- 12 identical containers with lids (such as film canisters or yogurt containers)
- small objects (such as beads, beans, coins, pebbles, rice, or paper clips)
- different
- matching
- pair
- same
- shake
- sound
MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.3: With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or poem read aloud.
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:
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Joins in cooperative play with others and invites others to play.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 9: Recognize, describe, reproduce, extend, create, and compare repeating patterns of concrete materials.
EEC Infant and Toddler Guidelines:
PW50: The older toddler engages in a variety of physical activities.
Sound Detective Agency
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Skill Focus: Compare and Contrast, Listening and Speaking, Matching, Vocabulary
Encourage partners to fill containers so they have two matching shaker pairs. Each pair of shakers should contain different objects so children can make different sounds. For example, children may fill two containers with beads and two containers with coins. Each child should keep one of each pair of shakers.
Explain that children will become sound detectives as they listen for a sound and match it with their shaker. Have one child move to a different area and shake one of the shakers. Her/his partner becomes a detective and searches out the sound, moves to the sound, and shakes the matching shaker. Have partners switch roles. Allow children to make new shakers if time allows.