Feb 9, 2009 - Feb 13, 2009

Mon, Feb 9

Lesson 1: (30-40 minutes) Searching for Sound

Tue, Feb 10
Objective: Heighten awareness of and attention to sounds,
recognize sounds originate from a source, and develop detailed and
accurate descriptions of sound.

Overview: Children focus on listening carefully and making

detailed descriptions of sound as they become “sound detectives”
who search for, identify, and describe in their surroundings.

Materials: Heavy book to drop, chart paper to make list of sound

related terms, pencil to tap to produce sound demo., science
notebook pg 2 and 3.

Wed, Feb 11

Thu, Feb 12 Lesson 2: (30-40 minutes) What makes sound?

Lincoln's Birthday Objective: Understand that vibration is a regular back and forth
motion, identify that sounds are produced by vibrations.

Overview: During a science talk, children explore their ideas

about how sound is produced. They learn what a vibration is, and
that all sound areproduced by vibrations. They generate a variety
of sounds by making different materials vibrate.

Materials: Center 1: roasting pan and spoon Center 2: 5 rubber

bands (assorted sizes) Center 3: plastic bottles (one per student
with names on them) Center 4: 2 rulers

Other materials: chart paper to make a sound is vibration chart, 1

 meter/yard sticks for sensory observations, class set of class
safety goggles, sound science notebook pg 4

Fri, Feb 13
 Feb 16, 2009 - Feb 20, 2009

Mon, Feb 16
President's Day ***Professional Development Day

Lesson 3: (30-40 minutes) Sounds travels through many things

Tue, Feb 17
Objective: Recognize that sound travels through air and other
materials. Deduce, as a result of experimentation that sound
travels through some materials better than others.

Overview: Children establish that sound travels through air. They

experiment with sound traveling through many different
materials. They conduct tests to discover that sound travels
through some substances better than others.

Materials: For Pencil experiment- foam pad, plastic lid, roasting

pan, slide whistle, chart paper to record results, pencils, pillow,
desk, science notebook page 5 and 6

Wed, Feb 18

Thu, Feb 19
***Field Trip: Hands on Museum: Will focus on sound centers and
information during field trip.

Fri, Feb 20
***Mid-winter break begins
 Feb 23, 2009 - Feb 27, 2009

No School
Mon, Feb 23

No School
Tue, Feb 24

No school
Wed, Feb 25

Thu, Feb 26 No school

 No school
Fri, Feb 27

March 2, 2009 - March 6, 2009

Mon, March 2
***School Resumes

Lesson 4: (30-40 minutes) How sound travels.

Tue, March 3
Objective: Learn that sound vibrations can cause vibrations in
other materials, recognize that sound travels by way of vibrations
in the air or in other materials.

Overview: Children do an activity that demonstrates how the

vibration of a sound source can cause vibrations of other
materials. They use this activity as the basic explanation and
discussion of how sound travels.

Materials: 22 medium paper cups, 11 pepper packets, plastic wrap,

rubber bands, pencils to tap on cups, sound science notebook pg 7,

Wed, March 4
 Lesson 5: (30-40 minutes) Sound through a string.
Thu, March 5
Objective: Discover that sound vibrations can be transmitted
through a cup-and-string telephone, find ways to affect the
transmission of sound vibrations.

Overview: Children continue to explore sound vibrations and sound

transmissions as they send secret messages to one another using
cup-and-string telephones. While experimenting with their
telephones, the children find several ways to affect the
transmission of their messages.

Materials: cotton string (cut into 5 meter lengths), 22 medium

paper cups, 22 paper clips to secure string to cups, science
notebook pg 8 and 9

Fri, March 6
***Kids Fair

March 9, 2009 – March 13, 2009

Mon, March 9

Tue, March Lesson 6: (30-40 minutes) Ears Hear

10 Objective: Learn about the main parts of the ear, recognize how
sound travels into and through the ear, understand that the inner
ear translate sound vibrations into signals that get send to the
brain.

Overview: Children enact how sound through the three main parts
 of the ear to better understand how ears hear. Student
volunteers act out various parts of the ear.

Materials: rubber bands to attach labels for ear parts to

children’s arms, string to represent auditory nerve and tiny hairs
in the cochlea prop, chair for the “stir up” to balance against
during the enactment, plastic bottle, overhead of “ear bones”,
overhead of “ear diagram”, science notebook page 10, teacher
masters “ear labels”
Wed, March
11

Thu, March Lesson 7: (30-40 minutes)

12 Objective: Discover that sound vibrations can be transmitted

through a cup-and-string telephone, find ways to affect the
transmission of sound vibrations.

Overview: Part 1: Children listen to and compare sounds that

have different pitches and describe them as high, middle, or low.
Children explore various pitch stations.

Part 2: Children explore ways of changing pitch using a variety of

sound-producing materials. They identify which parts vibrate to
make a sound, and reflect on the relationship between vibration
and pitch.

Materials: plastic bowls and chopsticks for drums, PVC tubes of

different lengths to experiment with pitch, rope, rubber bands of
assorted sizes, rulers, slide whistle, trash bags, chart paper,
chimes, glass jars, meter stick, plastic tub, science notebook
pages 11-14,
***continue lesson 7 if not enough time Thursday.
Fri, March 13
 March 16, 2009 - March 20, 2009
Mon, March
16

Tue, March Lesson 8: (30-40 minutes) Exploring Volume

17 Objective: Investigate ways to change volume by hitting, blowing,

or strumming materials harder or softer, investigate ways to
amplify sounds by adding a sound box of sound tube, distinguish
between pitch and volume and use appropriate descriptors for
each, consider the relationship between volume and the size of
vibrations.

Overview: Children experiment with changing the volume of

sounds by tapping, blowing, or strumming a variety of materials
harder or softer, and amplifying sounds with a “sound box” and
“sound tube” They identify materials that vibrate to make a sound,
and consider the relationships between vibration and volume.

Materials: chopsticks to tap to make sound, rubber bands (large

size) to pluck to make sound, cardboard boxes to make sound
boxes, paper to make sound tubes., sound science notebook page
15
Wed, March
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Thu, March Lesson 9: (30-40 minutes) Designing Musical Instruments

19 Objective: Explain how a homemade instrument will vibrate to

produce sound, and describe how to change the pitch and volume
 of a planned instrument.

Overview: Children apply their knowledge of sound and vibration

by using a variety of common materials to design percussion, wind,
or stringed instruments. They plan and draw pictures of their
designs, and then explain how their instruments will work. The
instruments need to be able to change pitch and volume.

Materials: Various recycled materials from scrap box and home to

make instruments (beans, tape, string, chopsticks, cups, bowls,
popcorn kernels, dowels, electrical tape, nylon, trash bags,
popciclesticks, masking tape, tins, aluminum, boxes, etc. Science
notebook pages 16-20

Fri, March 20

March 23, 2009 – March 27, 2009

Mon, March
***Field Trip to Natural Science Museum
23
***Multi-Cultural Day

Tue, March Lesson 10: (30-40 minutes) Building a musical instrument

24 Objective: Experiment with different materials to determine how

to build a stringed, percussion, or wind instrument that can change
pitch and volume.

Overview: Children experiment with using various materials to

build the musical instrument they designed in the previous lesson.
 They redesign their instruments, if necessary, and discuss any
problems they have implementing their designs.

Materials: bags or boxes t o store supplies for instruments in

progress, labels, science notebook pages 17-19 and 21-24
Wed, March
25

Thu, March Lesson 11: (30-40 minutes) Refining musical instruments

26 Objective: Evaluate whether a building buddy’s self-designed

musical instrument meets the project criteria, refine or redesign
musical instruments as needed, be able to explain the parts of
their instrument that vibrates to produce sound and how the
instrument changes pitch and volume, and become adept at
changing the pitch and volume of a self-designed instrument.

Overview: Children work with a “building buddy” to evaluate,

refine and, if necessary, redesign their musical instruments.

Materials: cotton string (cut into 5 meter lengths), 22 medium

paper cups, 22 paper clips to secure string to cups, science
notebook pg 8 and 9

Fri, March 27

March 30, 2009 – April 2, 2009

Mon, March
30
Tue, March Lesson 12: (60 minutes) Sharing Instruments with peers and
parents
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Objective: Describe the sources of vibrations that produce the
sound in a self-designed instrument, show and explain how to
change the pitch and volume of a self-designed instrument.

Overview: Children demonstrate the musical instruments they

designed and built. They explain what parts of their instruments
are vibrating to produce sound and then demonstrate and explain
how to change the pitch and volume. The children also reflect on
the design and building process, describing the problems they
encountered and evaluating how well their instruments meet the
initial design criteria.

Materials: Student’s musical instruments. PARENTS INVITED!

Wed, April 1

Thu, April 2

Fri, April 3