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Session 1 of 8
Look Carefully! 👀
Today we use our senses to find out about things.
This is the first thing every data scientist does!
🔍 Data Science for Young Minds · Grade 1
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What We Will Do Today
Our Plan
- 🎒 Mystery bag — feel without looking!
- 👀 Use our senses to observe
- 🏷️ Learn words to describe things
- 🤝 Partner activity — feel, describe, look
- 🐢 Brain break — slow animal walk
- ✏️ Draw and label what we noticed
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Mystery Time!
🎒 The Mystery Bag
Your teacher has a bag. Something is inside.
DO NOT LOOK YET! 🙈
Just reach in. What do you FEEL?
It is okay to just look if you do not want to reach in. Both ways are great! 👍
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Lesson 1
We Use Our Senses 🌟
When we observe, we use our senses on purpose and carefully.
🖐️ Touch
- Smooth or bumpy?
- Soft or hard?
- Big or small?
Observing is slow and careful. We pay attention!
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Lesson 2
Describing Words 🏷️
An attribute is one way to describe something.
We use attributes to tell about things!
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Color
red · blue · green · yellow
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Shape
round · square · pointy · flat
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Size
big · small · tiny · large
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Texture
smooth · bumpy · rough · soft
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Lesson 2
Same and Different 🔄
Two things can be the same in one way and different in another way!
🔵 Same color!
A blue button and a blue block are BOTH blue.
🔷 Different shape!
The button is round. The block is square. They are different shapes.
The same objects can be the same in some ways and different in others! 🌟
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Activity Time!
Partner Mystery Bag! 🤝
Work with your partner. Here is what you do:
- 🖐️ Partner A — reach in. Say 2 things you feel.
- ✏️ Partner B — draw what you imagine!
- 👀 Both — look inside. What more do you see?
- 🔄 Swap! Partner B reaches in next.
It is okay to just LOOK instead of touching. Both ways count! 👍
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Activity Helper
Words to Help You Describe 💬
Stuck? Try these!
Color words
- red · blue · yellow
- green · orange · white
- black · purple · pink
Touch words
- smooth · bumpy · rough
- hard · soft · squishy
- pointy · flat · round
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🐢
Brain Break — Slow Animal Walk!
Move like a slow turtle looking very carefully at the floor.
What do you NOTICE as you walk?
Then HOP like a bunny back to your seat! 🐰
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Debrief
What Did You Find? 🔍
- What did you feel first?
- Were you surprised when you looked?
- What could you feel but NOT see?
- What could you see but NOT feel?
Using senses together tells us MORE than using just one! 🌟
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Worksheet Time
Draw and Label ✏️
Pick ONE object from your bag.
- ✏️ Draw it in the big box
- 🏷️ Write or draw the COLOR
- 🏷️ Write or draw the SHAPE
- 🏷️ Write or draw the SIZE
- 🏷️ Write or draw the TEXTURE
You can draw a picture instead of writing a word — that is great too! 🎨
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Think About It
Observe vs. Guess 🤔
✅ Observe
- It IS round
- It IS blue
- It IS smooth
You can check — it is true!
❓ Guess
- It is pretty
- It is my favorite
- It is the best
Different people might say different things!
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Words We Learned
Our New Words 📚
Observe 👀
Look (or feel!) carefully and on purpose
Attribute 🏷️
One way to describe something — color, shape, size, texture
Describe 💬
Use words to tell what something is like
Same / Different 🔄
Same = alike in that way · Different = not alike
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Share!
Tell Us One Thing! 🗣️
"One word about what you noticed today."
You can:
- 🗣️ Say a word out loud
- ✋ Point to something on your worksheet
- ✏️ Draw a quick picture
All ways of sharing are great! 🌟
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Great Work! 🎉
Session 1 Done! ⭐
- ✅ We used our senses to observe things
- ✅ We learned attribute words — color, shape, size, texture
- ✅ We found things that are the same AND different
- ✅ We drew and labeled what we noticed
🔮 Next time — Session 2: We will put things into groups! We call that sorting. 🗂️
Tonight: find ONE thing at home and notice 2 things about it. Tell someone!