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Sense of Touch


Core Learning Experience + Supplies and Equipment

  • ​Set out a collection of exploratory items on the table. Include things that are rough, smooth, squishy, wet, cold (ice), warm (something that has been out in the sun), prickly, etc. Let the children touch and discuss. Encourage discussion by asking open ended questions (questions that can be answered by more information than yes or no).
  • Compare sensations by placing an item on an arm, or cheek, or foot. Do you think the sensation is stronger by touching with your hand, or with your cheek etc?
  • Do the same thing but have the child close eyes and answer.
  • Put some familiar items inside socks, and have the children feel them and guess what they might be.
  • Child closes eyes, and touch child on arm with finger. Have the child try to touch the exact spot where you touched.

Possible/Expected Discoveries

  •  We can feel different sensations on our skin. We can sense touch, pressure and temperature. We have skin all over our body. Our hands are very sensitive to touch.
  • If you were not able to see with your eyes, would your sense of touch be helpful, and why?
  • Do you think it’s possible to drop a marble (or a penny, Cheerio etc) into a paper cup without looking? Try it. Put 3 items in 3 paper cups without looking. Now, in turn, the marble, then the penny, then the Cheerio into 3 paper cups.  How did you know which was which?
  • Compare your sense of touch with your other senses. Which do you think is the most important and helpful to you? Why? Equally helpful?
  • Do you think we could do as well without one or more of our senses? Talk about it and try different tests. Some people are not able to see, or hear, or smell, and scientists have found that those people are able to develop another sense very strongly, to help them understand our world.

Extended Learning and Other Curriculum Areas

  • ​​Obtain a Braille alphabet sheet, or simulate one with dots dried glue. Explain what it is used for, and have the children feel the letters with eyes open and eyes closed.
  • Have an outdoor treasure hunt. Give each child a baggie, and ask them to find something rough, something smooth, something prickly and something wet. Make up your own criteria according to your environment.
  • Have the children make their own tactile board.   Make available a piece of heavy paper or card, and a variety of items with strong sensory qualities. E.g. sponge, foil, sandpaper, bark chips, penny etc. Have the children glue some items to the board, and then when dry, close eyes and guess what the texture is by feeling it with hands.
Preschool science activities - sense of touch
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Find Out By Touching   by Paul Showers
My Bunny Feels Soft   by Charlotte Steiner

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  • Home
  • Lesson Plans Index
    • Life Science Plants and Animals >
      • Comparing Leaves
      • Exploring Pumpkins
      • Shucking Corn
      • Earthworm Observation
      • Parent and Baby Animals
      • Collecting Ants
      • Spider Season
      • Visit to a Pet Store
      • Living and Non Living Things
      • Animals Come in Many Shapes, Sizes and Colors
      • Ways Animals Move
      • Animals Need to Eat
      • Difference Between Wild and Tame Animals
      • People Can Use Products Provided by Animals and Plants
      • Animal Coverings - Hair, Fur, Feathers, Scales and Skin
      • Animals Live in Different Places
      • Metamorphosis and Change in Biology
      • Nocturnal Animals
      • Egg Science
      • Exploring Fish
      • Tree Skin Bark
      • Roots Growing Potatoes in Water
      • Stems - Making Daisy and Clover Chains
      • Flowers
      • Digging in the Dirt
    • Life Science People Index >
      • Parts of Our Body and How We Use Them
      • Our Heart
      • Our Hands
      • Our Feet
      • Fun With Balance
      • Sound Search
      • Sense of Touch
      • Exploring the Sense of Sight
      • Follow That Scent
      • Stop That Germ!
      • Interesting Tools That Doctors Use
      • We Need Healthy Teeth
      • Keep Those Muscles Moving!
    • Physical Science Index >
      • Blowing Bubbles
      • Magnify!
      • Ways to Measure Time
      • Magnetic Attraction
      • Ramps in Motion
      • Ice Melting
      • Sink or Float a Boat
      • Sponges and water
      • Dropping Things Through the Air
      • Static Electricity
      • Battery Electricity
      • Properties of Soap and Water
      • Weights and Balances
      • How Can Heat Change Things?
      • Tools Can Help Us Do Things
      • Lifting with Levers
      • Earth and Sky Science Index >
        • Shadow Chasing
        • Sun Effects
        • The Night Sky
        • Kinds of Clouds
        • Dressing for the Season
        • Classifying Rocks
        • Colors of the Rainbow
        • Who Has Seen the Wind?
        • Rain
        • Snow
        • Litter Hunt
        • We Can Take Care of the Earth
      • Wheels
      • Predicting How Simple Machines Will Work
      • Computers and Other Devices
      • Discoveries With Straws
      • Different Ways of Making Light
  • Teaching Notes
  • Links
  • Contact