Sense-ational Science Day 4

Today we focused on the sense of touch. So after Gratitude Circle, we played “That’s my stick!” (they found a stick, memorized length, bumps, etc and then eyes closed passed everyone’s stick in a circle and had to feel for their stick). Then we discussed how the sense of touch works and how some animals feel through their whiskers, antennae or tentacles. Next we did a few quick challenges with proprioception (muscle memory).  For example, mark an X on a paper. Next, raise your pencil hand above your head, close your eyes, and make a dot as close to the X as possible. Open your eyes and check your success.

Next in teams, we played “Find that Object” where they had to match specific shapes to a board using only their sense of touch.  

Then we split into three groups and rotated through stations. There was an “Are your hands as accurate as thermometers?” station, a station called “Spider’s web” (can you determine the source of vibration in a string web as a spider would) and a “Feel it, Draw it” station with a partner drawing a simple image on your back that you have to redraw on paper.

Then we had snack, playwriting and obstacle course and they did a “Build it Blindfolded Challenge” in teams. Using sticks and balls they built a cube using eyesight first and then without. We also did a second round of building a triangle blindfolded. 

The last activity involved using Braille to make a bookmark with their name and/or secret messages using the Braille alphabet. 

Then we ate lunch, went to the creek. It started raining at the creek so we came back a bit early and played Bibbity Bibbity Bop, Warm Wind and Observation before dismissal.