There’s nothing like tempting a student’s taste buds to make a science unit deliciously interesting. Onekama School first grade teacher Kelly Lyman recently completed a unit on the Five Senses with her first grade students, which culminated in making applesauce together.

Students used their sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch over a week of lessons that helped them to investigate the world around them through their senses. During the cross-curricular unit, students also compared and graphed apples, read and wrote stories about apples, and finally worked together to prepare the applesauce.

The first grade students weren’t the only ones to have their senses awakened with this hands-on project. The smell of baked apples that wafted through the school building was almost as wonderful as the smiles on the faces of the class of first graders.