12 Games and Activities to Teach Children about the Five Senses Last fall I did an All About Me unit with my boys, JZ (5) and J-Bug (3). Our favorite activities were the games we played to learn about the five senses. Click on the link above each photo to be taken to the post: Our favorite books for learning about the five senses available on Amazon: More ideas for an All About Me Unit: Developing an eagle eye In this recorded webinar, Andrea Soanes and Lyn Rogers look at the importance of observation as a fundamental aspect of the nature of science and explore relevant activities on the Science Learning Hub. The webinar was designed to inspire teachers to actively look for opportunities to build students’ observation skills. The focus is on how to use observation to engage students in science and to build their understandings of the nature of science whilst developing science capabilities. Developing an eagle eye Video recording of the 'Developing an eagle eye' webinar. Watching the recorded webinar creates an opportunity for participants to engage with some simple observation activities and ideas, and it discusses how these can be used to foster students’ curiosity about their world. Thank you so much! The PowerPoint and recorded webinar provide ideas and information that will support teachers of any year level to: PD – gets the brain churning and excited. Index Developing an eagle eye PowerPoint
Introduction Welcome to the Brain and Senses! Hi, we are Dr Ellen Poliakoff and Dr Luke Jones and we’re experimental psychologists. This means that we find out how people think and how the brain works. When we are not teaching – or lecturing as it’s called at University! Luke’s research Do you find that time passes quickly when you are having fun, but crawls along slowly when you have to do something boring? We think that we have an internal clock in our brains that we use to answer questions like these: How long did the event last for? How long will it be until something happens? How long ago did it happen? How well do we remember how long something lasted for? I’m particularly interested in finding out lots more about the latter. Ellen’s research We often take our movements for granted, because most of the time we don’t have to think about what we are doing. I am doing some research into Parkinson’s disease – an illness that affects the brain and makes it difficult to move.