Dog sense

Overview

Using this Resource

Connecting to the Curriculum

Marking Student Responses

Working with Students

This task is about identifying a dog’s sense organs.

Question Change answer

The arrows show where a dog can receive information through its five main senses.
Write the name of each sense on the line provided.

Task administration:

This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online.

NOTE: for this task students need to use the "text" (to type words) and "select shape" (to move the words) buttons on the drawing tool palette.

Level:

Curriculum info:

Keywords:

Description of task:

Task: students write the sense related to various parts of a dog's body. Assessment focus: sensory organs.

Making Better Sense:

Answers/responses:

		Y6 (10/1997)
a) b) c) d) e)	Sound/hearing 4 Smell Taste Touch/Feel	5 correct - moderate 4 correct - easy 1-3 correct - easy

Diagnostic and formative information:

133 Year 6 students trialled this resource. Their scripts were analysed for common errors.

15 students named an animal part instead of the sense. (They all did this consistently over all five senses. For example, for sight, student wrote 'eye'.)
For two senses, taste and touch, some students named an action. For example, for taste, students wrote 'eating'.

Next steps:

Model correct language and ask questions to develop students' vocabulary so they can differentiate between the sense, the action and the body part.