Five Senses - The Sense of Smell

 
In Science, we are discovering how keen our sense of smell is. Students were given cups numbered from 1to 4. Inside each cup was vinegar, vanilla, coffee, and lemons. Children used their sense of smell in order to predict what was in each cup and then drew their predictions in their journals.

In this pictures, K was trying to determine if it was a sweet smell or sour smell.

 Student predictions were sketched into their Science journals.





Children discovered that the sweet things were generally things that they liked.

 It wasn't as easy as it looked. Students had conversations and rethought some of their responses. Some were convinced that they knew what was in the cup, until the foil was removed and they saw what they were smelling.