Small Group: High or Low?

Materials

recordings of high/low sounds (animal sounds, music sounds, sirens, horns, voices, etc.)

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.

MA Draft STE Standards:

Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.B: Apply their understanding in their play of how to change volume and pitch of some sounds.

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.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Recognizes cause and effect relationships.
Science Knowledge/Scientific Skills and Method: Uses senses and tools, including technology, to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.

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/Living Things and Their Environment 15: Use their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to explore their environment using sensory vocabulary.

Small Group: High or Low?

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

Play recordings of high and low sounds (animal sounds, music, sirens/horns, voices, etc.) for children.

Ask them to identify each sound as either a high pitch or a low pitch.
Continue discussing the sounds and whether they are high or low.
Help children distinguish between the pitch of each sound by repeating the sounds for them, emphasizing the pitch.