Loud, Medium, Quiet Sounds

• cardboard and plastic tubes and hoses
• plastic containers with lids (for example, food storage containers, yogurt containers, plastic eggs)
• small objects to place inside of the containers (for example, dried beans, beads, paper clips, pompoms, cotton balls, buttons, rubber bands, packing peanuts, tissue paper)

• different
• loud
• louder
• medium
• quiet
• same
• shake
• sound

MA Standards:

Mathematics/Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.3: Sort, categorize, and classify objects by more than one attribute.

Head Start Outcomes:

Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Recognizes cause and effect relationships.

MA Draft STE Standards:

Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS1.A: Describe, compare, sort and classify objects based on observable physical characteristics, uses, and whether it is manufactured as part of their classroom play and investigations of the natural and human-made world.
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms/LS1/3.B: Identify the 5 senses as ways animals (including themselves) gather different kinds of information about the world around them. [Structure and Function]
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms/LS1/3.C: Use their sense in their exploration and play to gather information. [Structure and Function]

PreK Guidelines:

Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Science and Technology/Living Things and Their Environment 15: Use their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to explore their environment using sensory vocabulary.
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 18: Manipulate a wide variety of familiar and unfamiliar objects to observe, describe, and compare their properties using appropriate language.