SeptemberLyrics.pdf

Objectives

Procedure

Students will identify the fives senses

Students will relate five senses to appropriate body part
Students will explore their fives senses through sensory activities
Students will describe each item after they explore it
Students will recall and record items of sensory exploration
Students will review the five senses and their appropriate body parts
through song
Ask students if they know what the fives senses are, what they do, and
what body parts we use for them
Bring image of child with the fives senses onto smart board
Discuss with students each sense and the appropriate body part; ask
students for examples of each sense (ex: smell flowers, taste cookies).
While discussing, have children point to their mouth, nose, hands,
ears, and eyes.
Introduce sensory activity
Students will receive individual trays for items to be placed on
First, give each student salty chips and lemons to be tasted. Ask them
to describe how each tastes and record their descriptions on the
board.

Give each student coffee and play dough to smell. Ask them to
describe how each smells and record their descriptions on the board.
Give each student tree bark, sand, and feathers. Ask them to describe
how each feels and record their descriptions on the board.
Give each student some sandpaper and an instrument. Ask them to
describe how each sounds and recorded their descriptions on the
board.
Ask students why there are no objects for sight.
Introduce the My Five Senses worksheet. Working through each sense
on by one, ask students to recall the objects they tasted, smelled,
heard, and felt. For each sense, have students draw and label one item
they explored. *Sight- can see all items explored.
o Example: Ask, Class, what sense was used when exploring the
salty chips and lemons? Students, Taste. Ask, Class, what
body part do we use for our sense of taste? Students, Our
mouth/tongue! Then have students draw and label the salty
chips and lemons in their chart under taste.
o For sight, they may draw any of the objects.
o Do this process for all five senses.
To review, introduce the song about the five senses to the tune of
B-I-N-G-O:

I have five senses that I use (Hold up 5 fingers.)

to help me learn each day.
See, hear, smell, taste, touch.
(Point to eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and then hold up hands.)
See, hear, smell, taste, touch.
See, hear, smell, taste, touch,
I use them every day.
My five senses help me learn,
Theyre pathways to my brain.
See, hear, smell, taste, touch,
See, hear, smell, taste, touch.
See, hear, smell, taste, touch,
Theyre pathways to my brain.
**(Edited from original version for class purposes)

Teaching Tips:
Be knowledgeable about allergies of children prior to sensory
activities and have a back up plan for different items.
Keep the image of the child with her senses up as a visual for the
whole lesson.
If class does very well with the song, can make it more challenging
and take our a sense each time and replace with a clap.
For assistance with song, can use Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVQxF3hH74
Common Core Standards
Music:
A.4.2 Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation
A.4.5 Sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and
responding to the cues of the conductor
F.4.6 Respond through purposeful physical movement to selected prominent music
characteristics or to specific music events while listening to music
Science:
F.4.6 Respond through purposeful physical movement to selected prominent music
characteristics or to specific music events while listening to music