No Series: Geography with A Sensory Approach

Geography with A Sensory Approach

Lesson Objective: Students learn about rain forests through varied sensory experiences

Grades 6-8 / Geography / Differentiation

5 MIN

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Thought starters

How does the teacher use a variety of sensory experiences to make learning more effective?
What critical thinking skills do you see the students using during this activity?
What opportunities do you see for differentiation in this lesson?

9 Comments

Jocelyn Price Dec 1, 2019 4:23pm

students will need to use their own background knowledge to draw conclusions or infere what the climate is in the Rain Forest. Students were using pictures, sounds, poems, travel brochures in order to determine what the climate could be in the Rain Forest. Students shared out from their individual group findings to see a bigger picture and synthesize new information about the rain forest climate.

It was a great way to use knowledge based compentencies in other contents.

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Andrew Martin Jun 26, 2019 11:00am

What an exciting lesson; I wish I was a student in this class.

Students love using their observation skills to act like little detectives. I can think of many ways to transfer this style of lesson to other topics or content areas.

Thanks for the inspiration!

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Richard Ruffin Aug 24, 2016 11:39pm

Paul: Is the teacher supposed to let the student come away with thinking that the rainforest is dry and cool?

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Richard Ruffin Aug 22, 2016 1:23am

One girl said that the rainforest was "cool and dry," and the teacher said "very good," or some such gibberish. Am I the only one who caught this glaring mistake?

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Jano (Susie) Ch... Sep 28, 2013 10:13pm

Great way to use differentiation instruction with students in learning about other parts of the world. Will be using this with my Social Studies students.

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