Light and Sound
Advantages Of Discovery
Rationale
We can learn scientific knowledge and skills through hands-on exploration and experimentation with design and technology.
Investigation Into
- The sources of light and the causes of shadows.
- How we use sound to represent objects and characters in stories.
- How we use design and technology to tell stories.
Essential Questions
- How can we make puppets and instruments?
- How can we use instruments, computers and our bodies to make sounds?
- How can we use sounds and shadows to tell a story?
Future Action
Your students will develop a curiosity about the science in their world. They will use knowledge about light and sound as they play with design and technology at home and at school. Your students will consider how their favourite movies and performances use sound effects to enhance the story, and how music in their world can communicate emotion.
Pretesting and Familiarisation
Concept of Discovery
Your students will discover how to make a rainbow in the classroom.
Your students will discover how to make a rainbow in the classroom.
Pretest
Your students will record what they know about light and sound.
Your students will record what they know about light and sound.
Immersion
Your students will experiment with making sounds to tell a story.
Your students will experiment with making sounds to tell a story.
Introducing the Unit
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Light and Sound Glossary
Your students will learn the glossary of words used in this learning sequence.
Your students will learn the glossary of words used in this learning sequence.
Habit of Mind: Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
Your students will create a badge for a skill that they have recently learnt to do.
Your students will create a badge for a skill that they have recently learnt to do.
Habit of Mind: Responding with Wonderment and Awe
Your students will be immersed into the habit of 'Responding with Wonderment and Awe'.
Your students will be immersed into the habit of 'Responding with Wonderment and Awe'.
Learning Opportunities
Traditional Music
Your students will be immersed into the sounds of traditional music around the world.
Your students will be immersed into the sounds of traditional music around the world.
Building Instruments: Percussion
Your students will learn how different objects move and make sounds depending on their size and shape as they build maracas.
Your students will learn how different objects move and make sounds depending on their size and shape as they build maracas.
Building Instruments: Woodwind
Your students will learn how sounds are made as air move around objects as they use straws to make a pan flute.
Your students will learn how sounds are made as air move around objects as they use straws to make a pan flute.
Building Instruments: Making a New Instrument
Your students will discover how to make sounds by experimenting with different materials.
Your students will discover how to make sounds by experimenting with different materials.
Building Instruments: Playing the Instrument
Your students will present the sounds that their instruments can make.
Your students will present the sounds that their instruments can make.
Shadow Experiment
Your students will learn about the sun as a source of light as they record how shadows move during the day.
Your students will learn about the sun as a source of light as they record how shadows move during the day.
Moving Puppets
Your students will learn how to create puppets with moving parts.
Your students will learn how to create puppets with moving parts.
Computer Sounds
Your students will experiment with using a computer to make sounds.
Your students will experiment with using a computer to make sounds.
Puppet Production: Selecting a Story
Your students will select a picture storybook for their puppet production.
Your students will select a picture storybook for their puppet production.
Puppet Production: Building a Theatre
Your students will work in group to build a cardboard box puppet theatre.
Your students will work in group to build a cardboard box puppet theatre.
Puppet Production: Shadows of a Story
Your students will create shadow puppets for their production.
Your students will create shadow puppets for their production.
Puppet Production: Sounds of a Story
Your students will consider what sounds that they can make to help tell their story.
Your students will consider what sounds that they can make to help tell their story.
Puppet Production: Rehearsal
Your students will rehearse for their production.
Your students will rehearse for their production.
Demonstration of Understanding
Puppet Production: Performance
Your students will perform their production for the rest of the class.
Your students will perform their production for the rest of the class.
Future Action
Future Action
Your students will create a badge for a skill they would like to learn as a result of what they have done during this unit.
Your students will create a badge for a skill they would like to learn as a result of what they have done during this unit.