Temperature

Sensory integration

﻿Hi, my name is Anele, and I'm one of the occupational therapists. In today's lesson, we are going to look at interior section, your inside my body sense. And we're going to think about temperature. When we're feeling hot, and when we're feel in cold. We as therapists have tried to think of the best way to continue to support children, young people and their families. We will be exploring topic areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. Each lesson will have ideas and activities that can be carried out at home or in school. This information is to be used alongside any specific strategies or resources which have been given by your child's school or therapist. If you have any questions or would like help tailoring this to your child's needs, then please contact your local therapy service. In today's lesson, we are going to need coloured pens and paper, an ice cube, and a warm flannel. So pause the video here so that you can gather everything together, and then press play once you've got everything, and you're ready to start the lesson. Okay, so let's have a look at my inside-my-body sense. What is it that that means? So we have already looked at our heart rates, at our breathing. We've also looked at hungry and thirsty, and we've thought about our bladder. We've also looked at body feelings when we're feeling worried. And when we're feeling relaxed. And today we're going to focus on feeling hot and cold. So our body temperature is something that is regulated inside our brain. And there's something called the hypothalamus. And it's a very small bit in your brain that controls your temperature. So the normal human body temperature ranges usually between 36 and 37.5 degrees Celsius. And that is just our normal body temperature. And that's what we need to be healthy and to be alive. But the outside weather can affect our body temperature. So it can make us feel hot or cold. But also when we're feeling unwell, that can change our body temperature as well. So we can feel hot or cold when we are unwell. Our body temperature is amazing because what happens, our body will try and adjust and adapt, and regulate our body temperature. And that is where the hypothalamus comes into play. So when the outside weather is really hot or when our body is inside very hot water body, what our hypothalamus will do, it will send a message, and it will tell our blood to come closer to our skin because our blood contains a lot of heat. And when it comes closer to our skin, it will kind of evaporate, and it will try to get rid of that heat. We also know that when we are cold, we start to shiver. And that's one way that our body is trying to generate more heat from our muscles being very active. And did you know that when you lie, your nose gets warmer? I didn't know that. Some of us with sensory difficulties may feel hot when other people feel cold. It may be that even when you are feeling cold, you don't really want to wear a coat because you don't like the feel of the coat. You don't like what it looks like. It may also be that socks is really painful, and that you don't like the seams in the socks. And therefore you rather be barefoot or wear something like Crocs. In the summer, it may be that you don't like to wear thin layers because you like to feel snug. And therefore you may want to wear clothes in summer, even though you are feeling hot inside. So all of these things will affect our body temperature, and it will affect how comfortable we are. So let's have a look at what we can do today. Let's make a thermometer together. First of all, you're going to draw two columns. Chat your parent of carer about the different temperature words you want to include. Choose your colours for your chart. And you may want to add some words to describe what it feels like or look like when it is hot or cold. And you can add these to the chart. So some ideas that I've got is I've just used the word, scorching hot, quite hot like a warm flannel, comfortable, a bit chilly, very cold, ice block cold. And then if you want to add some more words, if you, for example, want to look at ice block cold, you could include words like absolutely freezing, really need a thick jacket today, snow, ice, maybe some hail, those kinds of words may have extra descriptions to your column in my thermometer. And then a little bit later, we are going to complete the second column, which is clothes I can wear to help my body temperature. So you're going to pause this video now to complete this task. And once you're finished press play, and we will carry on with this lesson. Brilliant, let's carry on now. You've just made your own thermometer and it looks great. So ask your parents or carer to help you use your thermometer chart. So, first of all, you're going to hold an ice cube in your hand. So place a mark on your thermometer that represents cold like an ice cube. Next, you going to take a flannel, and make sure that it's warm, but not scorching hot. And place a mark on your thermometer that represents hot like a warm flannel. Mark where you think it will be scorching hot. And now chat your parent or carer about what clothes you would wear, and maybe draw a picture alongside the colours of your thermometer. This will really help because it takes away all the guessing. So all you need to think about tomorrow morning is how hot or how cold it is, and then you can have a look next in the next column to see what clothes would be good to wear on a day. So pause the video here to complete your task. And then when you finished press play, and we will carry on with this lesson. Brilliant, you can try out your thermometer tomorrow. Well done, you did great today. I hope you've enjoyed learning about temperature, and about your body, and how your body reacts to hot and cold. Share your work with Oak National. If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter tagging at OakNational, and hashtag learnwithOak.

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