- cardboard tubes and hoses of different lengths
- camera (optional)
- small piece of paper for each child
- sound
- tube
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: Tube Talk
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds vary in three ways: volume (loud or soft), pitch (high or low), and timbre (quality); Sounds sound different when they travel through a hollow object
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Discuss with children the different ways they used tubes to change sounds. Talk about some of the observations they made while listening through tubes. Ask review questions such as,
- What happened to the sound when you covered one end of the tube?
- What happened when you moved the tube away from your ear? Did you hear a different sound?
- Were the sounds different when you listened through the cardboard tube and the plastic tube?
Tell children that today they are going to continue to explore with tubes, only this time they will talk and sing through the tubes.
Social Emotional Tip: Explain the importance of not shouting through the tube when you are near another person. Ask, Why do you think it is important not to shout through the tube?