Alexis Ferguson

Lesson 1
Daily Topic: Sound
Subject: Science
Materials needed: Computer for each student, printer, musical
instruments
Objectives: Students will be able to define sound and differentiate
between high/low pitch and loud/soft sound. Students will also be able
to create an online graphic organizer.
Common Core Standards: PS-E-C1 Demostrate how sound is made
in a variety of ways, PS-E-C1 Descibe and demonstrate the volume of
sound
Procedures: Make different sounds via musical instruments. Make the
sounds loud and soft and be sure to use high and low sounding
instruments. Explain that the instruments are making sounds. Give the
students an opportunity to play the instruments. Explain how we hear
sound because of waves. Explain wavelength and frequency. Explain
how this relates to pitch and volume.
Play BrainPopJr video on sound (technology activity from teacher). For
follow up, do the easy quiz and the hard quiz. (the hard quiz is aimed
towards gifted students but can be done as a whole class). Students
will raise hands for the questions in order to obtain a majority vote.
Discuss sounds that students may hear at home, at school, or in an
emergency.
Take students outside and have them record the different sounds they
hear.
Upon entering the classroom/computer lab, assign each student to a
computer. Have the students go to www.popplet.com and click on try it
out (student completed technology activity). Have the students create
a graphic organizer. In the center, it should read Sounds I hear around
school, at home, and during an emergency. Around he center block,
students should have the different sounds they heard outside and then
include at least 3 sounds they hear at home and 3 sounds they would
hear in an emergency. The students will need at least 10 sounds.
Students will then print out the graphic organizer to turn in for a grade.

As students are finishing, ask questions such as, What is sound?

What pitch does a high frequency wave have? What pitch does a
low frequency wave have?, etc., in order to determine that students
understand what was taught today.
Have students write down one thing they learned today, one thing they
liked about the lesson and one thing did not like about the lesson to
turn in as they exit the classroom or as they transition into the next
period. Encourage students to write something they do not understand
as well.
Accommodations: Resource students will have extended work time,
additional assistance, and a volunteer student helper to assist them.
Non-Native English Speaker will be instructed via google translate and
will receive extended time. Gifted students will be presented with the
hard quiz and prompted by higher order thinking questions.