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Lesson
The Sense of Taste Date December 5th, 2017
Title/Focus
1:05-1:40, extending into
Subject/Grade Time science the next day as
Kindergarten Science
Level Duration necessary; 15 minute Centre
extensions

Unit The Five Senses Teacher Mr. Spangler

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning The child demonstrates curiosity, interest and a willingness to learn
Outcomes: about the environment and community.
Specific - Becomes aware of the five senses and how they are used to explore, investigate and
Learning describe the world
Outcomes:
- Explores and investigates objects and events in the environment

- Shows awareness of similarities and differences in living things, objects and materials
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. Be introduced to the biology of taste and demonstrate an understanding of the function of the tongue.
2. Experience and demonstrate understanding of Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Spicy tastes by comparing tastes and
completing a cut and sort activity.
3. Compare how animals taste to how humans taste
ASSESSMENTS
Observations: Formative assessment throughout the lesson in the form of observation and questions
A performance task of a picture cut and sort activity of food
Key Questions: How do we taste?
What tastes can we taste?
How do other animals taste?
Products/Performances:
LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
https://www.education.com/download-pdf/science- Tasting by Robin Nelson
fair/91780/ Various foods
https://learn360.infobase.com/p_ViewVideo.aspx?
xtid=60284&loid=303907&tScript=0
PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson Prepare various foods for the centre activity:
Sour: lemon pieces, sour patch kids, and jube jubes.
Bitter: the example of bitter medicine, grapefruit, and
broccoli
Salty: Salty popcorn, pretzels, potato chips
Spicy: Barbecue chips, cinnamon hearts
Sweet: Cupcakes, Marshmallows, smarties, and caramel

Introduction Time
Attention Grabber Call attention to the class and have them come
to the carpet for learning.
Expectations for
Kindergarten, show me that you are ready
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Learning and Behaviour
Assessment of Prior
Learning Knowledge
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Learning Activity #1
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to learn about science by focusing your
senses on me. I want your eyes on me,
your mouths closed, and your ears
listening.
Can anyone remember what sense we
learned about last week?
How do we smell?
- Our nose sends signals to our brain.
- We learned there were little pieces
of in the air called particles, some of
which smell, that our noses smell 5 minutes
and then send signals to the brain.
- Today, we are going to learn about
another sense that often works with
our sense of smell called our sense
of taste.
Today, we will be learning about another
sense closely linked to our sense of
smell, our sense of taste. Its one of my
favourites. I probably practice it a little
too much.
Okay, lets start by learning how we taste, Kindergarten.
Body Time
3 minutes
Activity #1: How do we Taste/Taste Buds
Hands up Kindergarten. Who can tell me
what we taste with?
Thats right, taste with our mouths. Is
there a part in our mouth that we use in
particular?
Show picture of the mouth
We taste with tiny little things in are
mouth called taste buds. They are all over
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our mouth, on our cheeks and the roof of

our mouth, but most of them are located
on our tongue.
2 minutes

Show picture of the taste buds

Activity #2: Find Your Partners Taste

Buds

Normally we dont stick our tongues out,

Kindergarten, but today we are going to
look at our friends tongues to try and see
their taste buds.

When I say go, I would like you to find a

partner sitting beside you. On the count
of three, youre going to stick your
tongues out and look at your partners
tongue for the bumps that are their taste
buds.

Check to see that everyone is focusing

and watching. Instruct partners to take
turns if the exercise is not effective.

Activity #3: Interactive Map of Taste

The Science of Taste:

Kindergarten, come back to me. Point to

the interactive mouth on the smart board
from edumedia: http://www.edumedia-
sciences.com/en/media/478-the-sense-of-
taste.

So, we have these taste buds. When we

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eat things, little pieces, made up of

particles break down in the watery stuff
in our mouth, called our saliva. Our taste
buds figure out the little pieces and send
a signal to the brain telling us how what
were eating tastes. This helps keep us
safe by keeping us from eating things
that can hurt us.

Do you think our sense of taste is as

strong as our sense of smell?

Teacher Notes: Assessments/ Check to ensure that E is not talking or leaning against the wall, as she will
Differentiation start to fall asleep. If Dar or Da are having difficulty focusing, give them the
option of sitting on their wiggly chairs.

Check for comprehension with questions and provide support and

corrective feedback if students arent understanding. Within my class
instruction, I will engage all students by incorporating visual, auditory, and
kinesthetic learning activities.
Learning Activity #2
Activity #4: How Do Animals Taste

Drag and expose pictures of the animals

on the smartboard as you talk about each
one.

Do you think that we eat and taste food

the same way that other animals do?

Who do you think has the best sense of

taste?

Humans do not have the best sense of

taste. That means that other animals
have more taste buds and are better at
tasting different foods and figuring out
what foods are in their mouths.

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Fish have taste buds on this part, called

their fin, and on their gills. They have a lot
more than humans do. Catfish have the
most taste buds of any animal.

Insects have a lot of taste buds, but they

dont have as many in their mouths. What
part of their body do you think they have
their taste buds in?

They actually have them on their feet and

the antennae by their faces. When a fly
lands on you, it is tasting you with its
feet!

Activity #4: Four Tastes Food Party

The Four main tastes we will be learning

about:

There are four main tastes we will be

learning about. All the things that you can
eat are made up of some combination of
sour, sweet, salty, and bitter.

In our centre time, were going to get a

chance to try a lot of different foods with
these tastes. Right now, Im going to give
you a little taste of each.

Bitter:

The first food that we have is bitter. I

didnt bring anything bitter for you to try
because the foods dont usually taste
very good, especially to kids your age.
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A good example is medicine. Have

mommy or daddy ever given medicine to
you with a spoon. If you didnt like it and
could really taste it, that taste was
probably bitter.

Dark chocolate is also a strong bitter

taste.

Poison is also a bitter food.

Why do you think that poison might be

bitter?

Sour:

A good example of sour is a little piece of

lemon. This is very strong, Kindergarten.
You dont have to eat it. Just try a taste.

Pass out a piece of lemon to each child.

Salty:

Salty foods have lots of salt. There is

usually a lot of salt on French fries.
Another salty food is popcorn. Ive got
some popcorn for you to try here today.

Pass out a Dixie Cup of popcorn for each

child to have.

Sweet:

Sweet foods have lots of sugar. Most of

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our Halloween candy tastes sweet.

Another good example of sweet food is
cake. Cake is very sweet food. To show
you sweet, I am going to pass out some
cupcakes for us to try.

What Tastes Can We Brainstorm:

Kindergarten, I would like us to think

about the different tastes we have had.
Pay attention to the different kinds of
tastes as I read.

Read the sense book on taste.

We learned about a lot of tastes in our

book, Kindergarten. Now, I want to see if
we can name some of the tastes we
really dont like.

- Make an anchor chart of tastes the

class doesnt like.
1) Sour milk
2) Spicy Foods
3) Salmon

Good Tastes:
1) Banana
2) Orange
3) Cake

Teacher Notes: Assessments/ Ensure that the food is hidden from view before and after tasting prior to
Differentiation starting a discussion about the tastes, as students will not be able to focus
with the excitement and distraction.
Learning Activity #3 Small Centre Lesson:

Instruct students to cut out the pictures on their sort. Help cut and provide
assistance to anyone having difficulty.

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Teacher Notes: Assessments/
Differentiation
Consolidation of
Learning:
Feedback From Students:
Feedback To Students
Transition To Next
Lesson
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Activity/Activities
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Salt or Sugar?
Put salt and sugar on opposite sides on a piece of brown paper towel
Ask students if they know which is which from looking at it or smelling it? It
is very hard to tell apart. Lets try a little taste to see which is which.
Terrific Taste Tests Cut and Sort:
Provide specific foods for students to taste and help them sort and glue the
foods into the correct categories. Provide samples of the base comparisons
from the lesson as necessary.
Discuss the following taste facts if pertinent:
We use our tongue for speaking.
Our tongues are bumpy on top so that food wont slide around when we are
eating.
You are born with about 10,000 taste buds. The number of taste buds that
you have gets smaller as you get older and lose your sense of taste.
Ensure that all foods are nut free and do not give spicy food to students who
are sensitive to hot foods.
Closure Time
Kindergarten, thank you for learning about our sense of taste. We learned
that taste buds in our mouth and on our tongue touch little pieces of food
in our saliva and send signals to the brain. This afternoon, we will be
testing taste knowledge as we explore and sort different foods by taste.
Ask the students if they have a favourite taste.
Thank you so much for a terrificly tasty lesson!
Transition to Ms. Glasman
Connect the Five Senses Worksheet Activity
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