The sense of feeling using texture vocabulary

Last week we dove head first into our science unit on magnets. In order to properly investigate as scientist, we had to explore a little about the scientific process. After discovering that scientist begin with a question, they make a prediction (or hypothesis) and then test to discover an answer. One thing we focused on was how we describe our findings (or observations) to others. We really need to use our five senses in order to properly describe our observations. A key element we need is vocabulary. Ms. Wilker came in to help us build some of our vocabulary around the sense of feeling. We learned all about different textures and words we can use to explain those textures to others.

We started with a little game where someone reached into a box and had to describe what they felt:

Once we completed this activity, and had added many texture words to our vocabulary, everyone got to create their very own hand with different items on each finger and texture words to describe those items: 

While working on this lesson we made some awesome connections to our reading on Louise Braille and Helen Keller. We shared about how people who are blind use their sense of feeling to explore the world. Many people who cannot see must have awesome texture vocabulary and the ability to picture people and things around them with their sense of touch. Therefore, this was also a great lesson to prepare us for our field trip to Dorina Nowill.