- chart paper
- containers (empty), lids, tubes, boxes, bottles
- craft sticks or painter stirrers
- marker
- pencils (unsharpened; with erasers
- recorder and recordings of children’s sounds
- hear
- scrape
- sound
- tap
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.A: Investigate different sounds made by different objects and different materials and reason about what is making the sounds. [Cause and Effect]
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Science and Technology/Technology and Engineering 23: Explore and describe a wide variety of natural and man-made materials through sensory experiences.
Talk Together: Talk About Sounds
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Different objects make different sounds; An action has to happen to make a sound
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Display the basket of objects. Play back some of the sounds children made throughout the week. Ask questions such as,
- Which object(s) did you use to make the sound? Have children explore the materials.
- How did you make the sound? (tap, scrape)
- Do you think you would hear the same sound if you tapped on the tin can and on the cardboard roll?
- Have children explore and revisit their predictions.
Record children’s observations on chart paper.
English Language Learners: Whenever possible, demonstrate word meanings with gestures and facial expressions. Have children repeat the words tap and scrape and the gestures after you.