Unit Plan Calendar

8/14/2019 Unit Plan Calendar

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Mon, Feb 9

Tue, Feb 10

Lesson 1: (30-40 minutes) Searching for SoundObjective: Heighten awareness of and attention to sounds, recognizesounds originate from a source, and develop detailed and accuratedescriptions of sound.Overview: Children focus on listening carefully and making detaileddescriptions of sound as they become sound detectives who searchfor, identify, and describe in their surroundings.Materials: Heavy book to drop, chart paper to make list of sound

related terms, pencil to tap to produce sound demo., science notebook

pg 2 and 3.

Wed, Feb 11

Thu, Feb 12

Lesson 2: (30-40 minutes) What makes sound?Objective: Understand that vibration is a regular back and forthmotion, identify that sounds are produced by vibrations.Overview: During a science talk, children explore their ideas abouthow sound is produced. They learn what a vibration is, and that allsound are produced by vibrations. They generate a variety of sounds

by making different materials vibrate.Materials: Center 1: roasting pan and spoon Center 2: 5 rubberbands (assorted sizes) Center 3: plastic bottles (one per student withnames on them) Center 4: 2 rulersOther materials: chart paper to make a sound is vibration chart, 1meter/yard sticks for sensory observations, class set of class safetygoggles, sound science notebook pg 4, sound assessment 2


2/12

Lincoln's Birthday

Fri, Feb 13


3/12

Mon, Feb 16President's Day

Tue, Feb 17

Lesson 3: (30-40 minutes) Sounds travels through many thingsObjective: Recognize that sound travels through air and othermaterials. Deduce, as a result of experimentation that sound travelsthrough some materials better than others.Overview: Children establish that sound travels through air. Theyexperiment with sound traveling through many different materials.

They conduct tests to discover that sound travels through somesubstances better than others.Materials: For Pencil experiment- foam pad, plastic lid, roasting pan,

slide whistle, chart paper to record results, pencils, pillow, desk,

science notebook page 5 and 6, sound assessment 3

Wed, Feb 18

Thu, Feb 19

***Field Trip: Hands on Museum: Will focus on sound centers and

information during field trip.


4/12

Fri, Feb 20 ***Mid-winter break begins

Mon, Feb 23No School

Tue, Feb 24No School

Wed, Feb 25No school

Thu, Feb 26

No school

Fri, Feb 27No school


5/12

Mon, March 2 ***School Resumes

Tue, March 3

Lesson 4: (30-40 minutes) How sound travels.Objective: Learn that sound vibrations can cause vibrations in othermaterials, recognize that sound travels by way of vibrations in the airor in other materials.Overview: Children do an activity that demonstrates how the vibrationof a sound source can cause vibrations of other materials. They usethis activity as the basic explanation and discussion of how soundtravels.Materials: 22 medium paper cups, 11 pepper packets, plastic wrap,

rubber bands, pencils to tap on cups, sound science notebook pg 7,

sound assessment 3

Wed, March 4


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Thu, March 5

Lesson 5: (30-40 minutes) Sound through a string.Objective: Discover that sound vibrations can be transmitted througha cup-and-string telephone, find ways to affect the transmission ofsound vibrations.Overview: Children continue to explore sound vibrations and soundtransmissions as they send secret messages to one another usingcup-and-string telephones. While experimenting with their telephones,

the children find several ways to affect the transmission of theirmessages.Materials: cotton string (cut into 5 meter lengths), 22 medium paper

cups, 22 paper clips to secure string to cups, science notebook pg 8

and 9, sound assessment 3.

Fri, March 6 ***Kids Fair

Mon, March 9

Tue, March 10

Lesson 6: (30-40 minutes) Ears HearObjective: Learn about the main parts of the ear, recognize howsound travels into and through the ear, understand that the inner eartranslate sound vibrations into signals that get send to the brain.Overview: Children enact how sound through the three main parts of

the ear to better understand how ears hear. Student volunteers actout various parts of the ear.Materials: rubber bands to attach labels for ear parts to childrens

arms, string to represent auditory nerve and tiny hairs in the cochlea

prop, chair for the stir up to balance against during the enactment,

plastic bottle, overhead of ear bones, overhead of ear diagram,

science notebook page 10, teacher masters ear labels, sound

assessment 3


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Wed, March 11

Thu, March 12

Lesson 7: (30-40 minutes)Objective: Discover that sound vibrations can be transmitted througha cup-and-string telephone, find ways to affect the transmission ofsound vibrations.Overview: Part 1: Children listen to and compare sounds that havedifferent pitches and describe them as high, middle, or low. Childrenexplore various pitch stations.Part 2: Children explore ways of changing pitch using a variety of

sound-producing materials. They identify which parts vibrate to makea sound, and reflect on the relationship between vibration and pitch.Materials: plastic bowls and chopsticks for drums, PVC tubes of

different lengths to experiment with pitch, rope, rubber bands of

assorted sizes, rulers, slide whistle, trash bags, chart paper, chimes,

glass jars, meter stick, plastic tub, science notebook pages 11-14,

sound assessment 1 and 2.

***Videotape lesson andwrite extended lessonplan

Fri, March 13***continue lesson 7 if not enough time Thursday.

Mon, March 16


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Tue, March 17

Lesson 8: (30-40 minutes) Exploring VolumeObjective: Investigate ways to change volume by hitting, blowing, orstrumming materials harder or softer, investigate ways to amplifysounds by adding a sound box of sound tube, distinguish betweenpitch and volume and use appropriate descriptors for each, considerthe relationship between volume and the size of vibrations.Overview: Children experiment with changing the volume of sounds

by tapping, blowing, or strumming a variety of materials harder orsofter, and amplifying sounds with a sound box and sound tubeThey identify materials that vibrate to make a sound, and consider therelationships between vibration and volume.Materials: chopsticks to tap to make sound, rubber bands (large size)

to pluck to make sound, cardboard boxes to make sound boxes, paper

to make sound tubes., sound science notebook page 15, sound

assessment 1, 2, and 6.

Wed, March 18

Thu, March 19

Lesson 9: (30-40 minutes) Designing Musical InstrumentsObjective: Explain how a homemade instrument will vibrate toproduce sound, and describe how to change the pitch and volume of aplanned instrument.Overview: Children apply their knowledge of sound and vibration byusing a variety of common materials to design percussion, wind, orstringed instruments. They plan and draw pictures of their designs,and then explain how their instruments will work. The instrumentsneed to be able to change pitch and volume.Materials: Various recycled materials from scrap box and home to

make instruments (beans, tape, string, chopsticks, cups, bowls,

popcorn kernels, dowels, electrical tape, nylon, trash bags, popcicle

sticks, masking tape, tins, aluminum, boxes, etc. Science notebookpages 16-20, sound assessment 4.


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Fri, March 20

Mon, March 23***Multi-Cultural Day

Tue, March 24

Lesson 10: (30-40 minutes) Building a musical instrumentObjective: Experiment with different materials to determine how tobuild a stringed, percussion, or wind instrument that can change pitchand volume.Overview: Children experiment with using various materials to buildthe musical instrument they designed in the previous lesson. Theyredesign their instruments, if necessary, and discuss any problemsthey have implementing their designs.

Materials: bags or boxes t o store supplies for instruments inprogress, labels, science notebook pages 17-19 and 21-24, sound

assessment 2 and 4.

***Videotape lesson andwrite expanded lessonplan

Wed, March 25


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Thu, March 26

Lesson 11: (30-40 minutes) Refining musical instrumentsObjective: Evaluate whether a building buddys self-designed musicalinstrument meets the project criteria, refine or redesign musicalinstruments as needed, be able to explain the parts of their instrumentthat vibrates to produce sound and how the instrument changes pitchand volume, and become adept at changing the pitch and volume of aself-designed instrument.

Overview: Children work with a building buddy to evaluate, refineand, if necessary, redesign their musical instruments.Materials: cotton string (cut into 5 meter lengths), 22 medium paper

cups, 22 paper clips to secure string to cups, science notebook pg 8

and 9, sound assessment 3.

Fri, March 27

Mon, March 30

***Students write invitation to their family inviting them to their concert

and celebration on the morning of Wednesday, April 8th.

Tue, March 31***Field trip to the Natural Science Museum


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Wed, April 1

Thu, April 2Continue Lesson 11 (Students complete musical instruments)

Fri, April 3

Mon, April 6

Tue, April 7


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Wed, April 8

Lesson 12: (60 minutes) Sharing Instruments with peers and parentsObjective: Describe the sources of vibrations that produce the soundin a self-designed instrument, show and explain how to change thepitch and volume of a self-designed instrument.Overview: Children demonstrate the musical instruments theydesigned and built to Kindergarten class. They explain what parts oftheir instruments are vibrating to produce sound and then demonstrate

and explain how to change the pitch and volume. The children alsoreflect on the design and building process, describing the problemsthey encountered and evaluating how well their instruments meet theinitial design criteria. Families and students also celebrate thecompletion of their musical instruments with treats from teachers andvolunteers.Materials: Students musical instruments. FAMILIES INVITED!

***Video tape lesson andwrite extended lessonplan

Thu, April 9

Fri, April 10

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