- recordings of children’s sound explorations
- What Is a Scientist? (book)
- sound
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.
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.
Talk Together: Sound Scientists
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Display the book What Is a Scientist? by Barbara Lehn. Say, This week you explored using different materials to make sounds. What things did you do that a scientist does when she or he is exploring the world?
- Page through the book and have children list activities such as asking questions, looking at details, using different senses, or other skills listed in the book. Help children by showing some of the videos you took during the week and pointing out examples for them.
Take It Further: Locate video of scientists who study sound or are using their sense of hearing during their investigations (for example, a scientist who studies birds listening to bird calls). Talk about what the scientists are doing in the video and how they are demonstrating the skills in the book What Is a Scientist? Ask children, How is this scientist using his senses, just like you?