Our last type of energy we talked about in science was sound!
Monday, we watched our sound BrainPOP and talked about what sound is and how it is made. We even talked about volume, pitch, sound waves and felt how different pitches and volumes made our vocal chords vibrate!
Wednesday (we skipped Tuesday because it was Veteran's Day) we did a sound lab in our science journals. The kids cut out and glued window flapped papers into their science journals (which is not an easy thing to do, I was impressed!) and we played a Guess That Sound game.
I put a folder up and had 8 different objects behind it. One at a time I dropped an object and the kids had to try and guess which object made the sound. They put their guess on the front window flap. Once we did all of the sounds we went back and I told them the answers. They put the right answers inside the window flap. They had the best reactions when they found out they guessed right!
Every time I would drop an object I would say "OK ... don't move." And the kids started running to the middle of the room and making goofy poses without moving. Have I mentioned how much these kiddos crack me up??
Thursday was ... INSTRUMENT DAY!!! I brought my acoustic guitar, bass guitar and keyboard from home and we looked at how they each make sound. Once we talked about the different volumes and pitches they could make, I let the kids come up one at a time and strum a bass guitar string to see it vibrate.
We may have some future musicians in our class!
To recap our lesson, and make sure everyone knew what sound energy was and where it comes from, the kids drew 3 pictures of examples of sound energy. We agreed on 1 example and did it together on the board.
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| Keyboard, scream, dog |
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| keyboard, drum, guitar |
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| keyboard, scream, dog |
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| keyboard, scream, turkey |
