How can I appeal to the five senses when teaching about the Loch Ness monster?!?

By paranominal
Published: October 24, 2009

Tagged with: Five Senses, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster

  1. johnandeileen2000 says:
    October 24, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Seeing. What a person thinks he sees may be totally incorrect.

  2. Yolanda says:
    October 24, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    okay so gather your information that you know:

    Where it lived: Lake
    How it was viewed: Terrifying, large, monster

    Ok I know that that is really basic information, but if you research it a bit more then you can come up with something great.

    That part only answers half of the question though.

    I would suggest you write about it as if you are seeing it up close for the first time… maybe like:

    The water parted revealing a large creature, silhouetted against the moon. I could smell it’s acrid breath as it came to peer at me, it’s glossy eyes gazing back sadly as if it had no friends. Then it came: the terrible cry, the one warning me of my impending doom. I grappled around the deck for a weapon, and found a broken fishing pole. With a burst of strength I sent the pole flying through its chest. It fell back into the water causing a tidal wave, which nearly made my boat sink. Fear gripped me and I felt bile in my throat. I had just witnessed a wonder of the world: The Loch Ness monster.

    Please don’t copy that, but at least it gives you an idea of what you could generate.

  3. i + i says:
    October 24, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Just play on the classes imagination — for example, hearing: speculate on what kind of noises the monster would make (do you think it would sound like an elephant given it’s supposed long neck, or maybe it has sonar like whales and dolphins? Have them listen to those sounds and think about it). You could also do the opposite and wonder if it has ears, what sounds deep in the loch might be like (maybe have people cover their ears, or try to make noise underwater). Do the same for the other sense — e.g., what might it smell like and/or does it have a sense of smell? For taste you could speculate about monster steaks or wonder if it would be “fishy” (pass around a can of tuna?), and/or does the monster need a sense of taste to survive (whatever it eats… vegetarian? little fishies?)… So on and so forth for the other senses.

  4. Carol Shimp says:
    October 24, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    We will never know everything about the universe and it’s creatures. The mind is a powerful thing. What age are you teaching. Ask your students if they believe Nessie is real or fake and why they came to that conclusion.