Scarlett Hammett - Final Project SCI3671

**This compilation of lessons is designed for prekindergarten children using the kindergarten standards as a guide.

Essential Question: What is Sound ? Objectives: Grade K ALCOS 3.) Relate a variety of sounds to their sources, including weather, animal, and transportation sounds. Grade K ALCOS 7.) Classify objects using the five senses. Grouping objects according to color, shape, size, sound, taste, smell, texture, and temperature National Academy of Sciences NS.K-6.2 PHYSICAL SCIENCE As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop understanding of: o Properties of objects and materials o Position and motion of objects o Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism

Scarlett Hammett - Final Project SCI3671 Key Facts: 1. We hear sounds when items vibrate. Vibrate means that a material moves back and forth or up and down. 2. Sound travels through air, solids and liquids. Sound must have a material in order to move from one place to another.

Activities: 1. The students will learn a song about sound. Vibration will be introduced. Vibration causes sound. Students will put their hands around their throats to feel the vibrations as they sing. 2. Sound travels in waves. Students will play with a slinky to demonstrate a sound wave. The students will also observe a shallow plate of water after an object is dropped and a tuning fork touches the plate. The students will see sound waves. 3. The students will use the interactive whiteboard activity for two activities: to learn about different instrument sounds and to categorize different sounds by listening and determining if it is a loud sound or a quiet sound. Musical Instruments 4. Students will listen to various transportation sounds from youtube with the video hidden. The students will identify the various objects heard. Transportation sounds 5. Students will listen to sounds in the forest. The students will identify various animals heard. Sounds in the forest 6. The students will keep a picture journal of the different sounds they hear throughout the day by drawing a picture and writing loud or soft.

Scarlett Hammett - Final Project SCI3671 7. At the end of the unit on sound, the students will choose to make one of the following instruments: a guitar using a tissue box and rubber bands, a drum using empty containers and decorating , a kazoo using an empty toilet tissue roll, wax paper, and a rubber band, or maracas out of empty toilet tissue rolls filled with a choice of rice or dried beans.

Literature Connections

Connection: Zoom! Zoom! by Robert Burleigh This book is filled with sounds heard in a city.

Connection 2: Tap, Tap, Boom, Boom!

Scarlett Hammett - Final Project SCI3671 by Elizabeth Blumie

This story is filled with the sounds of a thunderstorm rolling in.

Connection 3: Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle
This story mimics all the sounds of various zoo animals.

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