You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Silent PowerPoint
- Sound sheets (5 per child)
Additional Resources
- Clipboards (1 per child)
- A gong (or similar instrument)
- Box of instruments (large and small – enough for every child to have one)
Sound walk
Science Year 4
This unit is part of
Year 4 Science Listen Up!
Objectives
Go on a ‘sound walk’ through the school and begin to think about how sound is made.
Science Objectives
i) Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.
Working Scientifically
- Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
- Use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Ask and answer questions about the sounds that can be heard and begin to consider how sounds are made.
Activities
- Consider which areas of the school will be quiet, which will be loud and which will have no sound at all.
- Walk around the school listening for different sounds.
- Begin to consider sound and how sounds are made.
- Understand the term ‘noise pollution’.
Investigation - exploring
Go on a ‘sound walk’ through the school and begin to think about how sound is made.
Vocabulary
Sound, listen, hear, ears, noise, loud, quiet, silent, vibrations