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Science 4
(Properties and characteristics of sound)

Performance standard
 Demonstrate conceptual understanding of properties/characteristics of
light, heat and sound
Content standard
How light, heat and sound travel using various object
Learning competencies
Investigate properties and characteristics of light and sound S4FEIIIh-5
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the pupils will be able to :
a. Identify how sound travels in different materials;
b. Explain how they are produce, transmitted, and propagated;
c. Understand the different characteristics of sound.

II. Subject Matter

Quarter 4: Lesson 54-55
a. Topic: investigating the properties and characteristics of sound
References: MELC Grade 4 S4FE-IIIh-5
Science Learner’s material (Science 4) pp. 216-226
b. Materials: PowerPoint Presentation and laptop Instructional materials
c. Process skills: Observing, describing, comparing and measuring
d. Values Integration:
 TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

A. PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES

1. Prayer
“Let us pray first. Sacrlit can you lead the Opening Prayer
“Yes, Teacher.”
prayer’’ Dear lord

Amen.

2. Greetings

Good morning class, Good morning teacher.

How are you? We’re good teacher.

That’s nice to hear.

3. Checking of attendance
Is everybody present today? Yes, teacher! We’re glad to say that no one
That’s glad to hear! is absent today.

4. Classroom management
Please pick up all the pieces of paper and
candy wrapper under your chair and throw
it in the trashcan and arrange your chair
and sit properly.

5. Recalling of Classroom Rules

Before we proceed, make sure that you

are in a proper seat.
So here are our classroom rules that
everyone should always follow:
 1) Raise your hand if you know the Yes teacher!
answer.
2) Listen when the teacher is talking.
3) Follow every instruction of your
teacher.

Is that clear class?

Yes, teacher.
Very good!

B. Engagement activities
1. Review
Game. Passing the ball, the pupils will pass
the ball. If the music stops and whoever holds
the ball, he/she will answer the given question.
 What is the main source of heat and light?
That’s correct! Teacher, the sun is the main source of heat
and light.
 Why is the light important to living things?
Very Good! Teacher, light is very important to living
things because it provides vitamin D and
 Why is there a need to open our doors warm us.
and windows widely?
Nice answer! To allow more light to pass through.
 What do you think would likely to happen
if there would be no sun to give heat and
light to the Earth?
Teacher, no living things can exist on Earth.
Awesome!
 Can you give me an example of instrument
that produce light? Teacher, Flash light
That’s great!

C. Motivation
“Class let’s have an activity.”
 “This is called How Good Is Your Hearing?”

“I need 5 volunteer to please come in front

and follow my instructions.”

Procedure:
Blindfold a volunteer.

Some of the students will stand forming a

circle around the volunteer.

The students will take turn making gentle

oises, such as a clap, a click of the fingers,
a whisper or a quiet call. (Five students will go in front and do
the activity.)
After each sound, the person with the blin

Fold should point to where

they think the sound is coming from.

5. Try it again and this time with a cotton

ball on the ears of the blindfolded
volunteer.

6. Repeat steps 3 and 4.

“What have you noticed or observed on
this activity?”
“Sir, we have noticed that even if you
“Okay, very good.” cannot see, you can still locate the
“What else do you observe?” where the sound comes from.”

“Okay, very good.”

D. Lesson Proper “Sir, if we cannot see and hear it’s

“First let us know the definitions of some hard to tell where the sound comes
of the difficult terms.” from.”
 vacuum – an empty space in which
there is no air or other gas
  larynx – part of the throat that
contains the vocal cords
 frequency – the number of
occurrences of a repeating event per (students read)
unit of time
 audible – loud enough to be heard
“Now class, what is sound?”
“Sound is a longitudinal wave created
“Sound is also called a pressure wave because it by vibrating objects capable of
consists of a series of high and producing a sensation in our auditory
low pressure regions.” system. It requires medium to
propagate and it cannot travel in a
Production of Sound “The source of sound is any vacuum. ”
vibrating object. The vibration of the vocal
chords in the larynx produces human voice and
also animals.”

The Audible Range

“The audible range of frequency for humans is
from 20 – 20 000 Hz.”
“Animals have different audible range.”

Example :
Dog can hear from 50 – 45000 Hz
Cat can hear from 45-85000 Hz
Bats are essentially blind but can hear up to
120 000 Hz. “Sir, infrasound are sounds whose
frequencies are lower
“What is infrasound?”
than 20 Hz.”
Sources of infrasonic

Natural events: avalanches, earthquakes,

volcanoes, waterfalls, calving of icebergs,
meteors, and lightning

Animal communication: whales, elephants,

hippopotamuses, rhinoceros, giraffes,
alligators “Sir, ultrasound are sounds with
frequencies higher than
“What is ultrasound, class?” 20 000 Hz.”
“Anyone?”

“Yes, correct. Ultrasound are used by some

animals like bats (Echolocation), insects, dogs,
cats, and dolphins.
Imaging is the most common use of ultrasound
in medicine.”

“Now let’s go to Characteristics of Sound.” “Sir, Pitch refers to the highness and
“There are 3 characteristics: pitch ,loudness lowness of a sound. It depends on
and quality “ the frequency of the sounding object.”
”What is pitch?”

“Yes, you are correct.”

“According to the basic wave equation, a
high frequency sound gives rise to a short
wave and a low-frequency sound, to a long
wave. Hence, a high-pitched sound must
be a high frequency sound consisting of
short waves and a low itched sound must “Sir, Loudness refers to the loudness
be a low frequency sound consisting of long and softness of a sound. It is closely
associated with intensity. Greater
waves.”
intensity means louder sound.”
“What is loudness?”

“Correct, the human ear can tolerate a wide

range of intensities. The faintest sound that we
can hear is called threshold of hearing.
The loudest tolerable but painful sound is
called the threshold of pain.

“The unit of sound intensity level is bel

(B) .In honor of Alexander Graham Bell, the
inventor of the telephone.”
“A bel is a large unit most of the time we
use the smaller unit which is called decibel
(dB).”
1B = 10dB
“Here is a table of the Intensity Levels of
Common Sounds”
Sound Levels of different sound source

Source of sound
(dB)
Level
Threshold of pain
Amplifiedrockmusic
Old subway train
Average factory
Busy street traffic
Normal
conversation
Close whisper
Normal breathing
Threshold of
hearing

D. Generalization
What are the two kinds of nouns that we
have discussed?

Very good!

What is Proper Noun?

What is Common Noun?

 Proper Nouns always begin with…?

How about the common noun? Common

nouns always begin with…?

You are all very good!

Give yourselves 5 big claps!

E. Application

The teacher will group the class into three

groups, each group are given three minutes
to construct sentences using those
nouns/words in envelope.

F. EVALUATION
PART I: NOUN MATCH
Direction: Match the proper noun with its common noun. Write the letter
before the number.

PROPER NOUN COMMON NOUN

___1. Valentine’s Day a. boy

___2. China b. country
___3. Mr. Kim c. hospital
___4. Honda d. car
___5. Science e. events
f. subject

PART II: IDENTIFICATION

 Direction: Identify the underlined noun of each sentence. Write PN if it’s
proper noun and CN if it’s common noun.
___6. My favorite Disney princess is Cinderella.
___7. I have a dog named Bruno.
___8. We went to the mall yesterday.
___9. I received a bag as a present during holiday season.
___10. Teacher Megan gave us great feedback after our presentation.

V. ASSIGNMENT:
DIRECTION: Do an advance reading in