Teaching Lightning Bolt Books™
Your Amazing Senses
TM
K–2nd Grade Interest Level
2nd Grade Reading Level
Titles in this series:
What Is Hearing?
What Is Sight?
What Is Smell?
What Is Taste?
What Is Touch?
Standards
Writing
• Demonstrates competence in the general skills and
strategies of the writing process
• Gathers and uses information for research purposes
Physical Science
• Understands the structure and properties of matter
Reading
• Demonstrates competence in the general skills and
strategies of the reading process
• Demonstrates competence in the general skills and
strategies for reading a variety of informational texts
Nature of Science
• Understands the nature of scientific inquiry
Multiple Intelligences Utilized
Linguistic, logical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalistic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal
ISBN 978-0-7613-5464-2
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TEACHING
YOUR AMAZING SENSES
Lesson 1
How to Use an Index
Materials
• Your Amazing Senses series
• Reading Skills Checklist p. 4
• Index Search p. 5
• pencils
• crayons
Prepare
• Copy Index Search p. 5 for each
student.
Pretest
• What is an index?
• Why do you use an index?
• How do you find words in an index?
Read
• Read one book from the Your
Amazing Senses series.
Lesson 2
Senses Collage
Materials
• Your Amazing Senses series
• magazines
• large construction paper
• scissors
• glue
• Senses Unit Evaluation p. 8
Prepare
• Collect magazines for students to
cut pictures from.
Pretest
• Hold up any classroom object
(e.g., a pencil).
Purpose
Students will learn how to use an index.
Model
• Turn to page 32 in the book
chosen. Explain to students that
this is the index. Tell students
that the index has a list of the
book’s important words and ideas
and that it gives you the page
number(s) where they can be
found. Point out that the words
are listed in alphabetical order.
• Demonstrate how to find the words
listed in the index in the text.
Practice
• Students complete Index Search
p. 5:
Step 1 Turn to the index on
page 32. Choose five
words, and write them
in the column labeled
“Word or Idea.”
Step 2 In the column labeled
“Page #,” write the page
number where the word
is found.
Step 3 In the column labeled
“My Words,” students
describe in their own
words the idea found on
that page.
Discuss
• How does an index make it easier
to find things?
Evaluate
• Use Index Search and Reading
Skills Checklist to evaluate
student understanding.
Purpose
Students will create collages of objects that
they use their five senses to identify.
• Which of your senses do you use
to identify this object?
• Do this with several objects from
around the room.
Read
• Read the books in the Your
Amazing Senses series.
Model
• Choose one of the five senses.
• Demonstrate how to find
pictures in magazines that can
be identified using the sense you
chose.
• Cut out appropriate pictures and
glue them onto the construction
paper.
Practice
• Divide the class into five groups.
Assign each group one of the five
senses—hearing, seeing, smelling,
tasting, or touching.
• Give each group one piece of
large construction paper.
• Each group should search for
pictures of things that they can
identify using the sense they were
assigned.
• Students cut out the pictures and
glue them onto the construction
TEACHING
Lesson 2
Senses Collage
paper, filling the entire paper.
Discuss
• Have each group present its
collage to the class.
• Are there some objects that
Lesson 3
Senses Riddles
Materials
• Your Amazing Senses series
• Five Senses p. 6
• Senses Riddle p. 7
• Senses Unit Evaluation p. 8
• construction paper
• glue
• pencils
• crayons, colored pencils, or
markers
• scissors
Prepare
• Copy Five Senses p. 6 for each
student.
• Copy Senses Riddle p. 7 for every
two students.
• Create a riddle for demonstration.
(See directions under “Practice.”)
Pretest
• Why do we need our five senses?
YOUR AMAZING SENSES
(continued)
appear on more than one group’s
sense collage? Why?
• Use Senses Unit Evaluation p. 8
to assess understanding.
Evaluate
• Collect collages and observe
presentations for understanding.
Purpose
Students will write a riddle describing an
object using all five of their senses.
• What can we do with our five
senses?
Read
(student)
• Read the Your Amazing Senses
books.
Model
• Read your riddle to the class.
• Have students guess what object
your riddle describes.
Practice
• Each student needs to think of
one object that can be described
using all five senses.
• Using Five Senses p. 6, students
describe their objects. Students
should meet with the teacher to
discuss their descriptions.
• Using Senses Riddle p. 7, students
write a riddle describing their
object using their five senses.
• Fold a piece of construction
paper in half. Place it
horizontally or so that it opens
from the bottom. When
completed, glue Senses Riddle
on the front of the folded
construction paper.
• Open the construction paper.
On the inside, write the answer
to the riddle and draw a picture
of the object.
Discuss
• Share riddles with the class.
• Post riddles on a bulletin board
to share with others.
Evaluate
• Use Senses Unit Evaluation
p. 8 to assess each student’s
understanding of the five senses.
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Reading Skills Checklist
Teaching Your Amazing Senses
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Name
Date
Index Search
Word or Idea Page #
Teaching Your Amazing Senses
My Words
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Five Senses
Name_ ___________________________________ Date_________________________
Directions: Think of any object. Write the name of the object below.
Describe the object using your five senses.
Name of my object_ ______________________________________________________
My object sounds like____________________________________________________ .
My object smells like______________________________________________________ .
My object looks like______________________________________________________ .
My object tastes like_ _____________________________________________________ .
My object feels like_______________________________________________________ .
Teaching Your Amazing Senses
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Senses Riddle
It sounds like______________________________________________________________.
It looks like________________________________________________________________.
It smells like_______________________________________________________________.
It tastes like_ ______________________________________________________________.
It feels like_ _______________________________________________________________.
What is it?
Senses Riddle
It sounds like______________________________________________________________.
It looks like________________________________________________________________.
It smells like_______________________________________________________________.
It tastes like_ ______________________________________________________________.
It feels like_ _______________________________________________________________.
What is it?
Teaching Your Amazing Senses
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Senses Unit Evaluation
Name_____________________________________ Date__________________________
Directions: Use the list of objectives below to evaluate student understanding. Add your own
objectives for numbers seven through ten.
Mastered Developing
Needs Improvement
1. Participated in discussions
3
2
1
2. Inferred information from the text
3
2
1
3. Was able to use an index
3
2
1
4. Was able to name the five senses
3
2
1
5. Was able to name the parts of the body
associated with each of the five senses
3
2
1
6. Described an object using all five senses
3
2
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7. 3
2
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8. 3
2
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9. 3
2
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10. 3
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