A 5-day lesson plan introducing the Sense of Taste and different gustatory flavors. Includes square shape cutting and hunt activities, tongue craft, and lemonade making.
What children learn
- Understand that the tongue and its taste buds provide the gustatory sense of taste and also help with speech.
- Identify and describe sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savoury (umami) tastes.
- Classify foods and tasting liquids by flavour.
- Compare foods that look or feel alike by tasting them.
- Recognise and create squares through cutting, construction, sensory hunts, and mosaic work.
Key activities
- Mirror exploration of the tongue and tongue craft
- Blindfolded taste test with five-taste flashcards
- Adding the taste page to My Senses Book and reading *The Fox and the Grapes*
- Food shopping and classification followed by mystery tasting bottles
- Salt-and-sugar comparison and taste-themed Show and Tell
- Making lemonade and creating a square mosaic
You’ll need
tongue picture and cut-out, mirrors, blindfolds, five-taste flashcards, assorted foods, food basket, salt water, sugar water, cocoa water, lemon water and soy sauce, senses books and magazines, bowls and droppers, lemons and lemonade ingredients, square flashcards and paper pieces
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.