Explore additional ways to instill important values and lessons into family time or the classroom.
Incorporate STEAM Lessons & Principles
In a time when exposure to STEAM is critical for young children, teachers can use the story of Za Za’s Scent-Sational Super Power to help demonstrates key attributes of STEAM disciplines in a fun, yet approachable way. The stories introduce STEAM principles of:
- Blending Art & Science
- Creative problem solving
- Love of Learning
- Safe laboratory practices
Collaboration & Cooperation
In Za Za Spreads Sweetness, Za Za and her friends realize how much better their project could be if they work together and build off of each other’s ideas.
Introduce concepts of acceptance, patience and teamwork.
Promote Confidence & Perseverance
Za Za learns that new skills do not always come easy, they can often take practice. Her receptiveness to learning new lessons and incorporating constructive suggestions into her creative process, is a true confidence booster.
Za Za’s ability to believe in herself and pursue her desire to design something unique and special helps her persevere in her innovative pursuits.
Care & Kindness
Za Za Spreads Sweetness explores how care and kindness can bring individuals and communities closer together.
Za Za and her friends demonstrate empathy, sensitivity, and selflessness.
Appreciate the Connection of Emotions, Memory & Scent
Did you know that your sense of smell is working even before you are born? According to Rachel Herz, “Smell was the very first sense to evolve and is located in the same part of the brain that processes emotion, memory, and motivation.”
-The Scent of Desire
75% of all emotions generated every day are due to smell… Because of this, we are 100 times more likely to remember something we smell over something we see, hear or touch.
Since the olfactory nerve is directly linked to the part of the brain that monitors memories and emotions, scent affects mood, concentration, memory recall and emotion.
-Mood Media Scent Marketing Research
Help foster children’s curiosity around their senses, emotions and memories through the exploration of scent.
Smell & Taste Disorders
Did you know that not everyone’s sense of smell and taste are the same? Did you also know that some people’s senses are interwoven? Learn some new language surrounding the science of smell and taste.
Anosmia: The inability to smell
Ageusia: Loss of sense of taste
Hyposmia: Reduced sense of smell
Parosmia: A distortion of the sense of smell in the presence of a stimulus; a change in the normal perception of odors
Phantosmia: Smelling of an odor that is not present ‘phantom smells’
Synesthesia: A condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses.
Sources:
falkaromatherapy.com
ifthsense.org.uk
monell.org
thestana.org
