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Our Academy for Witches and Wizards 3 What You Need Resource 1: Waking the Senses (Whiteboard Slides) • Plasma screen or interactive whiteboard • Magic-themed music • Glow sticks • Chimes • Fresh aromatic herbs such as mint or a scented cream • Jelly • Popping candy or powder • Camera or device to take photographs and/or videos Further Suggestions Change the stimuli Sight Darken the room and use a glitter mirror ball to stimulate the eyes. Sound Use a recording of an owl hooting or an owl musical whistle. Touch Add jelly sweets, such as worms, to the jelly to allow your learners to progress to exploring and experiencing more textures. Taste Make your own slimy lime jelly with the learners or experiment with colours and flavours to smell, feel or taste. Smell Invite your learners to smell witch-hazel gel or cream. Areas of Learning Post-Primary Environment and Society Mathematics Learning Activity 1 2 Our Academy for Witches and Wizards Sorcerer Sense Setting the Scene Sorcerer Sense is a lesson that you could deliver each morning to help stimulate the senses and encourage your learners to be more alert and engaged throughout the day’s planned activities. The lesson incorporates Resource 1: Waking the Senses. This presentation takes each learner through a range of stimuli to awaken the five senses. Use magical textures, tastes, sounds, smells and visual aids as prompts and cues. Play magic-themed music in the background throughout the Whiteboard presentation. What to Do Position your learners comfortably and dim the classroom lights. Begin playing the themed music in the background and display one slide at a time from the Resource 1: Waking the Senses. Each slide has an image that focuses on one sense: sight, sound, smell, touch or taste. Encourage your learners to participate in the following activities and photograph or record their reactions.
