by Lisa Dickson

Education 280-1002
Multicultural Lesson Plan
 English Language Arts Standards-- Speaking
& Listening--Kindergarten

 Students will be able to identify and

describe the five senses
 Encourage social relationships to promote
openness to and interest in others’
differences and willingness to include others
in school and social activities.

 Students will be able to identify and describe

that anyone no matter their race, culture, or
sex, has and uses the five senses, finding
similarities in everyone.
 Auditory- Listening to the teacher present the
lesson. Listening to their partner in the pair off
section. Listening to other students during the
discussion. Listening to directions. Listen to the
video. Listening to the song.
 Visual- Look at the teacher. Watch the video.
Look at your partner. Look at other students as
they are sharing. Look at body parts as we think
and learn about our senses.
 Kinesthetic-Raise your hand with the answer.
Move with your partner when you pair off put
knees together. Get into a group together.
Moving actions to the song.
 Musical- We will be watching a song video
and we will be singing Head, Shoulders,
Knees and Toes.
 "Think-Pair-Share.“ Chart
 White board markers
 Five senses worksheet.
 One worksheet of each of the senses for group
activity.
 Mirror
 A paper folded in six squares and then
unfolded for each student
 The Five Senses video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXiyIGqliE
Introduction
 (10 minutes)
 Tell the students you are going to talk about
their five senses.
 Ask students to give you a thumbs up if they
can name the five senses.
 Review the senses and what they do, then
sing the “Head, shoulders, knees and toes.”
 Have students listen once to the words, then
sing the song again and encourage them to
join in with the singing.
Mini Lesson
 (25 minutes)
 Give the students the chance to participate in a peer conversation about the five
senses using the Think-Pair-Share protocol. Review the rules: "Think-Pair-Share."
◦ Sit knee to knee with a partner
◦ Take turns
◦ Listen to your partner
 If students are not familiar with the protocol, model engaging in a collaborative
conversation with a student volunteer. Model active listening by maintaining eye
contact. Remind students to limit their discussion to the topic that is being
discussed.
 Make sure all students are facing a partner. At your signal, allow students silent
think time to consider what they know about their five senses. Then, instruct
students to take turns sharing with their partner what they know.
 Call the group back together. Choose student volunteers to share their own or
their partner's thinking. Record student thoughts on the board.
 Prompt students to name a sense and which body part is used with that sense.
Encourage students to build on one another's thinking by asking them to provide
examples of ways that each sense is used. "I use my ears to hear. I listen to
music." or "I use my nose to smell. I smell delicious cookies baking in the oven.”
 Notice what children have senses. “Do boys/girls have senses?” or “Does the color
of skin effect the senses?” or “Does the language you speak effect your taste?” or
“Do the color of your eyes effect how you see?”
 Watch Video The Five Senses. Tell students to pay attention to other ways that the
five senses are used that are not already included on the board.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXiyIGqliE
Guided Practice
 (15 minutes)

 Make five groups with your students.

 Assign one of the senses to each group. That group will be
in charge of completing the worksheet that goes with their
sense and reporting back to the class.
 Review the rules for group work time: 1) Talk to your
group about the topic 2) Listen to others 3) Take turns
 Allow students time to complete the worksheet with their
group. Remind students to talk about what they learned on
the video, as well as what they already knew about their
five senses as they work. Group members should take
turns to draw as many items as possible on each
worksheet.
 Call the whole group back together. Allow each group a
few minutes to share their poster with the class.
Independent working time
 (20 minutes)
 Have students complete the My Five Senses
worksheets on their own.
 Once all the students have completed the
worksheet, have them compare their
response with a partner. Encourage students
to justify their thinking by explaining why
they matched each sense with each picture.
Ask students to consider whether there could
be more than one correct way to match the
pictures.
Assessment
 (15 minutes)
 Give each student a folded piece of paper.
 Ask students to draw a picture for each sense
in each box. They should make sure to
include the names of the senses.
 To close out the lesson, have the students
review the five senses by calling out each
sense all together as they point to the
associated body part.
 Educational Games, Worksheets, and More for
Kids. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.education.com/
 English Language Arts Standards » Speaking &
Listening » Kindergarten. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-
Literacy/SL/K/
 The Kiboomers - Kids Music Channel. (2017,
February 23). Five Senses Song | Song for Kids |
The Kiboomers. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXiyIGqliE
 Manning, M. , Lee, Baruth, L. , G., & Lee, G. , Lea.
(2017). Multicultural Education of Children and
Adolescents. Routledge.
 1.The Five Senses. Learning what part of the body allows
each sense. What each sense is.
 2. That even though students are different the senses are
the same with each student. It doesn’t matter your culture,
race, color or sex senses are the same.
 3. I feel like getting in and out of groups takes extra time
but lets the kids move. I feel like when they work in groups
and with a partner then they learn from each other not just
from the teacher. We had different music in the lesson to
help children learn a different way.
 4. Strengths are for kinetic learners and music learners.
Very active lesson that keeps moving.
 Weaknesses the students could get done at different times
leaving children bored. If you prefer to learn out of a book
it might be a hard lesson for you.