Objectives
At the end of the session, 90% of the students will be able to:
identify the 4 basic kinds of tastes
give examples on the different kinds of tastes
Subject Matter
Subject: Science
Grade Level: Grade 3
Topic: Kinds of Tastes
Teaching Strategy: Multi- sensory Approach
Materials:
Lemon
Iodized Salt
Ampalaya
Sugar
Vinegar
Coffee Powder
Chocolate
Blindfold
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste
Procedure:
Preliminary Activity
The pupils will be grouped into 4 groups.
Each group will be given different samples which they will identify.
Sample A: Salt and Chippy
Sample B: Chocolate and Sugar
Sample: Coffee Powder and Ampalaya
Sample D: Vinegar and Lemon
They will choose a representative who would be blindfolded.
The members of the group will let the representative to taste the samples given.
The representative will identify the taste of the samples.
Lesson Proper
The teacher will call one representative to describe the taste of each of the samples.
The teacher will present the different kinds of tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter.
The teacher will ask volunteers to give other examples of food which are sweet, salty, sour or bitter.
The teacher will then call 4 other pupils to "act out" the facial expression of a person who has eaten either a sweet, salty, bitter, or sour food and the pupils will guess which kind of taste their classmate has tasted.
Review
The teacher will again present the 4 Kinds of Tastes: sweet, sour, salty, or bitter.
As the teacher reads aloud the description, the pupils will follow after him/ her.
Evaluation
The pupils will group the following foods according to their taste:
raw mango
patis
cotton candy
medicine tablet
cake
tea
salt
vinegar
chocolate
chicharon
Sweet
Sour
Salty
Bitter
Assignment
List down the different kinds of food that you ate for supper/ dinner and identify the taste of each of those foods. Write it in your science notebook.