Our Senses: Home

• Tasty Poem
• The Beagle: A nose that always knows
• Light and Shadows

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• recognising senses are used to learn about the world around us: our eyes to detect light, our ears to detect sound, and touch to feel vibrations
• identifying the sun as a source of light
• recognising that objects can be seen when light from sources is available to illuminate them
• exploring different ways to produce sound using familiar objects and actions such as striking, blowing, scraping and shaking
• comparing sounds made by musical instruments using characteristics such as loudness, pitch and actions used to make the sound

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Equipment in Primary Science for light: Newton's colour wheels, prisms, light box, optical set, mirrors, light box, torches, colour paddles, colour-mixing glasses

Equipment in Primary Science for sound:

tuning forks